Late-Night Comedy Scribes Find New Outlet

Blogs allow 'fun of working, without stress or pay'; talks resume
By Lucas Laursen,  Newser Staff
Posted Nov 26, 2007 1:44 PM CST
Late-Night Comedy Scribes Find New Outlet
A placard showing Dorothy from the film "Wizard of Oz" is seen as thousands of Writers Guild of America (WGA) writers along with actors, musicians, politicians and members from other unions march down Hollywood Boulevard Tuesday, Nov. 20, 2007, in Los Angeles on the 16th day of the WGA strike against...   (Associated Press)

Striking late-night comedy writers have some serious issues—no jobs and, worse, no creative outlet. When the jokes went from "60 to zero," in the words of a "Colbert Report" staffer, many aimed new blogs and videos squarely at the studios on the other side of the picket line. The result? A platform and a growing audience, reports the LA Times.

Says a Letterman writer of LateShowWritersOnStrike.com, "It's all the fun of working on the show, without the stress or the pay." The sites, a stark contrast to professional publicity machines, may have contributed to the studios' agreement to resume talks. Negotiations today went so well that an end to the 4-week job action is near, reports Deadline Hollywood Daily. (More Hollywood writers' strike stories.)

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