Setting apart their long-running feud, Jimmy Kimmel had good issues to report about Matt Damon for a change. On the surprisingly revealing first episode of Strike Pressure 5, Kimmel stated that Matt Damon and Ben Affleck provided to pay Kimmel’s writing employees for 2 weeks initially of the strike.
“Ben Affleck and the despicable Matt Damon contacted me and provided to pay our employees for 2 weeks, per week every, they wished to pay out of their very own pocket,” he stated whereas slyly resurrecting his kayfabe beef with Damon. In the end, Kimmel turned down his well-known frenemy as a result of he “felt that that was not their duty.”
Colbert, the rapscallion, responded, “Couldn’t you say sure after which give your cash to us?”
For what it’s price, Ryan Reynolds additionally provided Kimmel’s employees free Mint cellular plans for the yr. Reynolds is an proprietor of Mint and a sponsor of the podcast. However come on, Reynolds, placing writers want gin and soccer groups, too!
When the strike started, some late-night hosts, together with Fallon and Meyers, provided to pay for per week of the employees’s wage, with NBC masking the primary two weeks. Earlier this yr, Indiewire estimated how a lot paying the employees weekly would value:
In 2007, the payroll protection ran between an estimated $150,000-$250,000 per week, relying on employees dimension, in line with the New York Occasions. In at present’s {dollars}, that may be roughly $220,000-$365,000. “The Tonight Present,” on the time hosted by Leno, had about 80 non-writing staffers; O’Brien paid his 75-person employees.
Strike Pressure 5 is a Spotify podcast starring the dapper boys of late-night, Kimmel, John Oliver, Jimmy Fallon, Seth Meyers, and Stephen Colbert. The plan is to run for 12 episodes—although because the strike continues into its fifth month, it’s potential the present may run longer. All of the proceeds from the present are going to pay their placing employees. There Kimmel goes once more, displaying up Matt Damon.
[via The Hollywood Reporter]
