Late night hosts finally made their tv return following the end of the writers strike. ABC's 'Jimmy Kimmel Live', CBS' 'Late Show With Stephen Colbert' and NBC's 'Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon' and 'Late Night With Seth Meyers' resumed Monday night, five months to the day after they closed up shop when the Writers Guild of America went on strike, which the guild called an end to last week, with a tentative agreement in place.
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00:00 Late Night hosts finally made their TV return following the end of the writer strike.
00:05 ABC's Jimmy Kimmel Live, CBS's Late Show with Stephen Colbert, and NBC's Tonight Show
00:11 starring Jimmy Fallon and Late Night with Seth Meyers resumed on Monday night, five
00:16 months to the day after they closed up shop when the Writers Guild of America went on
00:19 strike, which the Guild called to an end last week with a tentative agreement in place.
00:24 All four hosts opened their shows with expressions of gratitude for the WGA's new contract.
00:29 In a pre-taped, cold open, Colbert pretended to be on a rowboat at sea when a dolphin informed
00:35 him the strike had ended, and then addressed some of the key points in the agreement.
00:39 "Oh, I see.
00:40 Artificial intelligence can be used, but it can't be credited as a writer or be a source
00:44 of literary material?
00:45 That makes sense.
00:46 Why did that take five months?"
00:48 Fallon launched into a series of jokes about how excited he was to be back in the Tonight
00:52 Show studio.
00:53 "I'm more excited than a Jets fan during the first three plays of the season.
00:57 You gotta be kidding me!"
00:59 Kimmel did a cold open of him in therapy with Arnold Schwarzenegger as his shrink before
01:03 taking the stage only to find it commandeered by a pickleball foursome.
01:07 "We've been gone so long, the Bachelor is now a grandfather."
01:11 Myers, in a clip released before the show aired, delivered a heartfelt thanks to his
01:15 fellow writers and WGA leadership for getting the deal done, as well as his family for putting
01:20 up with him in the interim.
01:21 "I know it was not easy to have me around for five months.
01:25 I'll never forget the day this summer where my seven-year-old came up to me and said,
01:29 'Not only do I not care what Rudy Giuliani did today, I'm not going to care what he does
01:35 tomorrow.'"
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01:45 (whooshing)
01:47 (gentle music)