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Actually I think all the night-time shows' hosts have been paying crew. Daly paid for 1 week, but then he went back to work without writers so the crew wouldn't be let go. I guess he doesn't have the same cash reserves of Letterman, Leno, etc. I think I heard that Letterman was the first, and Leno was the last succumbing to a bit of peer pressure.
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I think Leno may be getting a bad rap for this, considering, A) his company doesn't actually own the Tonight Show, B) NBC has been quite obviously in elbowing him out for Conan soon, and C) only a few days had actually gone by between the time the lay-offs were announced and Jay said he was shelling out money for them. Considering Jay had shown his solidarity with the writers from early on by walking off the show, I'm not about to penalize him because he didn't make an announcment earlier.Comment
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Didn't mean to sound like I was penalizing him -- he's shelling out the bucks, and in my book that's pretty damn good. I don't know how much a crew like that costs a week, but I bet he's contributing more than the cost of donuts for the strike lines!"That was the law, as set down by Valen. Three castes: worker, religious, warrior."Comment
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I wasn't knocking your comments; just making a general observation about how Leno seemed to be getting some bad press out of the situation, a bit unfairly I think.Comment
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The whole peer pressure attitude with the talk show hosts made me a bit sick, honestly. There seemed to be a whole lot of 'armchair quarterbacks' deciding what the Hosts should be doing with their own money.
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