US SCREENWRITERS STILL ON STRIKE BUT LATE NIGHT HOST RETURN AFTER A TWO MONTH LAYOFF
January 4th 2008 19:59
US late-night TV hosts have returned to the air after a two-month hiatus, displaying support for striking writers and plenty of creative time stretchers, according to AP which filed unusually witty report.
AP said, “David Letterman walked onstage amid dancing girls holding picket signs. His writers are back on the job, but Jay Leno, Conan O'Brien and Jimmy Kimmel returned without theirs.
“Leno, however, offered a monologue that included jokes he said he had crafted beforehand. Whether that violated rules of the striking Writers Guild of America - to which Leno belongs - was not immediately clear.
AP said that Leno joked that the walkout, "has already cost the town over half a billion dollars. Five hundred million dollars! Or as Paul McCartney calls that, 'A divorce'."
- From MediaBlab
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