“What would happen if five of America’s top 11 most-beloved talk show hosts all talked on top of each other for an hour? You’re about to find out,” said Jimmy Kimmel in the opening of Strike Force …
“Would it be fair to say that in 2008 the hosts didn’t get along quite as well as we do?,” asked Oliver. “I know it’s an incredibly low bar but that was a sequence of dying marriages that they were engaged in.”
Kimmel was on air during the last writers strike, alongside David Letterman, Jay Leno, Conan O’Brien and Craig Ferguson. The ABC star said that all of the other hosts were “mad” that Letterman and Ferguson were able to go back first with their writers as a result of a side deal between Letterman’s Worldwide Pants and the WGA.
Meyers pointed out that podcast listeners would really feel the absence of writers and researchers, which all of the hosts have on their late-night shows. “You’ll realize how important it is for us to take care of them,” he said.“Ben Affleck and the despicable Matt Damon contacted me and offered to pay our staff for two weeks, a week each, they wanted to pay out of their own pockets. I did say no, but I felt that was not their responsibility,” he said.
He also said that Ryan Reynolds, who runs phone company Mint Mobile, which is one of the show’s sponsors, offered“This is like a vacation in the same way that a colonoscopy is like a nap,” joked Colbert.berated crowd members for butchering a question during the Q&A.
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