Jimmy Kimmel says his longtime friends Ben Affleck and Matt Damon made a very generous offer at the start of the writers' strike. On the newly launched 'Strike Force Five' podcast featuring Kimmel, Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon, Seth Meyers and John Oliver, Kimmel revealed the duo offered to pay his staff's salaries for two weeks after his ABC late-night show, 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!', shut down in May.
00:00Jimmy Kimmel is saying his longtime friends Ben Affleck and Matt Damon made a very generous offer at the start of the writer's strike.
00:07On the newly launched Strikeforce 5 podcast featuring Kimmel, Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon, Seth Meyers and John Oliver all hosting a limited run podcast in the wake of the WGA and SAG Afterstrikes,
00:20Kimmel revealed the duo offered to pay his staff salaries for two weeks after his ABC late night show Jimmy Kimmel Live shut down in May.
00:28Kimmel, however, said he rejected the offer. I felt that that was not their responsibility.
00:33Kimmel also noted that Ryan Reynolds offered to give the live staff free Mint Mobile services for a year.
00:38Reynolds is an owner of Mint Mobile, which ended up being a sponsor of the podcast.
00:43Kimmel also revealed in the episode that he was considering retiring when the strike began.
00:47I was very intent on retiring right around the time where the strike started.
00:51And now I realize, oh yeah, it's kind of nice to work. You know, when you're working, you think about not working.
00:56For more on the Strikeforce 5 podcast, head to THR.com.
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