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The titans of late night are teaming up to talk shop on a new podcast — all in an effort to support their striking employees — and at least one union is totally cool with that plan … on certain conditions.<\/p>\n
A rep for SAG-AFTRA tells TMZ … the just-launched “Strike Force Five” show — featuring Stephen Colbert<\/strong>, Jimmy Kimmel<\/strong>, Jimmy Fallon<\/strong>, Seth Meyers<\/strong> and John Oliver<\/strong> — is all good in their book … assuming they stay within guidelines set forth by strike regulators.<\/p>\n Waiting for your permission to load the Instagram Media.<\/p>\n This is how a SAG spokesperson put it … “As long as the podcast does not promote struck work, it appears to be in adherence with the SAG-AFTRA TV\/Theatrical\/Streaming strike rules. Given that it falls within the strike rules, it is fine for them to produce this podcast during the strike.”<\/p>\n In other words, it sounds like the hosts have their blessing to proceed … but they should probably steer clear of certain topics<\/strong> if they wanna stay in the actors union’s good graces. Obviously, the podcast itself isn’t a straight-up promo of anything, but the challenge will be not sounding promo-ish if they discuss a certain movie or show that’s in the zeitgeist.<\/p>\n Considering that’s what they do as part of their normal jobs — talk about certain films\/projects — it might seem like it will be tough to stay in SAG’s good graces … but, remember, the pod isn’t live. They can always edit if the convo strays into promo land.<\/p>\n The podcast is a good thing, big picture — any money earned is being donated directly to the late-night hosts’ own writers … who, of course, haven’t been working since May.<\/p>\n “Strike Force Five” is currently slated for 12 episodes, which will be hosted on Spotify. They haven’t really said what they’re going to talk about … but ya gotta figure the ongoing strikes will be topic #1. The podcast launched Wednesday, and there’s more to come.<\/p>\n![\"Late](\"https:\/\/imagez.tmz.com\/image\/96\/4by3\/2023\/08\/30\/96e60fb6874c4ad79eb9eeafc98692f2_md.jpg\")
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