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The late-night power players behind the new “Strike Force Five” podcast are temporarily losing two members for a special live on-stage event.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at Large Three of the “Strike Force Five” are taking their show on the road. Late night hosts Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon and Jimmy Kimmel will host a one-night-only event, dubbed “Strike Force Three,” at the Dolby Live at Park MGM in Las Vegas on Saturday, September 23 — marking the first time the trio have been on stage together at the same time. Colbert, Fallon, Kimmel, John Oliver and Seth Meyers recently launched the podcast “Strike Force Five,” as a way to help support the staffs of their respective shows.

Late-night staffs should see a few more dollars in their pocket after three of the major hosts are planning a Las Vegas extravaganza.

It’s been two weeks since the launch of “Strike Force Five”, the featuring late-night hosts Jimmy Fallon, Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel, Seth Meyers and John Oliver.

Following the release of a new Rolling Stone exposé, in which two current and 14 former staffers at “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” opened up about host Jimmy Fallon’s alleged erratic behaviour and the reported “toxic workplace” at the late-night show, multiple current producers and assistants at the show gave statements to ET saying that the article “misrepresents” their experiences in the same workplace.

Move over, Justice League and The Avengers. There’s a new group of superheroes in town, and they’re already making a splash.

Strike Force Five, alongside fellow late-night hosts Jimmy Fallon, Stephen Colbert, John Oliver and Seth Meyers.“I was very intent on retiring right around the time where the strike started,” Kimmel said. “And now, I realize, oh yeah, it’s kind of nice to work. You know when you are working, you think about not working.”Meyers, 49, then inquired, “C’mon, you are the Tom Brady of late night…you have feigned retirement….

“Strike Force Five” is a go.

Jimmy Kimmel found help in one of Hollywood’s strongest duos: Ben Affleck and Matt Damon.

Matt Damon and Ben Affleck are willing to open their wallets in order to aid many of Jimmy Kimmel‘s staff at Jimmy Kimmel Live.

Jimmy Kimmel just revealed he was about to retire from his late-night show until it was paused due to the WGA strike.

“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 Five, a podcast from the major late-night hosts.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Jimmy Kimmel claims he was ready to hang up his spurs as ABC’s late-night talk show host earlier this year — but the WGA writers strike changed his perspective. Kimmel made the revelation on the first episode of Spotify’s “Strike Force Five” podcast, which went live Wednesday (Aug.

Five of your favorite late night talk show hosts are teaming up for a good cause.

Television’s late-night shows have all gone dark since the Writers Guild of America voted to strike back in May, but now several of those hosts are joining forces for a new creative project that will raise money to help pay their out-of-work staffers.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Five rival late-night TV hosts — Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel, Seth Meyers and John Oliver — are teaming with Spotify for “Strike Force Five,” a limited-series podcast discussing the WGA writers strike, which is on the cusp of entering its fifth month. Proceeds from the podcast will go to staffers on each of their shows, which have been suspended because of the strike. “Strike Force Five” will launch Wednesday, Aug.

Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel, Seth Meyers, and John Oliver are launching a limited podcast series about their experiences navigating the writers and actors strike.

What are all of the late-night stars up to right now?

TV late-night comedy scribe Greg Iwinski, 38, was still only an aspiring writer when Hollywood writers held their landmark strike in 2007-2008.

Felipe Torres Medina, a writer on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, organized a comedy writers picket outside 30 Rock in New York that saw the cream of the late-night crop turn up to fight for a “fair” deal.

John Oliver digs deeper into the news and cultural phenomenons than seemingly any other show on the air.From the size of Donald Trump’s hands to Chuck E. Cheese’s pandemic side hustle to setting up a fake church for the tax benefits, Oliver has lifted the veil on topics far off the beaten path for nearly a decade.And now he’s taking it to the stage.From July 23 through Aug.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at Large Variety’s Awards Circuit Podcast hosts Michael Schneider, Clayton Davis, Emily Longeretta and Jazz Tangcay gathered on Wednesday, just hours after the Television Academy announced this year’s Emmy nominations, to dissect the news — from the big winners like “Succession,” to the shocking omissions (no Harrison Ford or Elizabeth Olsen), and then the nice surprises (wow, “Jury Duty”!). The nominations were telling on a number of fronts — including the current assessment that we may very well see a beat “Succession”/”Ted Lasso” dominance. Did the voting procedural changes help bring in a wider group of nominees? No. And will voters pick straight tickets of “Succession” and “Ted Lasso” nominees? Quite possible. Who will win the “SNL”/”Last Week Tonight with John Oliver” smackdown? What are our favorite faceoffs this year? (How can one pick between birthday celebrations for Norman Lear and Carol Burnett, for example?)

Jon Stewart may have replaced John Oliver in the Outstanding Talk Series category at the Emmys but HBO’s Last Week Tonight is still up for four awards.

Jon Stewart is back in the late-night Emmy race.

“Succession” and “The Last of Us” are facing Disney+’s “Andor,” AMC’s “Better Call Saul,” AMC’s “Interview with a Vampire,” Paramount+’s “The Good Fight,” HBO’s “The White Lotus” and Showtime’s “Yellowjackets.” As for individual acting achievements between the two leaders, both Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsay were nominated for “The Last of Us,” and Kieran Culkin, Sarah Snook and Jeremy Strong were nominated for “Succession.”As for comedies, nomination leader “The Bear” will be facing off against “Abbott Elementary” in Outstanding Achievement in Comedy. The ABC hit took home the top honor last year.

Late-night comedy writers are facing “oblivion” if the Writers Guild loses its eight-week-old strike, according to late-night comedy writer and WGA negotiating committee member Greg Iwinski, a former writer for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and Last Week Tonight with John Oliver.

Inside Amy Schumer returned to Paramount+ after six years for its fifth season – a season that Paramount was hoping could score an Emmy nomination to compete against the likes of SNL and Last Week Tonight with John Oliver.

Heidi Gardner has become one of the Saturday Night Live seniors after having joined the venerable NBC show in season 43.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at Large The decision to realign “variety talk” and “variety sketch” this year into “talk” and “scripted variety” didn’t do much to change that. If anything, it further narrowed the field, as perennial variety talk winner “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver” has now been kicked over to scripted variety. As a result, my colleague Clayton Davis counts only 14 series eligible for the outstanding talk nomination. And it’s not much better in scripted variety, where just 10 shows appear to be eligible.

Seth Meyers has become one of the elder statemen of late-night.

Reddit communities including some of its biggest, clicked into private mode June 12, meaning they’re not accessible to the broader public or even in some cases to members. The unrest, sparked by new app-developer fees, continue. But there’s been a twist, as images of John Oliver now populate the platform.

EXCLUSIVE: The late-night community is over the moon after it emerged that there will be five Emmy nominations this year.

Late-night comedy has been in reruns, or off the air entirely, since day one of the Writers Guild’s strike. But many of their current and former writers have banded together to put on a weekly YouTube show called Contract TK that satirizes the news, lampoons the company bosses, and promotes the goals of the strike, which is now in its 38th day.

One month into the writers strike, there’s little for a bystander to add about the issues, prospects or relative staying power of the opponents. Deadline’s reporters and contributors have done an admirable job on that score.

A group of high-profile writers including Julie Plec and new Station 19 showrunner Zoanne Clack opened up about the WGA strike and the main issues surrounding the walkout at the ATX Television Festival.

John Oliver will not be picking up his eighth straight Emmy for Outstanding Talk Series at this September’s gala.