On a new podcast, an all-star lineup of late-night television hosts will discuss Hollywood’s ongoing labour disputes to raise funds for their striking staff writers.

According to a statement from streaming service Spotify, Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel, Seth Meyers, and John Oliver will appear in the podcast “Strike Force Five”, which premiered on Wednesday. Each episode will feature all five, who will take turns as hosts.

The Writers Guild of America (WGA) went on strike in early May after failing to reach a new labour agreement with the major Hollywood studios that produce movies and television shows. With 160,000 members, the SAG-AFTRA actors union, Hollywood’s largest union, went on strike in July, a Reuters report said.

Late-night shows have been airing reruns for nearly four months due to a lack of teams of writers to pen topical jokes.

The five hosts have been meeting weekly over Zoom “to discuss the complexities behind the ongoing Hollywood strikes”, Spotify said, and the new podcast will allow fans to “listen in on these once-private chats”.

Spotify said ‘Strike Force Five’ will be available on most major podcast platforms and run for at least 12 episodes. Kimmel – in a post on social media platform X, previously known as Twitter – said the podcast would continue “for the remainder of the strike.”

All proceeds will go to the writers of the late-night shows, Spotify said.