Now that the writer’s strike is resolved, four of the big late-night talk shows hosted by Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel, Seth Meyers, and Stephen Colbert announced they’d be back on the air by Monday.
But so far as celebrity guests, it will be slim pickings as the AFTRA -SAG strike still continues.
Fallon, Kimmel, Meyers, Colbert, and Oliver had teamed up during the strike to launch a limited Spotify podcast series called Strike Force 5 with all proceeds going to out-of-work staff from the hosts’ respective shows. In typical (AKA: funny) fashion they announced their return with this statement:
Flash! Their mission complete, the founding members of Strike Force 5 will return to their network television shows this Monday 10/2 and one of them to premium cable on 10/1.’
‘Of course, in a greater sense, the Strike Force 5 will never end, because Strike Force 5 is not a place, Strike Force 5 is not a people, Strike Force 5 is barely a podcast…nay. Strike Force 5 is an idea. An idea that five men could talk on top of each other for 12 episodes, and maybe somebody would listen. As we say goodbye, we would like to thank all those somebodies. Truly, you were the heroes. We were mostly the heroes, but you were in there, too.’