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Steve Martin Uses Patented Tongue-In-Cheek Technology To Rip Strike Scab Jay Leno A New One
The decade's best Oscars host Steve Martin (we still cherish his Best Actor intro line, "gay poet, crazed artist, a shipwrecked victim, a roman gladiator....but enough about me...") stopped by the Late Show with David Letterman last night to catch up with his old friend. Touching upon the topic of the writers strike, Martin, like so many of his fellow scribes, suddenly found himself with an abundance of free time, which he chose to fill by "writing movie scripts and TV pilots...and then I would sell them to the studios." More »
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By SethComment by SugartitsMcFirecrotch: @el smrtmnky: For you, doll - anytime! more » | Other threads
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NBC Uses Fear Of Jeff Zucker's Wrath To Scare 'SNL' Writers Away From Doing Letterman's Top Ten List
Did upward-failing NBC Universal Chief Executive Golden Boy Jeff Zucker, enraged at the galling disloyalty of striking SNL writers who planned to participate in the delivery of a Top Ten list on hated CBS talk-show rival David Letterman's WGA-sanctioned return to the airwaves last Wednesday night, threaten to dispatch a flock of ravenous, flesh-craving demon-peacocks to eat the defenseless babies of anyone who dared betray their corporate family by appearing on a competing network's late-night telecast? Sources tell Slate's Kim Masters that once Zucker got word of the impending treachery, Warnings Were Issued, and a hasty retreat beaten by some of those reminded where their bread was buttered: More »
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By MarkComment by Imnotatnbc: Someone at NBC simply invoked Zucker's name in trying to stampede the writers off the show, the spokesman contends, adding,... more » | Other threads
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Strike Turns Jay Leno And Jimmy Kimmel Into Unlikely Couchfellows
The WGA's displeasure with The Tonight Show host Jay Leno's self-penned monologues only continues to grow—while Conan O'Brien seems to get a pass, exempt under the "Actually Funny" clause—to the point where NBC has felt the need to issue a statement on the matter. Meanwhile, with SAG boycotting decrees making it increasing difficult to get even B-list asses on non-Worldwide Pants couches, the comedian has found an unlikely ally in another late night rival: More »
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By SethComment by Sweet Panda Love: Remember to ask for a reach-around, Jimmy. more » | Other threads
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The Venn Diagram Guide To Talk-Show Beards
Easily the biggest news that came out of Wednesday's mass return to the airwaves by late-night's long-sidelined talk-show hosts was the unexpected appearance of David Letterman and Conan O'Brien's competing Strike Beards, a solidarity-signifying facial hair trend so hot that the clean-shaven visages of Jay Leno and Jimmy Kimmel now seem to indicate a conspicuous lack of support for the hosts' still-picketing writing staffs. (The embattled Carson Daly, we've been told, plans to smash his trusty Norelco electric shaver on his next show in an attempt to prove his commitment to the WGA cause, no matter how unflattering the resulting patchy growth may be.) More »
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By MarkComment by SFCANSUCKIT: Shouldn't Katie Holmes be in there somewhere? (am i going to get in trouble with the church for writing that?) more » | Other threads
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By MarkComment by TruthandConsequences: Some guys can grow real beards (Dave), other guys (Conan) grow facial hair that just looks like transplanted groin hair... more » | Other threads
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By SethComment by metroville: Most entertaining part of that monologue? The ever-present reminder of "American Gladiators". more » | Other threads
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Letterman May Go Back To Work With Writers, While Returning Conan And Leno Go It Alone
It's looking like our long national nightmare of a rerun-plagued late-night network schedule is finally coming to an end, even as the WGA strike stretches on into the new year; over the weekend, the NY Times reported that David Letterman's Worldwide Pants, the independent producer of The Late Show and The Late Late Show, was trying to reach its own CBS-circumventing deal with the Guild to get back on the air with its writing staff; this morning, NBC has announced that both Conan O'Brien and Jay Leno are headed back to work on January 2nd without writers, a move that O'Brien explains was necessary to keep his bosses from pulling the trigger on the gun pointed at his staff's collective temple. Reports Variety: More »
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