Strike Update: Jimmy Kimmel Joins Leno and O’Brien for January Return
The late-night talk-show hosts are returning to their gigs like all get out. First, it was Conan O’Brien issuing a statement Monday regarding his plans to resume Late Night with Conan O’Brien on Wednesday, January 2. Jay Leno’s statement then followed within a nanosecond, alerting the public that The Tonight Show with Jay Leno will resume on the very same date.
Now that NBC’s post-primetime schedule is entirely intact again for the early New Year, here comes word from ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel on Tuesday evening that his early-morning gabfest Jimmy Kimmel Live will get back to business on January 2, as well. The three-sentence (he’s not a man of many words these days, is he?) announcement follows.
Though it makes me sick to do so without my writers, there are more than a hundred people whose financial well-being depends on our show. It is time to go back to work. I support my colleagues and friends in the WGA completely and hope this ends both fairly and soon.
Sounds pretty much like the same song and dance that his NBC colleagues offered, although O’Brien at least had the consideration to put together three whole paragraphs as opposed to just three redundant sentences—or four in the case of Leno.
So, tell me? If non-Writers Guild member Carson Daly is a scab, as so many were quick to label him, does that mean Writers Guild members O’Brien, Leno, and now Kimmel are, too? And how about David Letterman and his fellow ABC/Worldwide Pants yakker Craig Ferguson, yet two more union men, who’ll inevitably be returning sooner rather than later? Or does less talent give people more of a right to point fingers at the creatively-challenged? Hmmm…
If you want to know how some individuals with very strong opinions about the strike feel, just take a gander at the comments on the recent Deadline Hollywood Daily post “WGA Reminds Returning Jay And Conan: No Monologues.” [Warning: The commenters use strong language liberally]
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