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SoCalDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-04-08 04:21 PM
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Jay Leno could face disciplinary action from WGA
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CHICAGO (MarketWatch) -- "Tonight Show" host Jay Leno could face disciplinary action from the Writers Guild of America for writing his monologue while the nearly 2-month-old writers strike continues.

Leno, a member of the guild, met Thursday with WGA West President Patric Verrone to discuss his decision to pen his opening segment. NBC's "The Tonight Show" had resumed the taping of new shows Wednesday.

During the meeting, Leno was told that "writing for 'The Tonight Show' constitutes a violation of the strike rules,' the WGA said in a statement. NBC's "Late Night With Conan O'Brien" and ABC's "Jimmy Kimmel Live" also returned this week without their writers, but the hosts of those shows -- also WGA members -- have not openly defied the union's restrictions about writing during the strike.

" was pretty flagrant in saying he wrote his monologue," said Sherry Goldman, a spokeswoman for WGA East. "The other hosts ... found a way around it." The WGA worked out a deal last week with Worldwide Pants, the production company of "Late Show with David Letterman" and "Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson," to resume new shows with their writing staffs on board. It's not yet clear what would happen to Leno if he continues to write monologues in the midst of the strike, but he could be brought before the WGA's disciplinary committee, Goldman said.

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spanone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-04-08 04:22 PM
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1. Leno a member of SAG/AFTRA and the band Musicians Local 47 all crossed picket lines
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aquart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-04-08 04:30 PM
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7. No sympathy strike clause in the SAG contract.
The actors have to work if called to work. Same for all the other unions EXCEPT the Teamsters who can refuse to cross the picket line if they feel they are in fear of their lives.

They walk the picket line on their own time, however.
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gratuitous Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-04-08 04:23 PM
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2. Half his income taken for the WGA strike fund?
Or would 3/4 be a more fitting penalty?
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sallyseven Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-04-08 04:24 PM
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3. What do you want he is a GOP Pig.
Always has been. I never watch him.
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aquart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-04-08 04:28 PM
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6. You do know he's been paying salaries?
Out of his own pocket?
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tularetom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-04-08 04:24 PM
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4. Disciplinary action sounds sorta kinky
I'd recommend waterboarding.

You had to know Leno would turn out to be a management suckup scab.

The sackless bastard.
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SoCalDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-04-08 04:25 PM
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5. He's always been a suck-up toady
:)
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DangerDave921 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-04-08 04:36 PM
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8. wow
I'm sure that really terrifies him. Oooh -- disciplinary action!

The guy's trying to keep his show going, and keep all the other staffers with jobs too. He's stuck in a difficult spot.
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book_worm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-04-08 04:37 PM
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9. Leno is a scab
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FyurFly Donating Member (512 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-04-08 04:49 PM
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10. Fuck unions n/t
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LostinVA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-04-08 04:52 PM
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11. Wow -- I think you may be lost
I know this other website that you would probably love, though.
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frylock Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-04-08 05:00 PM
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13. robber barons RULE!!111!
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Mojambo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-04-08 05:07 PM
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14. Yeah! Working people... Pathetic, scumsucking fuckers! How dare they look after their own interests.
:eyes:
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John Q. Citizen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-04-08 05:08 PM
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15. Fuck capitalistic pig owners. Fuck capitilism. Fuck the leisure class. Fuck enemies of
the workinging class.
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spanone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-04-08 05:41 PM
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18. pfft
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TommyO Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-04-08 05:48 PM
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19. Yes, heaven forbid working people join together to better their lives.
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blondeatlast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-04-08 06:02 PM
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21. Fuck FyurFly. nt
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Fierce Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-04-08 04:54 PM
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12. Scab.
He's a scab.
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RC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-04-08 05:33 PM
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16. All Leno really did was take notes of what popped into his own head.
Leave him alone already.
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blondeatlast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-04-08 05:34 PM
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17. Scabs suck festering infected sores--and Leno's a scab.
Get busy, you talentless hack.
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bullwinkle428 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-04-08 05:48 PM
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20. He showed his true feelings by not sporting the "solidarity beard" that
Letterman and Conan have been going with since the strike began...
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