Late-night comedy’s 5 greatest hosts are starting a podcast. Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel, Seth Meyers, John Oliver and Jimmy Fallon will host Strike Drive 5, a weekly chat about “the complexities behind the continuing Hollywood strikes.” All proceeds will go to out-of-work employees from the hosts’ 5 discuss reveals.
“The hosts carry their distinctive insights, opinions, and humor to the present as they navigate the Hollywood strikes and past,” a Spotify weblog submit reads. The 5 comedians will take turns moderating the episodes. Spotify’s Megaphone is producing the sequence, and the streaming service is the podcast’s sole gross sales accomplice — however the sequence isn’t unique to the platform. “[It’s available on] Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts,” Meyers mentioned in a video Kimmel posted to X (previously Twitter). “However Spotify, you fucks,” Oliver aggressively deadpanned.
The sequence launches on August thirtieth (day 120 of the strike, as noted by TVLine). It’ll run for not less than 12 episodes.
The Writers Guild of America (WGA) and the Alliance of Movement Image and Tv Producers (AMPTP) have been at odds with out a lot discernible progress because the WGA started putting on Could 2nd. The WGA described the perimeters’ newest assembly final week as extra of a “lecture” than a negotiation. “We had been met with a lecture about how good their single and solely counteroffer was,” the WGA negotiating committee wrote to members. “However this wasn’t a gathering to make a deal. This was a gathering to get us to cave, which is why, not 20 minutes after we left the assembly, the AMPTP launched its abstract of their proposals. This was the businesses’ plan from the start — to not cut price, however to jam us. It’s their solely technique — to wager that we are going to activate one another.”
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