No More Woke Late Night: Hollywood Writer’s Guild Goes On Strike Leaving Kimmel, Colbert, Fallon In The Dark

On Monday, the Writer’s Guild of America announced that they will be going on strike, the first in 15 years, in reaction to lagging pay as inflation and other job opportunities in the streaming sector outcompete their salaries.

“The decision was made following six weeks of negotiating with Netflix, Amazon, Apple, Disney, Warner Bros Discovery, NBC Universal, Paramount+ and Sony under the umbrella of the AMPTP,” the Writer’s Guild wrote on Twitter.

“Though our Negotiating Committee began this process intent on making a fair deal, the studios’ responses have been wholly insufficient given the existential crisis writers are facing,” the group continued, adding, “Picketing will begin tomorrow afternoon.”

The Writer’s Guild argues that they are underpaid and overworked by the production studios. As of Tuesday, all script writing has ceased leading to various delays in television production.

In addition, the late-night shows, ‘The Late Show with Stephen Colbert’, ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’, ‘The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon’, ‘Late Night with Seth Meyers’, and ‘The Daily Show’, are all going on hiatus with reruns scheduled for the week, as reported by Vanity Fair.

Many of the late-night hosts came out in solidarity with their writers including Colbert who posted an image on social media with his writing team and dedicated a segment on his Monday show.

“Without these people, this show would be called ‘The Late Show with a guy rambling about Lord of the Rings and boats for an hour’,” Colbert joked. “The writers’ demands are not unreasonable. I’m a member of the guild. I support collective bargaining. This nation owes so much to unions.” 

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“I support my writers,” Jimmy Fallon said at the Met Gala. “We have a lot of staff and crew that will be affected by this but, you know, they got to get a fair deal.”

The strike comes as the WGA directors explained that their union members are facing an “existential crisis,” as reported by Fox Business.

“The companies’ behavior has created a gig economy inside a union workforce, and their immovable stance in this negotiation has betrayed a commitment to further devaluing the profession of writing,” the union wrote in a statement. “From their refusal to guarantee any level of weekly employment in episodic television, to the creation of a ‘day rate’ in comedy variety, to their stonewalling on free work for screenwriters and on AI for all writers, they have closed the door on their labor force and opened the door to writing as an entirely freelance profession. No such deal could ever be contemplated by this membership.”

In response to the WGA’s demands, the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP), who represent production studios, said that they offered “generous increases in compensation for writers as well as improvements in streaming residuals.”

While the writer’s guild is taking unprecedented action to raise their wages, Americans will have to go without their late-night shows for the next few days. Conservative Americans are probably happy not having to endure woke virtual signaling and lackluster jokes.

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