Jimmy Fallon can't get through 'Moby Dick' during time off with the TV star apologising to 'Tonight Show' employees amid toxic workplace scandal and writers' strike
"It’s embarrassing, and I feel so bad," Fallon said, according to two employees who were on the call and spoke with Rolling Stone."Sorry if I embarrassed you and your family and friends… I feel so bad I can’t even tell you."The same day as the Rolling Stone exposé, the third episode of the"Strike Force Five" podcast dropped, including a discussion about how the late night hosts are keeping busy during the strike.
He continued,"I enjoyed ‘Why Read Moby Dick?' up to a point, but I think other things just happened and then I moved on. For maybe two, three weeks, I was obsessed with Herman Melville." There have been three episodes so far, and it is currently the number one podcast in America right now. However, insiders say it still is unlikely to generate enough advertising revenue to cover full salaries of entire show teams.
So I'd like to highlight that right now by running an ad voiced by one or all of us, without any of your permission, I've created the ad using AI."Colbert continued,"This is why the guild's gotta hold the line, this is why SAG's gotta hold the line because we're all going to be replaced by robots by Christmas if we don't."
Fox News Digital reached out to representatives for The Tonight Show, and they had no comment. Representatives for"Jimmy Kimmel Live!""The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,""Late Night with Seth Meyers," and"Last Week Tonight with John Oliver," did not respond to requests for comment. The AMPTP stated on their website the same day,"The AMPTP member companies are aligned and are negotiating together to reach a resolution. Any suggestion to the contrary is false.
Exactly how much that cost the late-night host is unclear, but in 2007, The New York Times estimated that the cost could range between $150,000 and $250,000 a week, depending on staff size.