Better Late Than Never
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Finally!
Feeling an intense backlash in Hollywood, Jay Leno has agreed to pay his staff out of his own pocket since they were all fired by NBC as a result of the writers' strike on Friday.
Jay was the only major late night talk show host NOT to support his staff.
He must not care too much about them, though, Leno has only agreed to pay their salary for one week.
[Image via Mavrix Online.]
Posted: December 3, 2007 at 12:51 am
I love this photo haha
thats dumb why only 1?
first
lalaa
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can someone who says "first" please defend themselves? I'm trying to understand why it's NOT idiotic.
Oh that is so good to hear! I was super worried about Ross (the intern) Mathews and Daria (geek girl)!
First
first damn it.
bout time!
just a week?
hhah
FIRST!!!!
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he's my hero
While I understand completely your point of view on this issue Perez - I think you need to stop being so hard on every talk show host who doesn't practically give up their own career for the writers. Ellen and Jay are both great talents who have worked extremely hard in life, and they both supported the writers while still watching out for themselves and I see absolutely nothing wrong in that.
Jay Leno is richer than all of those other hosts.He should have paid up from the beginning.If not for his writers,he would suck worse than he naturally does!!!
First?
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Writters, not Leno should be paying the salaries of the cameramen, make up people, and all the crews that are now out of the job. The greety writers, not Leno are responsible for so many families now without a job.-
one week, lame
actually miss clover, I think it is stupid, I say it all the time. But you know if you saw 0 comments that you'd be tempted too. bitch
Leno is a complete tool. He is not funny and I cannot wait for him to be replaced by Conan.
GET IN ME !!!!!!!!!!!!!
why should leno have to bail those lazy fucks out? its not his job to pay them, its NBC's
Why should he pay them. They're not working. Lazy Bums!
what a culero!!!!
yeah yeah yeah, and David Letterman agreed to do this way back when the writer's strike first began !!
Leno is a cheap phony. Why doesn't NBC fire him and bring Conan in early!!!
It seems pretty ignorant that people are mad because he wouldn't support his staff. It is not his fault that the writer's are on strike. He is not involved in the negotiations in anyway shape or form from my understanding so why should he pay for it? Seems like a liberal train of thought to me, this is America, not Soviet Russia.
Re: COCO – greedy? its not greedy what happend is because of the GREEDY networks and big productions companies not changing contracts to include royalties to writers from internet streamings… thats bullshit if u ask me.
dont talk about issues you know nothing about.
The industry is changing because we like the internet and downloads and free streaming.. but to u it mite seem free that the network streams it to you from there site for free… but there making money from sponsors and adds on there site they pocket that money and give no credit and commission to the writers.
Jay Lenno your a bit of a tight arse
You're an asswhole sometimes. It's not his responsibilty to pay anyone. His job is talking to people, he's the host. He's not a producer or anything. It's not his job to manage the writers.
It's not his responsiblity to pay their salaries, what is wrong with you perez! You're a hateful fucker!
It's not his responsibility to pay their salaries… so if he wants to do it for a week, a day, so what it's his money!!!
I say sad that he's paying out of his own pockets to the writers? Jay doesn't own the show! Let NBC or better yet let the union pay for it's own stupid strike! Let the union cover the cost of it's striking members! The networks (ABC, CBS & NBC) are relics, and the 'so called scripts of crap shows aren't worth the paper their written on. The "writers" are afraid they won't get a piece of the internet pie (so to speak) as the web takes over where TV falls short. I don't want the dribble the 'writers churn out to become part of my web experience. It's bad enough; when I click on a news story, and have to sit through 45-seconds of commercial. I guess the writings on the wall and Hollywood is going to squeeze every penny out of every inch they can steal? Hey! I watched a movie the other day on 'DVD. I paid good money for the thing, but guess what? The 'DVD starts out with 10-minutes of commercials for other movies the company is currently pushing! Grrrrrr! Commercials commercials! I pay for 'DVDs & for internet; as far as I'm concerned I'm paying for NOT having to watch commercials! That's another myth we've been force fed. Commercials don't sell anything. I've never EVER boughten a single thing ever pushed in a commercial. I've never been tempted to run out and buy something just because I saw it on TV or in an ad. Have you? I doubt it. 2-cents & thank you…
Okay, SERIOUSLY its not LENO'S job to pay the staff. Sure he has more money then God but they aren't HIS employees. Just because the other late night hosts payed their employees doesn't mean Leno has to.
Re: ali bama – okay, but don't you KNOW that you probably won't end up being first when you see that it almost never happens? I was trying to be a bitch, I'm actually just curious.
Actually coco, I agree with some of what you say. I don't think it is the responsibility of the host to pay the staffs salary. I must say though, writers are NOT greedy. Compared to the stars and producers, the writers salary is minuscule. They deserve the pay increase they seek.
Re: Mish – It is Leno's money not their's. He should not have payed them in the first place but he was nice enough to do so and he still gets hated on for it. How about we all think and stop being commie libs expecting something for nothing(they are not working why should they recieve pay especially from a fellow coworker). Sometimes life gives you a swift kick in the ass, you gotta get up dust yourself off and move on.
Re: COCO –
I hope everyone reads your post darling!
A week? What a cheap SOB. Meanwhile this childless mutant chin freak has about 20 gazillion cars he has no problem supporting for absolutely no purpose other than supporting his huge fat ego. F- him!
How many have you paid, Perez, out of your own pocket? You profit from the shows they create. Without them you'd have no stars of shows and movies to write nasty things about. Why should he, as a private citizen, pay them, he's not their employer, NBC is. Is he expected to pay everyone who is unemployed for whatever reason that his show has benefitted from. Why don't you expect the same from the man who writes and produces The Office. Don't get me wrong, I happen to be a writer in LA and I totally support the strike, but your complaint is ridiculous.
They were not fired they were laid off and they just got laid off Friday I know this b/c I watch the ross blog www.blog.nbc.com/ross_blog I don't think he has to pay anything to them.
The writers walked off so why don't they pay the people who they fucked over ?
Its always the little people who unions fuck over, but in the end the fat cats always get their cream.
How many other people would do that? Leno is paying workers that he doesn't employ, but rather producers and the such employ, and giving them money and you insinuate that he isn't being generous enough. Perez, why don't you pay them something. Sure, you aren't, nor ever will be, anything like Leno, but you have the same responsibility as he does to pay them. Do you know how much it would cost to pay an entire cast of a show salaries for a week?
If you had bothered to read the whole article, you'd see that he's up to other things. Jay Leno is a great guy and he's going to take care of his workers. Don't worry about them, and don't partake in this anomosity! because of talk like this, you are pitting the people who are FOR the stike against one another, and making it seem like its time to panic.
i wouldnt want to pay them if nbc was forcing me to leave the show either
why is it jays responsibility to pay his staff members. it wasnt his choice that they got fired now was it. i wouldnt pay them.
Perez, you forget that they chose to strike and now must (pay) the repricussions for those actions. Jay is not obligated to support their cause. Just because you and I think the writers are right, doesn't mean anyone should be skewered for not agreeing!
He couldn't afford to pay them because the maintenance on that huge
chin of his costs so much.
I dont see you volunteering to pay their salaries….
So keep your mouth shut
yeah, bet cheap pp would pay his staff while they were on strike….NOT!
Find Castro's body yet?
So, this means they are going to pay his salary when they dump him for Conan? This isn't his staff, it's NBC's staff, they are the ones making all the cash. Yeah, they all get paid too much, but that is what they bring in to the company or else they'd be out like Jay will be in 2009. The writers at least are getting residule checks and they don't exactly make min wage! Let's all pass judgment on everyone, because we are reading some website by some fat guy who makes money by humilating those he doesn't like and fawning over others with the other hand? He says who is good and who is bad in Hollywood, why again? Because he overheard someone say something or let someone who knew someone fist fuck him? Oh, the humanity! We are all so high and mighty!
seriously ya'll have jobs, are making well over what the average American makes, stop ya bitchin and be glad you have a job! when ya aren't makin enough to put food on ya table and a roof over ya heads then ya can bitch about your paychecks!
Leno's a Taurus. No wonder he's so cheap.
Cheap fuck! Why doesn't he sell his car collection? The writers should be getting paid the big bucks and not him.
Why should he have to pay them out of his own pocket? It's great if he does, but people are idiotic to crawl up his ass because he doesn't do so. You could blame NBC for firing them.
Hell, people have known that the strike was coming for a long time, they should even have some personal responsibility to look after their own welfare also. If I knew that there was a chance that I would lose my job, I would have options set up, not just stand around waiting for people with fat wallets to get bullied by the hordes into sharing.
PS #31 is a fucktard.
I don't see why Jay Leno is being held morally or finanically responsible for the writers' strike. That's silly and totally beyond his control. He's been on the picket lines with the writers and totaly supportive. He doesn't owe the crew anything–the writers, networks, unions etc. are the ones who put the working folks in this bind and should do what they can to get these people their jobs back. What a mess… And have I mentioned how much I miss those new episodes of "The Office"?
To counter the same multiple-posting, one or two Ann Coulter clit-lickers here in this forum, let me tell you a little secret about Jay Leno and his show (since most of you so-called "conservatives" obviously have no clue whatsoever about the way things work in show business): A show like Leno's is composed not of nameless, faceless workers. Yes, I know you conservative worms LOVE when the common working man has no name nor face since it makes it easy for you to shit all over him and steal his money. But as I was saying, a Show like Leno's is a family. Yes, a fucking FAMILY, just like the one you like to tout when playing Pavlov to middle America. These people are not just "workers". It's a special arrangement, a very, very tight-knit group. You don't diss family under the chickenshit defense of "he doesn't owe them anything". You disgusting Republican maggots are too far up Ayn Rand's ass to get that. However. Leno, from a sense of fucking HONOR, has now done what any real man would do: HELPED HIS FAMILY. So, _fuck you_, Red Birds.
Leno makes how many millions? He has a fortune under his belt but 1 week is tops? What is it about really rich celebrities and other figures who hate to talk about how much they make, and how when they are not being reported on luxurious extravagances they are ultra conservativw about who or what they give money to? Is there some kind of unseen trade-off whenever someone "makes it " where they sit down in a board room and some bald old man in a crinkled buisness suit lays it out saying " You can never be excessive with what we give you or live like a radical with this much cash, never boast, and never spend it in philantropic ways that are too dubiously capricious. And never enjoy talking about what you make, all this money…, treat it like a phantom…Your ego will still be gratified by all the low-lives who follow your private lifestyle in gossip magz. Ok kid ? !" Then he gets wheeled away by assistants and the first check with those high numbers flaps on that new hot someone's lap.
hey perez maybe you should support the photographers whose photos you steal by paying their salaries, you fucken cock sucking piece of thieving shit
Dave's paying all his staff and Craig Fergusons till 2008!
And Dave has a child…
What does Mavis do? I guess the upkeep of all those cars takes alotta dough!
CHEAPSKATE BASTARD!
Why the hell should he pay them? No one pays me when I don't effing WORK! These people should be asking the Writer's Guild to pay them….not Leno. Our country is so backwards.
the writers ain't the only important people here , im sick of hearing about the writers , what makes them more important than the cameraman or the cable guy , no host should have to pay there employees salaries they should be at work in the job that there fortunate to have if the writers cant fight there own fight wtf are they doing
ive seen more coverage on the stupid strike than i did about Katrina , don't get me started on all there motivational speeches they are doing and actors appearing for an hour then going home , if this much attention was put on an actual important cause people may actualy make a difference
the writers need to get there ass' back to work , simple as that , effecting peoples lives during the holidays pfffft
Re: COCO –
Jay told his staff from the beginning not to go and look for other jobs and that he would take care of them. Then when the show let everyone go last friday, he didn't even bother to call in to say anything to anyone. this is why he should be taking care of his people. He doesn't spend any of this money that he makes from the Tonight Show and has no kids. The majority of his staff has been with him for more than 8 years. Conan doesn't make anywhere near what Jay makes but is taking care of his staff because he made a decision to support his writers.
Re: Kel –
he gives out the christmas bonuses every year. He just gave them a couple of weeks early this year and for some people they are only getting a couple hundred dollars.
ewwww. what a f'ing cheapskate!
So what if he doesn't want to. It's not HIS responsibility to pay their bills. Just b/c others wanted to do it doesn't mean he automatically has to as well.
Leno is an ass….I hate this fuckin writers strike i know it does not affect me directly but this is bullshit i feel bad for all the workers gettig laid off. While the writers on the shows are stll getting checks from the reruns. Finally people are just beginning to talk about them! FUCK THE WRITERS!!!!!
What do you expect from a republican???