Posted on 05/02/2023 1:11:47 PM PDT by DallasBiff
It’s never been funny to tell the same joke twice. If the material on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and Jimmy Kimmel Live! wasn’t already stale by the time it left the host’s mouths, it certainly will be when those same episodes are looped back into rotation as production on the late-night circuit is halted following the initiation of a strike among movie and television writers.
Late-night TV took the first hit when the strike was announced on Monday evening. The Writers Guild of America West unveiled plans to go forward with the strike after the threat of doing so loomed over six weeks of negotiations with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers. The decision arrived via unanimous vote between their board of directors and Writers Guild of America East’s council and went into effect at 12:01 a.m. on Tuesday, May 2
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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.
It’s good news for us, bad news for them!
Some of the best TV was during the last big strike in 80s. They dusted off old scripts and brought back Perry Mason and Mission Impossible.
Not good. No Gutfield!
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 ...
No he’s on. He writes his own monologue and the remaining team are not in the union. Great opportunity for him.
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.
Thanks. It’s so interesting because I would think he’d be required to join the union, as well as the other writers that aren’t professional comedians. I left Hollywood before I had to join a union, thank God. Too confusing.
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 couldn't stand him, and any products he advertises I avoid.
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.
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