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Jimmy Kimmel says that he was ready to retire from his late-night show before the writers' strike. The 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!' host shared the revelation during the first episode of the limited Spotify podcast 'Strike Force Five' which features Kimmel and his fellow late night hosts Jimmy Fallon, Stephen Colbert, John Oliver and Seth Meyers.
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00:00Jimmy Kimmel says that he was ready to retire from his late-night show before the writer's strike.
00:04The Jimmy Kimmel Live host shared the revelation during the first episode of the limited Spotify
00:09podcast Strike Force 5, which features Kimmel and his fellow late-night hosts Jimmy Fallon,
00:14Stephen Colbert, John Oliver, and Seth Meyers. Are you guys getting stir-crazy? Are you ready
00:20to go back to work? Because as you know, I was very intent on retiring right around the time
00:26where the strike started, and now I realize, like, oh, yeah, it's kind of nice to work. I mean,
00:33you know, when you are working, you think about not working.
00:35Myers was quick to doubt Kimmel.
00:37Kimmel, Kimmel, come on. You are the Tom Brady of late-night.
00:41Well, no, I think he-
00:42You have a feigned retirement.
00:44I'm Tom Brady without any rings, yes, or fingers.
00:49Was this, are we to take you at your word that you were seriously considering this?
00:53I really was. I think I told you that privately, right?
00:57Well, you're doing it publicly, right?
00:58Kimmel doubled down, saying he was very, very serious. He added that he likes getting the
01:02summer off from his show each year, but he likes it better when he's, quote,
01:05getting paid to get the summer off. If Kimmel had made the decision to retire before the strike
01:09was called, it would have been complicated, since he agreed to a three-year extension of his ABC show
01:14last year, which would bring the Emmy-nominated series through its 23rd season.
01:18On Wednesday, the five late-night hosts announced the newly launched podcast,
01:21which will benefit staff impacted by the ongoing strikes. It will consist of at least
01:2512 episodes with all five hosts participating. For more on this story, go to THR.com.
01:30For The Hollywood Reporter News, I'm Tiffany Taylor.
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