Jimmy Kimmel attends World Premiere Of Netflix’s “Your Place Or Mine” at Regency Village Theatre on February 02, 2023 in Los Angeles, California.Photo:Frazer Harrison/Getty; Jon Kopaloff/Getty; Tim Mosenfelder/Getty
Frazer Harrison/Getty; Jon Kopaloff/Getty; Tim Mosenfelder/Getty
Jimmy Kimmelhas generous friends in Hollywood.
The late-night host, 55, joined fellow hostsStephen Colbert,Seth Meyers, Jimmy Fallon andJohn Oliveron the new podcast,Strike Force Five.
At one point, Kimmel said his longtime palsBen AffleckandMatt Damonoffered to pay hisJimmy Kimmel Live!staff’s salaries during the ongoingwriters’ strike.
“Ben Affleck and the despicable Matt Damon contacted me and offered to pay our staff for two weeks,” Kimmel said, the “despicable” being a reference tothe long-running joke feud between the pair.
“A week each, they wanted to pay out of their own pockets our staff,” Kimmel said of theGood Will Huntingstars, to which Fallon said in response that they are “good people.”
“I felt that that was not their responsibility,” Kimmel said, who turned down their offer.
The 11th annual “Jimmy Kimmel Live: After The Oscars” special airs live on Oscar Sunday, February 28, after the late local news EST/CST and at 10pm PST on Walt Disney Television.Randy Holmes/Disney General Entertainment Content via Getty
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Last month, Damon, 52, told theAssociated Pressat a red carpet event forOppenheimerin London just before the actors' strike that it was “unbelievably important” for the union to safeguard the actors’ interestsamid the strike.
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Ben Affleck and Matt Damon attend the “AIR” world premiere during the 2023 SXSW Conference and Festivals at The Paramount Theater on March 18, 2023 in Austin, Texas.Michael Loccisano/Getty
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“We got to protect the people who are kind of on the margins,” Damon said at the time. “26,000 bucks a year is what you have to make to get your health insurance, and there are a lot of people who residual payments are what carry them across that threshold. If those residual payments dry up, so does their health care, and that’s absolutely unacceptable.”
OnStrike Force FiveWednesday, Kimmel — host and executive producer ofJimmy Kimmel Live!, which he’s hosted since 2003 — also revealed he wasready to retirein wake of theWriters Guild of America (WGA) strikein May.
“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.”
“When you are working you think about not working,” he added.
Meyers asked: “Kimmel, c’mon, you are theTom Bradyof late night … you have feigned retirement… Are we to take you at your word?”
Kimmel replied, “I was serious. I was very, very serious,” also confessing that he likes to take summers off when he’s getting paid.
The production of late-night shows likeJimmy Kimmel Live!,The Tonight Show StarringJimmy Fallon,The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,Late Night with Seth MeyersandThe Daily Showhalted, with reruns being broadcast.
Fallon, Meyers, Colbert, Oliver and Kimmel announced the launch of their limited series on Tuesday, which explores the hosts commenting on “the Hollywood strikes and beyond.”
source: people.com
