Haven't watched late night since Carson left the air, he was fair.
Woohoo! Keep up the strike!!!
Exactly! How many writers are needed to make bad jokes?
They are just political hits anyway. Easy.
You mean they’re written and not spontaneous wit from the hosts minds? I’d be shocked and disillusioned if I ever watched but I don’t so life will go on.
He could. But he’s in the guild. So that would be crossing the line.
Really the WGA just needs better negotiators. Their contract always sucks. They write the thing that gets the studios to bankroll it, and gets stars to sign on, and they earn about as much as the craft services guys. Which is why we get these strikes every time the contract comes up.
Apparently only Jay Leno could write his own jokes?
Johnny Carson shows from years like 1973 or 1980 are probably far more watchable than the slop from ones like Colbert and Falloon. Kind of like when there is a labour disruption with the NHL, the sports channels have no other choice but to dust off the game videotapes from the 1960s through 1980s period when hockey was that much better in many respects, lol.
babylon bee said the quality of TV shows just improved exponentially ...
It’s all so woke anymore that it doesn’t much matter.
I’ve been on striking their trash for a bit.
*shrug* Strike a match...I hope they stay gone.
These late night shows might be the last shows with paid writers. (although they just take Democrat talking points)
James Corden's show was losing $20 million a year.
I don’t recall the union being brought up in the writers’ room of the Alan Brady Show with Rob Petrie, Sally Rogers and Buddy Sorrell.
They should just us the AI’s to write the scripts. No one will notice the difference.
Rats now the homeless won’t have a place to get out of the rain and cold.
They’d probably get better ratings running reruns of old sitcoms from decades past.
“It’s never been funny to tell the same joke twice.”
On an old Craig Ferguson show he had some old-time comedian on. The guy was saying back in the old days you would play a club and the people would want to hear a particular joke. So it was a lot like a singer playing the popular songs at a concert - only with jokes.
And how today you have to tell new jokes all the time. Craig said something like “Well thank God there are thousands of Indian Casinos across the country so we don’t have to learn all new jokes every night!”
Good, they aren’t funny.