Posted on 05/02/2023 6:07:58 AM PDT by Red Badger
The Late Show, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, The Tonight Show, Late Night and The Daily Show are all expected to pivot to re-runs.
Colbert was set to have Priyanka Chopra Jonas and Chita Rivera on Tuesday’s show, with Chris Hayes, Zach Cherry, Michael J. Fox and Shonda Rhimes lined up for later in the week. Fallon was set with Ken Jeong and Emma Chamberlain on Tuesday, with the likes of Jennifer Lopez, JJ Watt, Elle Fanning and Bowen Yang among guests for later in the week. Kimmel was welcoming Dr. Phil, Gina Rodriguez and The Pixies on Tuesday, with Melissa McCarthy, Will Poulter, Ricky Gervais, Anthony Carrigan and Smashing Pumpkins set for later in the week. The Daily Show was set to welcome authors Vashti Harrison and Jason Reynolds and former NFL All-Pro Brandon Marshall.
Seth Meyers, speaking on Late Night this afternoon, said: “I love writing. I love writing for TV. I love writing this show. I love that we get to come in with an idea for what we want to do every day and we get to work on it all afternoon and then I have the pleasure of coming out here. No one is entitled to a job in show business. But for those people who have a job, they are entitled to fair compensation. They are entitled to make a living. I think it’s a very reasonable demand that’s being set out by the guild. And I support those demands.”
Pete Davidson, whose Peacock comedy series Bupkis starts this week, was set for his SNL return on May 6. We hear that there are a number of possibilities for the Lorne Michaels-created show if there is a strike and that a decision is set to be made closer to showtime.
Speaking on The Tonight Show, Davidson joked that he was taking it personally. “It sucks because it just feeds my weird story I have in my head, like, of course that would happen to me.”
Two of the nightly hosts, Kimmel and Colbert, went through this situation in 2007-08, the latter as the host of The Colbert Report. Meyers was at Saturday Night Live during the last strike, and Oliver was on The Daily Show. Maher’s Real Time was also hit, with its season finale replaced by a rerun.
One of the issues in this year’s negotiation between the writers guild and the studios is also, in fact, surrounding late-night shows on streaming. As it stands, writers who work on “comedy variety programs made for new media,” such as Peacock’s The Amber Ruffin Show, do not qualify for MBA minimums, something the WGA has been fighting for.
Late-night showrunners have told Deadline that they will stay in touch with each other as the strike progresses to give a unified approach to the situation, something that didn’t happen in ’07-’08.
“I have been and will continue to talk to the other shows to see what they’re up to,” one showrunner said. “We’ve got to support the writers — our writers are amazing. That said, the rest of the staff is amazing, and I don’t want to see anybody lose their jobs or lose a paycheck. What’s the happy medium there? Figuring that out, it’s not been easy.”
One SNL star told Deadline: “We have to think about our crew too. I absolutely support the writers, and I want the writers to get what they deserve and need, but I don’t want our crew to be out of work. We can’t make this art without each other.”
I read through the list of scheduled guests, and I recognized about a half dozen of them. Smashing Pumpkins was the only one I would have wanted to see.
I hope the strike goes on for a long, long time.
Big deal they can get any teenager from 13 to 19 to write the same material and it would cost them less weed.
Darn I was hoping they wouldn’t be showing that garbage anymore but still stuck with reruns that sucks oh well it’s a start
Clever and cheeky propaganda disguised as entertainment is really hard to write. The government will end the strike fast. The feds found out their narratives aren’t the least bit funny as they outline them.
Who cares?
The talking heads are not comedians, couldn’t write their own humor....because groupthonk requires special propaganda writers, fully approved.
None of those idiots can write their own stuff?
They are just cue card readers......................
I watch those old Carson’s from time to time. People were civilized and had decorum back then.
Why can’t these uber-talented show hosts just do their own writing?
Probably contract exclusions....................UNION RULES...................
#46 These late night hosts make 10’s of millions each year. They do not share the wealth with the people who made them the money.
Replace them all with even more reality shows.... from Youtube : )
Fallon always looks wasted.
Jerry Seinfeld had him on his ‘Comedians getting coffee’ show and Fallon had to be fed lines by Seinfeld who was trying to help him but Fallon was not funny at all as he could not deliver, same for Jon Stewart who is not funny.
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