Colbert, Kimmel, Seth Meyers Roast Trump’s 215-Pound Claim
It’s been just about four months since late-night television went dark with the WGA strike. And with no end in sight to what developed into a joint strike with screen actors, America’s late-night hosts have seemingly been left with a lot of time on their hands.
While that might mean extra time for damage control for Jimmy Fallon in the wake of a damning report about The Tonight Show’s backstage culture, Fallon and the four other most prominent white guys on late-night TV—Jimmy Kimmel, Stephen Colbert, Seth Meyers, and John Oliver—recently joined forces for a podcast called Strike Force Five that aims to raise money for their show’s staff members as the strike wears on. Their combined star power has already rocketed the Spotify show to the top of the podcast charts.
But as charmingly chaotic as the first couple of episodes have been, Thursday’s third installment was the first time listeners really got a chance to hear the hosts take a stab at joking about some of the biggest news stories they’ve missed since May—albeit without the help of their striking joke writers.