Jimmy Kimmel was ‘very intent on retiring’ until this got in the way
nypost.comStrike 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….
Are we to take you at your word?” But “The Serious Goose” author stayed firm: “I was serious, I was very, very serious.” He then joked how he likes to have a summer hiatus every year and to “get paid” for it.
All late-night shows were forced to shut down in May when the Hollywood strike began. Thousands of film and TV writers have been heading to the picket lines across New York and California since late spring to fight for pay increases.Kimmel and the rest of his talk show bros created “Strike Force Five” as a response to the strike.“This past May, the hosts of five major late-night talk shows had an idea: to meet every week to discuss the complexities behind the ongoing Hollywood strikes,” a press release explained about the idea of the radio program. “What ensued was a series of hilarious and compelling conversations.”Proceeds from the podcast will be going to the staff on each of the late-night hosts’ shows who are out of work.
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