Carson Daly: Late Night Tool!
Now the pets have something to say. PLEASE, execs let the writers have their rights! Think of all the puppies... and their skateboards!
So Carson (TOOL) Daley gave a earnest plea of why he is the first and only "late night" show (martyr) airing during the strike last night. Sounded legit, but... if you watched that first video, here's a still that "blips" in at the end.
All the other "late night" shows that he allies himself with have managed to cover their "peeps." He'd like to make everyone think that he has so much integrity and that he's taking one for his "peeps", but in reality, he's just a shill unwilling to play on the right side of the picket line. Here are some of his words from last night:
"If I had not been back on the air tonight, 75 members of my loyal staff and crew were going to get laid off."
He was faced with "an ultimatum, if you will," from the network that boiled down to: "You either come back or they're laid off. I said, `Let's turn the lights on, I'm gonna come back.' It's that simple."
"Last Call" thus became the first to break ranks among the six broadcast late-night talk shows, which, since Nov. 5, all had aired repeats rather than tape new shows without their striking writers.
"I don't know what we're gonna do, moving forward the rest of the week," Daly said. "But I'll figure it out."
Production on Daly's Burbank-based talk show, which tapes several days ahead, resumed last Wednesday, with the Writers Guild expressing "profound disappointment."
The only late-night host who's not a member of the Writers Guild, Daly had said in a statement, "I feel I have supported my four Guild writers and their strike by suspending production for a month."
After last week, NBC effectively laid off the nonstriking staffs of the network's two other late-night shows. They, along with "Last Call," are owned by Universal Media Studios, which, like NBC, is a unit of General Electric.
But Conan O'Brien stepped forward to personally cover the salaries of his nonstriking "Late Night" staff at least this week, as did Jay Leno for his "Tonight Show" staff. Both of those shows are continuing to air repeats.
In mid-November, staffers of CBS' "Late Show with David Letterman" and "Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson" were similarly promised payment at least through December by Letterman, whose production company, Worldwide Pants, owns both shows.
And staffers for ABC's "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" so far have continued to be paid by the network, which is owned by the Walt Disney Co.
People make mistakes, Carson. Take for instance everyone who ever told you that you had talent.
And here's David Schussel. Obviously not capitalizing on the strikes attention: