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Leno Scolded By Writers Guild
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When Jay Leno returned to the airwaves on Wednesday without his striking scribes, he announced that he had written his opening monologue, a violation of the Writers Guild strike rules.
Tisk. Tisk.
The WGA sent out the following statement on Thursday, reprimanding educating Leno about his responsibilities.
"A discussion took place today between Jay Leno and the Writers Guild to clarify to him that writing for The Tonight Show constitutes a violation of the Guilds' strike rules."
David Letterman will have an advantage over Leno for the time being. The Late Show host is back with his entire writing staff, a deal he was able to broker independently with the Writers Guild because Letterman, unlike Leno, owns his show.
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Posted: January 3, 2008 at 8:02 pm
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he should be allowed to write his own monologue, he's the host
He has a big chin.
FIRST!
1ST??
Fuck Jay Leno. I have'nt like him ever since he got that show.
hey y'all, i aint first!
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enough with FIRST. It's annoying and lame. Get a life!
is the stupid strike over yet? cant blame the man for bein funny.
whats so great about saying first?
big lebowski!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
AGAIN… THIS IS FUCKING BULLSHIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! GO JAY… YOU ROCK!!
WHO GIVES
you forgot to mention that the is making him do the show. he is stuck in the middle. not everyone is bad perez.
I have to add… I love how they refer to the STRIKE RULES!! Come on now… what, just because they all decided they were going to be spoiled little babies and not go to work… now he's a bad guy because he does their work for them… welll I got some simple LIFE RULES for them… GO TO FUCKING WORK!!!! Then maybe they won't have to worry about other people doing their jobs for them!!! ASSHOLES!
everybody who says first is a retard
Who gives a shit?! All these stupid ass associations who just proclaim themselves the bosses. WGA doesn't run SHIT. They are just like the MLA (Modern Language Association). Peopla have got to stop the power of the associations, if no one does, they will just dictate our entertainment all our lives.
For the love of all that is good, he was forced back to work and has supported you this whole time but he needs to earn a living too! The writers are not the be all and end all and alot of people who don't make as much as they do like production staff, camera crews etc are out of work too. Jay can't just stand there, he needs to do something.
ox. :] top 20
Leno should be able to write for his own show
Letterman is and always will be the best!!! However, Conan ruled last night.
hes okay
These writers suck. They complain about everything. I'm so sick of hearing about their whining. Suck it up and be happy you have a job because many people don't. America is sick to death about hearing about the writers. We don't care. And I'm sure you can easily be replaced. People in Hollywood think everything revolves around them but it doesn't. Either go back to work and put out your mediocre talent or shut the eff up. We don't care. We'll watch movies, read a book, or entertain ourselves online. WE DON'T CARE.
For shit's sake! Putting pen to paper shouldn't be a crime. The WGA is starting to piss me off.
They are the ones striking why punish him. He can't do anything about it. They chose their profession, they need to deal with how they are being treated. No ones fault but theres. I have a friend in Cali that wrote for Leno, he said he wants to go back to work but the stupid reps are preventing it.
As long as i have intervention, first 48, the hills, the real world, Dr. Phil and the real world/road rules challenge I don't give a poop about the writers. PFFT!
Screw the writers !! Last time I checked, I was still living in the FREE United States !
This assumes that the writers would come up with something beter than Leno himself could. A big assumption. Some shows would probably do better without the writers. Like SNL. They eat shit. It'd probably be much funnier if the comedians performed off the cuff.
Those writers are just mad that their jobs can be easily replaced. This is so annoying. For once I admired Jay because he wrote some jokes and Conan didn't. Now I find out that he can't do it anymore. I bet he wrote out some questions that he asked guests too. Is he not allowed to do that anymore either? Give me a break.
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NOT TRYING TO MARGINALIZE THE WGA'S POINT, BECAUSE I *DO* THINK THEY ARE RIGHT; HOWEVER…..I'M ALL OUT OF SYMPATHY FOR THE WRITERS.
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FIRST, THEY CALL OFF TALKS….ENSURING ABSOLUTELY NOTHING IS BEING ACCOMPLISHED. AFTER THAT HISSIE FIT WAS DONE, THEY START TALKING AGAIN.
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BUT NOT BEFORE LITERALLY HUNDREDS OF STAFF AND CREW LOSE THEIR JOBS — MOST OF WHOM ARE MAKING A FRACTION OF WHAT THE AVERAGE WRITER MAKES.
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IF YOU CAN NOT GET WHAT YOU WANT AND DESERVE WITHOUT HURTING PEOPLE WHO AREN'T INVOLVED, THERE'S PROBABLY A GOOD REASON FOR IT.
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BEING TREATED UNFAIRLY IS NOT A LICENSE TO 'PAY IT FORWARD.'
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TWO WRONGS DON'T MAKE A RIGHT.
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P.S. WRITER'S GUILD "SCALE" (SUGGESTED MINIMUM) PAY FOR WRITING A 30 MINUTE SITCOM IS AROUND ***TWENTY THOUSAND DOLLARS***. WHICH DOESN'T INCLUDE ANY RESIDUALS, ETC.
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THIS STRIKE IS ABOUT ROYALTIES ON INTERNET AND DVD INCOME, BACK-END PAY. THAT 20K SITCOM SCRIPT, OVER THE YEARS, IS WORTH QUADRUPLE. AND THAT'S BEFORE THE NET AND DVD INCOME.
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MY HEART IS BLEEDING! THAT IS A PITTANCE! I WONDER WHAT ALL THE PA'S, GRIPS, STAND-INS, ETC WERE MAKING BEFORE GETTING CANNED BECAUSE 80K IS NOT ENOUGH FOR THE WRITERS? 18 BUCKS AN HOUR?
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TSK. TSK. TSK.
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Naughty Naughty!
Jay did a great job last night!
Jay's a nice guy, and I had thought that he was smart too.
Those writers are just mad that their jobs can be easily replaced. This is so annoying. For once I admired Jay because he wrote some jokes and Conan didn't. Now I find out that he can't do it anymore. I bet he wrote out some questions that he asked guests too. Is he not allowed to do that anymore either? Give me a break.
Dave RULES…. Jay drools
Team Conan.
And what will his punishment be? will any actor boycott him?
What a SCAB!
What a TOOL!
Leno has never been funny anyway.
IS he really so stupid that he didn't know any better?
Nope. Just a FUCKING SCAB!!!
I can't stand that over-sized monkey, Jay Leno. He is not funny, at all, without his writers and is rarely funny reading what his writers wrote on the teleprompter. Can't wait till Conan O'Brien takes over the tonight show from monkey.
I love how all the IDIOTS on this board and in the United States
Demonize anyone who does a job that requires THOUGHT
e.g. WRITING, teaching, being a professor, being a scientist, etc.
You are all idiots and you have the STUPIDEST PRESIDENT in the HISTORY of the United States
and THE WORST ECONOMY to PROVE it.
YOU THINK THE WRITER'S are ASSHOLES for wanting FAIR PAY for what they do
AND DON'T KID YOURSELVES. YOU CANNOT DO WHAT THEY DO (proof? This board!)
That kind of thinking is why most of you make minimum wage at WALMART!
Time to start firing strikers and hire new ones. Reagan would have canned them long ago!!!
Too fucking bad. If the writers don't want to write, they can be replaced. Bunch of whining cry babies. You go Jay, why should you stop your show just because they don't want to work because they are too busy pouting. Screw 'em. Replace them all!!! No one is indespensable.
I'm sick to death of this 'strike'. More like a hissy fit, the days of unions are over. If you don't like your job, get another one and stop being a big baby. Damn!
Go Jay, David, John, ETC Great job and welcome back. Who needs those lousy writers anyways, You guys are tops!!
The WGA are starting to sound very snobby and annoying they are not the o needs to only ones who needs to work and earn a living. they are being completely selfish at this point. I support Jay!!!
Did you even know that the TOTAL AMOUNT that the WRITERS are requesting — TOTAL — is less than most of the CEOs of the Networks make a YEAR?
NOW, tell me what a CEO does to deserve that pay?
Yeah, I didn't think you could!
Hey, Clean Up on Aisle 5, losers!
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Well,, ooooh pardon me, oh,,, dear, rules of the guild? for years of him doing this show and he has to answer to who..the guild? What about the network? If was Jay I would tell those rule flinging idiots to F O! I love Jay no matter what he does, he could just come out and stand there and just smile and I would be happy! Besides, whats gonna happen, the guild police gonna arrest him and put him in writers cell block 29? All you JAYHATERS,, LEAVE MY JAY ALONE!
Insulting people who work at walmart and such does not make you a better person. They work their ass off to support and FEED their family. The real LOSER is someone who degrades someone else because of their job just to prove a point.
Re: sdjflksdjflk –
I think you forgot to take your medication.
you are the loser if you think you're better than someone just because they work at walmart.
Re: coocoocachoo – Ha ha…it is so funny when the studios trot out their plants/drones who pretend to be against the writers to spam boards like this so readers will think people are against the writers. 78 percent of Americans support the writers!
So crawl back in your hole and suck off that CEO for your money SCAB!
Both sides in the dispute are immovable and probably equally self-serving, but one has to wonder exactly what it is that the writers are trying to get, and by extension, establish. There is the right of the union to strike and there is the right of the businessmen to operate their businesses, but this present issue might be encroaching on a more fundamental proposition — who owns the business, the employer or the employee?
Leno (and Conan) still drew in more viewers than Letterman by a couple of million households. They're both between a rock & a hard place - members of the Writers Guild and hosts of their own programs. Tough call, but if the Guild is allowing some things to go on and others not to, then I have to question their motives when they send these mixed messages. Either stirke or don't - but don't give in to some and not others. Make up your minds already because now it's becoming annoying.
Re: walmart workers rules!!!!! – WELL THEY WOULDN'T HAVE TO WORK AT WALMART IF THEY'D STOOD UP FOR THEIR RIGHTS 20 YEARS AGO LIKE THE WRITERS ARE DOING. WHY IS IT OKAY TO BASH THE WRITERS AND NOT THE PEOPLE WHO CAPITULATED TO THE POWER 20 YEARS AGO, RUINED THEIR COMMUNITIES, AND NOW WORK AT WALMART FOR MINIMUM WAGE AND WANT TO DRAG THE REST OF THE WORKERS DOWN WITH THEM? THEY ARE NO HEROES!
Re: mary hartman – You know, I did support the writers, and still do - to some extent. But they need to be united and not make exceptions. Isn't that the strength in a successful strike? So, any wavering of support from the general public (and others) is a result of the writers own actions.
Jay Rocks… screw the WGA!!!!! Bunch of greedy bastards
Re: x – Is that how you maintain your indifference? Drugs?
fuck those stupid striking prima-donna's!
Jay stated on his show that it's not a violation if he writes and presents his own material, which he was very careful to do. He said that was the rule, according to the SWG.
And speaking of Wal-Mart - - When did they abandon 'Made in America' products for 'Made in China' products? They use to brag about "Made in the USA" - now they don't brag - they just sell cheap Chinese stuff.
The writers are starting to annoy me. The whole point of striking is to have all of your members striking, not making deals with certain shows so some writers are allowed to work and the rest aren't. Some awards shows are allowed to happen and some aren't. It's ridiculous. It should be all or nothing. They have no credibility in my eyes.
Re: Lamb Chop – Letterman owns his company and gave the writers what they demanded. Everything they demanded. Personally I am with you…but moreso…I think EVERYONE should strike en masse - like Paris in 1968. Look at all the privileges and benefits the French people won by doing so (despite the fact that Sarkozy wants to reverse these things to some extent because the economy can no longer support everything they won) but the fact is THEY WON! They won because students, transporation workers, professors, industrial workers, shop keepers, everyone marched in the streets at the same time! THAT's how you do a real STRIKE! People forgot that with Reagan somehow and the standard of living FOR MOST AMERICANS has been declining ever since.
I'm getting so sick of these f**king writers. People don't give a crap about them anymore. Dave's an ass anyway that couldn't write any material if he tried. At least Jay can write his own stuff and still be funny.
I'm getting so sick of these f**king writers. People don't give a crap about them anymore. Dave's an ass anyway that couldn't write any material if he tried. At least Jay can write his own stuff and still be funny.
I'm getting so sick of these f**king writers. People don't give a crap about them anymore. Dave's an ass anyway that couldn't write any material if he tried. At least Jay can write his own stuff and still be funny.
Some of you are such morons!!! The WGA wants to make a deal with the producers. Dave's company made them the deal they wanted. The WGA isn't being selective — if you give them the deal, you get your writers.
Ellen is also a member of the WGA but she didn't violate their rules by writing her own monologue. Jay is stupid — especially since NBC is apparently forcing him to leave the show next year against his wishes. Why should he do anything for them.
AND TO THE MORON WHO SAID "we'll watch movies…." WHO THE HELL DO YOU THINK WRITES THE MOVIES?
Dumb asses!
I think most people are sick of hearing about the writer's strike. Give me a break. Most of us aren't in unions and don't give a shit. Unions are ruining this country
I think most people are sick of hearing about the writer's strike. Give me a break. Most of us aren't in unions and don't give a shit. Unions are ruining this country
For chrissakes, this guy was shelling out -and i know this for a FACT-250k A WEEK to pay his staff while these writers were on strike. If he doesn't go back to work, he will go broke. Or quit paying and let his staff go broke. There are 179 people who are being supported for the last 2 months by him. The WGA should just shut up, and I'm a writer saying that.
I think the writers should be fired. Hire new writers they probably be better the old ones anyway.
So what if Letterman owns the show, he still sells it to CBS who then does what they want with it. If they want residuals, then how can they sign off on Letterman. Watch them fold under the pressure for the Golden Globes as well. Not too mention all the scab writers' who are members of the WGA who are writing, just not putting their names on them. Nice leadership….
leno still beats letterman in ratings even without writers….
I say fire all the writers and hire new people. Are people that stupid? Look at the World…people need jobs. Make a deal or move on….Jay is looking out for his people who have families to feed. Anyway I'm sure we'll soon see movie stars "crossing the line" too. Lets get real they want to make money too. Hypocrites
I say fire all the writers and hire new people. Are people that stupid? Look at the World…people need jobs. Make a deal or move on….Jay is looking out for his people who have families to feed. Anyway I'm sure we'll soon see movie stars "crossing the line" too. Lets get real they want to make money too. Hypocrites
the writers are definitely greedy. I produce renderings for architecture firms that net 5,000 each when sold to the clients. how much do you think i make off that? not even 10 percent of that. Its unfair but im glad i have a job, architecture firms would simply just hire someone else to do it. which is what the shows should do. hire writers who want to work.
What the fuck? How could Leno NOT know about the rules? This strike has been the biggest story in show business for two months and he doesn't bother to check and see what the rules are? What a douche. And by the way, I flipped back and forth between both Letterman and Leno last night and they were both terrible except for the Robin Williams appearance on Letterman, which was funny. Letterman is not funny anymore and Leno is too much of a kiss ass to do any edgy humor. I tried to watch Conan after Leno and turned that off after ten minutes because it was painful. They should have continued supporting the strike instead of televising this shit.
Hey, networks, fire all the writers like Reagan did in the 80's to the air controllers and hire new writers. There are writers out there that don't belong to the guild and will be happy to have a job. $250,000 and the writers are complaining, whatever.
I don't know how to feel about the writers, because in reality i don't really know what they are asking for or being offered. BUT…the wga keeps wanting sag to support the writers, but i feel sort of bad for the new actors who got noms. how awful would that be to get a big break and not get to go to the red carpet? Also, economically speaking, strikes are not beneficial for anybody. Think of all the production crew out of jobs! Strikes are an economic accident. And if SAG strikes this summer like they are planning too (the most idiotic thing i've ever heard) and i saw a single A-lister, hell any celebrity on a picket line, i think i'd vomit. Wow, so really, that 10 mil you made last year wasn't enough?
Okay, this writers strike is RIDICULOUS and it's time for it to end. Yes, the writers aren't getting the money for the DVDS… but they're getting a hell of a lot more money than I am and they're actually doing something that they love. Jay Leno and Conan O'Brien HAD to get back to their shows because they're are NON UNION writers who haven't had any income because of this. They are just doing what's right and everyone needs to get over it.
Okay, this writers strike is RIDICULOUS and it's time for it to end. Yes, the writers aren't getting the money for the DVDS… but they're getting a hell of a lot more money than I am and they're actually doing something that they love. Jay Leno and Conan O'Brien HAD to get back to their shows because they're are NON UNION writers who haven't had any income because of this. They are just doing what's right and everyone needs to get over it.
they're both scabs and have paid standup comics to write jokes for them for years. the guild looks the other way, now they're having to deal with it.
JAY IS A SCAB! I WON'T WATCH HIS SHOW UNTIL THE STRIKE IS OVER!!!
LETTERMAN ROCKS!
Screw the writers. Jay and his wife should be able to write for his show. What they write can't be any worse than the usual crap they write for him.
Hey Jeesh, moron, do the writers striking prevent me from watching movies in the theatre now or renting them in the store now? No. So like I said, I don't care. I seriously doubt this blip on the radar of a strike will affect future movies being put out there but if it does, guess what, still don't care. Most TV and movies suck anyway so less of them isn't really a problem. They have a right to strike and I have a right to not give a flying rip.
You Perez readers lack any understaning of the WGA strike. These are working, creative individuals striking against international corporations who don't want to pay the writers anything for their work streamed over the internet. Meanwhile, the corporations are earning literally billions of dollars on this work. The WGA fight is your fight, assuming you are a working person who earns less than, say, a million dollars a year.
Jay is a scabbing, strike-breaker, worse than the fat cat AMPTP because he pretends to support the writers. Hypocrite!
i like jaaay leno waaaay more then letterman
SCREW THE STRIKE I WANT MY GOSSIP GIRL BACCCCK
Jay wrote his own monologue for a change… wow, no wonder I actually laughed…
Seriously, the idea of unions are so out dated. There is a time and place for everything, and at some point, there was a place for unions… these days.. it's just an excuse to bitch… be happy you have a job, be happy you have a roof over your head.
LETTERMAN WILL ALWAYS BE NUMBER ONE OVER LENO.
LENO'S "JOKES" ALWAYS SEEM TO MAKE FUN OF PEOPLE, PUT THEM DOWN.
THAT'S NOT HUMOR, IT'S JUST MEAN.
I THINK LENO IS SICKING.
GO DAVE !
Re: Mary-Helen –
HE'S A MULTI-MILLIONARE, HAVE HIM GO HELP OUT THE HOMELESS HERE IN THE USA, THAT SHOULD KEEP HIM BUSY UNTIL THE STRIKE IS OVER.
Re: Celeste –
FIRST OF ALL, PLEASE DON'T PUT ALL PEREZ "PEOPLE" INTO ONE GROUP.
SECOND, I AGREE WITH EVERYTHING ELSE YOU WROTE. WELL SAID.
Fuck the WGA and their rules, Fine strike, but they don't need to fuck everyone else over with their shit, the writers arent the only employees there.
this writers strike is simply greed. they are paid well. It is getting old. hoped they would get a good settlement but now hope they get nothing. GO LENO!!!!
I support the writters and think they deservive a fair pay. But what is 'fair' can be debated.
To quote Jay: "It was basicly 19 people putting 120 people out of work for 2 months."
He supports the union and didn't hire new writters. He wrote the jokes himself like back in the day when he first started the show without writters.
LENO SUCKS – SUBSERVIVE RIGHT WING POLITICAL ADVOCATE… HUCKABEE SUCKS TOO!
When are the writers gonna clean the sand out of their vagina.
For fucks sake im so over reading it.
Some people like Leno just wanna get on with things
WHO'S THAT FROG WITH LENO? HIS BUTT BUDDY? TEE HEE….I'M TOO FUNNY