For the finale, we have one more of the better “Strike Force Five” podcasts. They were all wonderful, but a handful stood-out, and this is one of them. It's a fine way to go out. For those new to Strike Force Five, the five hosts of talk shows – Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel, Seth Meyers and John Oliver – teamed up during the recent Writers Guild strike to do a weekly podcast. The point was to raise money for each of their staffs. As I’ve mentioned with the others I’ve posted, what stands out from the podcasts is how much the hosts seem to truly like and respect the others – though being comedians have no trouble ridiculing the others, at times mercilessly, including relentlessly bringing up past derision from previous weeks, not letting foolish misdeeds be forgotten. And that’s precisely where this fits it. The first of the podcasts I posted was when Jimmy Fallon hosted and decided to try to turn it into a sort of Newlywed Game-type episode, having asked question of the host’s wives, and seeing how their husbands’ answered matched up. The problem was that he kept repeatedly screwing up the questions and games so horribly, that the show went far off the rails. And he was so mercilessly ridiculed by the other hosts that he never had a chance to finish all the questions. This is the long-awaited sequel to that. (And I mean that literally. As they discuss at the beginning of the episode, the most email that the show received – and personal comments the hosts each got from others – the most-asked question…by far…was when would they be doing the Fallon follow-up. This is Episode 11, what they call “The Return of Strike Force Wives.” The WGA strike is over at this point, but the hosts felt they still had some unfished business to clear up, and so did three final ones. This is the penultimate. And if it isn’t as screwed up as the first Fallon attempt at a Newlywed-type game, that’s only because the bar was set so impossibly high – and it’s still great fun. I can’t embed the podcast – it was done for Spotify – but here's a link to the episode on the Strike Force Five website. If you didn't hear the original "Strike Force Five Wives" episode that preceded this and sets it up, I heartily recommend listening to it first. It's just too funny. You can find it here. This Episode 11 follow-up stands fine on its own, but the two together are a special joy.
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