Late-night comedy shows were shut down on the very first day of the ongoing Writers Guild’s strike, but many of their now out-of-work writers are banding together to put on a weekly YouTube Channel…
Lampooning studio bosses for refusing to pay writers an additional sliver of their companies’ profits, Stewart quipped, “Come on. That’s not a lot of cash. It’s what the studio heads would normally call ‘pocket yacht money.’”
Or as Stewart put it, “We’re two of the many writers who will be reading these strike propaganda jokes, so if you’re like, ‘I want to watch someone more attractive,’ just wait a week.” “As the studios continue to move into streaming, but especially as they move into the free ad-supported space where stuff looks more and more like old TV,” he said, “you’re going to be seeing more late-night television, soap operas and game shows in the digital space. And right now, we have no protections there. We don’t have a payment amount; we don’t have contract-linked minimums; we don’t have residuals, really. We’re in the Wild West.
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