Filed under: Late Night, Industry, Celebrities, WGA Strike
Jay Leno is in trouble with the WGA. When he returned to late night TV on Wednesday, he told his audience that he wrote the jokes for his monologue and that he wasn’t relying on “scabs” to do his writing. It was a proud proclamation on his part, but it turns out that he was still violating the rules of the WGA strike. As a member of the WGA, he’s not granted to write. The WGA has met with Leno and let him know he broke the rules, and now the guild is trying to determine whether Leno needs to be punished.
Other late night hosts like Conan O’Brien and Jimmy Kimmel returned without writers and obviously without any sort of scripts. Conan spent a good part of last week spinning his wedding ring on his desk. David Letterman and Craig Ferguson also returned last week, but they’ve writers because Worldwide Pants, which produces both shows, came to an agreement with the WGA.
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