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.
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00:00 Jimmy Kimmel is saying his longtime friends Ben Affleck and Matt Damon made a very generous
00:04 offer at the start of the writer's strike.
00:08 On the newly launched Strikeforce 5 podcast featuring Kimmel, Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon,
00:13 Seth Meyers and John Oliver all hosting a limited run podcast in the wake of the WGA
00:18 and SAG afterstrikes, Kimmel revealed the duo offered to pay his staff salaries for
00:23 two weeks after his ABC late night show Jimmy Kimmel Live shut down in May.
00:28 Kimmel, however, said he rejected the offer.
00:30 "I felt that that was not their responsibility."
00:32 Kimmel also noted that Ryan Reynolds offered to give the live staff free Mint Mobile services
00:37 for a year.
00:38 Reynolds is an owner of Mint Mobile, which ended up being a sponsor of the podcast.
00:42 Kimmel also revealed in the episode that he was considering retiring when the strike began.
00:47 "I was very intent on retiring right around the time where the strike started.
00:51 And now I realize, 'Oh yeah, it's kind of nice to work.
00:54 You know when you're working, you think about not working.'"
00:56 For more on the Strikeforce 5 podcast head to THR.com and for the latest entertainment
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