Late-Night Stars Take To The Stand-Up Circuit & Podcast Studios Amid Strikes
deadline.comWhat are all of the late-night stars up to right now? As The Late Show, The Tonight Show, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Late Night and The Daily Show were the first shows to be hit by the writers strike back in May, the hosts of those shows have not had the opportunity to give their hot takes on television in over three months – although the majority of them have all been regularly seen on picket lines across New York and LA.
Admittedly, the strike has largely been over the summer, when many of them would have been on hiatus, but it’s still interesting to see what they’ve been doing since having their desks taken away. “I hate being off,” Seth Meyers told Deadline in April. “My vacation is doing the show.
It is more fun than the beach. It is more fun than skiing. I’m done early enough to see my kids at night so it’s not this thing that like takes me away from my family, so there’s no upside to not doing the show.
I wish we did more weeks as it is now.” Talking of vacations, Meyers has launched a podcast about them with him brother, Josh Meyers.
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