Top Ten Demands Of The Striking Writers | Letterman
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- Опубликовано: 16 июл 2023
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(From "Late Show," air date: 1/2/08)
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Today was a rough one. I work for the biggest film rental equipment company in Canada. This morning 29 extremely dedicated and hardworking people were laid off from our warehouse, and all other Canadian locations were completely closed. Leaving one location with a very small skeleton crew. The few large production companies that rule this industry have just left so many people who live paycheque to paycheque now unemployed. The EI based off of what we make doesn't even cover rent for 99% of the people living here. I wish rental house employees were a part of a film union, we are the backbone of this industry, without us you wouldn't have any of your lights, expendables , stands, generators, cable, distro, dolly's, and in some houses camera's or anything required to make the magic happen. I 100% stand by the writers and the actors in this strike, and I hope this brings positive changes for all film workers overall. We all deserve fair pay and treatment.
Anyone thinks this guy is exaggerating? The min wage in Toronto is $12.40 US and a small one bedroom can be at least $2100/month US. These hard working people are one paycheck away from being homeless. It galls me big stars make millions while the back breaking work of the minions goes unnoticed. "Get another job" is a stupid argument, don't go there.
Who was it who said they want to see you guys lose your homes?
@@AC3handle Not sure, but he better hope Ron Perlman doesn't find out.
@@regan9114 ron did, and made the video he made.
Are you referring to Whites?
The fact The View is still on air in 2023 is criminal and incomprehensible.
My take away from this too lol
Huh? Thanks for the brilliant insight.
Wow Alan Zweibel and Nora Ephron? Those are heavy hitters.
Dave’s got timely content for everything
That's because history keeps repeating itself .
The fact that Dave can consistently pull out an old video that's relevant to today's problems shows how ahead of the curve he always was.
Making Don Giller work for his consulting money!
And how we haven't progressed in the last 15 years.
Well everything they were talking about was fully relevant to the time they were in
Yeah. For a couple of seconds, I thought Dave trimmed his beard and came out of retirement just to do a top 10 list about the writers strike, only to realize that this was from 2008.
@@malvavisco10 Agreed. But the point was Dave was always on the right side of history back in the day. I remember him calling out Trump years before he was even involved in politics on matters like his finances. There was one episode where Trump was complaining that we were losing economically to China, and Dave pulled out Trump's clothing line, all made in China.
I love that the band played them on with Gimme Some Money by Spinal Tap
Oh, wow, i didn't notice that. I had to go back and listen, and i think you're right!
They could have played, Lick my Love Pump too!
Alan Zweibel has been late night royalty since the early days of SNL. Awesome to see him in this list.
Gods I miss the Letterman show. The world has been poorer in his absence
Letterman Leno Craig Conan Jon Stewart replacements have been downgrades and late night overall has seen ratings fall
Dave paid his people out of his own Pocket during the strike 🤑
His net worth is $400M+ just from doing a talk show, what his "people" got paid was pennies to him. He would've lost more money if the show didn't go on than what he paid them.
@@UnsaltedCashew38 he paid them while they were striking and I maybe remembering this wrong but I think late night didn't stay on air thru the strike.
@@kellywalker9827 Even if that were true, it's all risk mitigation. If he didn't pay them? he risks them quitting or creating poor quality content in the future. Without his writers letterman is nothing, imagine getting paid $45M a year while your staff get
@@UnsaltedCashew38geez some people always have to bring the hate!! Letterman did a good thing which he did not have to do!
@@michaeldodd6864 You're right, good guy letterman that earned more per hour than his employees make in a year. Are you one of those guys that wear a "I love the CEO" shirts to work? Get real, most humans operate out of self-interest. He got rich standing on the backs of those writers, paying them wages so they don't go on food stamps was the least he could do. He did it to save himself, not for their benefit.
What disappoints me is that these strikes keep happening and we know exactly how to avoid them, but the executives just don't care.
Squeezing blood from a stone is the way in unfettered capitalism.
It's called greed...
It’s almost like capitalism is set up to keep the rich rich and the poor poor
Hollywood could go belly up, and the CEOs will just be living it up in Rio without a second thought.
Is once in 11 years a pattern ?
It's makes my heart warm seeing Dwight the Troubled Teen (#2) grow up and get a nice union job.
here are the 3 main demands from the WGA:
1) the writers want to control how often/much AI is used to write scripts, not the production company or studio
2) the writers want streaming services to do more than 8-12 episodes per "season" and do a more traditional 20-24 episodes so they get paid more of the year per writing job. 8-12 takes 3-4 months, and 20-24 will take 10-11 months.
3) they want higher royalties from streaming services based on viewership for their titles, and those royalties to last in perpetuity, not 1-3 years.
1 and 2 are pretty unreasonable. 3 seems fair though.
No more residuals because shows never last long enough. In days of network TV shows had a chance to last years if it was popular. They were also allowed to find its audience.
Damn, I thought Dave came out of retirement to do this lol
Fifteen years later, and demand #1 still hasn’t been met.
Nice musical cue by Paul and the band - “Gimme Some Money” by Spinal Tap
Nora Ephron -- R.I.P. (2012)
"I want a date with a woman!" 🤣
that was the best. the delivery was perfect.
Dave is right on time as usual.
Dave's Beard: The Origin Story
"I'd like a date with a woman" OMFG how awful that must be today.
I know, Right?? It almost seemed quaint!
Impressive that they got Nora Ephron (R.I.P.) to do #4.
Dave’s show is better than ever!
More should watch!
I stand with the workers of Hollywood and encourage them to keep this up until every single one of their demands is met or Hollywood itself is dissolved... Whichever comes first.
Maybe we’d all become more productive. Sad and depressed, but productive.
@@goodtroublemaker143 I am already sad and depressed, so I welcome being more productive.
Well, there's your sign. You'd be content with the loss of millions of jobs and 100s of billions in economic impact to satisfy less than 200,000 people, of which many will see no difference in their situation regardless of a positive negotiation.
Id stand with them more if they put on more of the actors that have to work two or three extra jobs just to make ends meet instead of the "stars"
Their demands for minimum staffing are ridiculous. Acting like they are the only reasonable ones is foolish.😊
If we don't learn from history we are doomed to repeat it. That's a famous saying. Who forgot?
Warren Leight! Also a very accomplished playwright.
Nora Ephron (?) surprised me.
"#1. Producers must immediately remove their heads from their asses"... Now that's what you call win-win. 🙃
Sad, in a way, how so little has changed.
2:06 RIP Nora.
The only difference between this 2008 Top ten and a hypothetical Top 10 made today is that instead of "hypothermia from the strike" it would be "heat stoke from the strike," with an added comment about how the studios intentionally prunned the trees to eliminate shade.
Picket umbrellas should be a thing. They can provide shade from the sun and protection from rain. Paint them up, instead of cardboard signs.
Letterman always on top BaBy!!😁👍🏻
I am totally for all the striking SAG-AFTRA WGA folks. I hope show runners and producers still pay all the other staff members if they can. Hope it all works out but it's for the people who waited tables in between two years of call backs and writers who are on staff for and don't work for many.
I hope you’ve cancelled all your streaming services as they come up for renewal.. the best way to help is to drive down the companies revenues under the current crop of multi millionaire CEO’s.
@@vrvaughn I'm poor so it wasn't a problem. Although Google does know more about me than my beneficiaries for some reason....granted all I have to besiege is a microwave a tin of tide pods and a quilt given to me by a nun (all of this is true btw I'm not being funny)
yeah ... there's only one guarantee in life --- that there are NO guarantees in life.
I want to be cancelled by every type of whining group of whiners please.
@@Rick-C-117Done! Your cancellation has been registered with WWGASC (Whining Whiners of the Greater American Subcontinent) and you are now officially Cancelled.
If Liberal (or pretending to be Liberal) Please take a {ONE YEAR} break from all social media and live quietly apart from society in your Hollywood Hills mansion before being photographed going to a movie with someone new.
If Conservative, do nothing. Someone from Fox News will contact you shortly about your new recurring guest commentator role.
That aged well.
That last one (#1) is going to be VERY hard to do in this day and age.
have you SEEN the producer credits on...ANYTHING lately?
On television those are the writers. The EP, AP’s, plain old producer are the different tiers of writer. The only ones that don’t have producer in their title off the top of my head are, staff writer, story editor, script supervisor. The actual writer credit is the person from among those that pulled all the staffs ideas together for the finished script. That role is usually taken in turns and pays extra.
Aww, for a second there I thought that Modern Dave had trimmed his beard a bit, put on a suit, and with some clever greenscreen work to give him a set, actually given us something new from that bitter, sardonic brain... Ah well....
Nora Ephron. RIP
His razor went on strike
Imagine what the West Coast version of this Top 10 would be (since all the major studios are headquartered there anyway) with writers from Leno, Kimmel, and others!
Dave, you're always the best!!!!!!
But I'm wearing Worldwide Pants, or something.
A classy man standing up for a classy cause! ❤
Number one is applicable to all strikes.
This reminds me of how much I miss Dave.
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
OMG THE BEARD😂😂
Number 1, pay us more for all the ideas we steal from previous writers and call them reboots.
Bob Iger, Disney, makes $45 million per year
His salary is 3 million a year. The remainder is diluted stock.
Trust the Gorton's Fisherman....
Wow, they played “Gimme Some Money” by the 1960s version of Spinal Tap. That’s a deep cut!
Funny as hell list
Demand number 1 is very appropriate even today 👍👍
hope this writers and actors strike ends soon, get what they deserve and i miss my daily dose of late night shows ..
In 08??
The list holds up.
I remember Alan Zwibel from a few appearances on the original seasons of Saturday Night. A bit surprised that I do.
Hopefully an agreement can be reached soon with WGA and SAG-AFTRA.
Not likely. Looks like it’s going to get ugly
Hopefully they all end up homeless
When this strike is over, Colbert should invite Letterman over just to talk about THIS CLIP.
This and The Simpsons shows things never change.
Support workers ✊🏿
A: the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP). You may boo lustily now.
I miss Dave as well as Stephen Colbert!
You can still see nutjob Colbert dancing with syringes to a song about vaccines.
I thought Colbert was still on the air
Colbert? I don't think he's funny. He's so stiff, and feels over-prepared. The only one i think is any good now is Kimmel. I was a huge Letterman fan, and Kimmel is the only one that feels relaxed and effortless like that.
I was just thinking about this ... Barbara should scan Dave and Mary's likeness and use it for her show in any way she wants!
It really doesn't feel like it's been fifteen years.
_I_ dated a woman once. We broke up when she stopped wearing her paper bag.
Number 1? Ongoing
Nora Ephron, wow!
I think Lester became ChatGPT
dave king of late night
Can't believe these guys were writers and not performers.
15 years later and nothing changes. Where's my date with woman?
Quantum of solace was what is was because of the writers strike.
I’ve never heard of a union pay structure like SAG where some actors are being paid millions to be in a movie/show while others aren’t being paid enough to pay their own bills. Keanu Reeves received $30 million for being in Matrix Reloaded and Jerry Seinfeld is nearly a billionaire. Could you imagine if you had a few school teachers or fireman making millions while their coworkers weren’t making enough to pay their rent.
It's marketability. Keanu Reeves being in a movie will bring in way more people than the guy who plays a cop with no lines. Whereas no one cares about how charismatic or good looking their fireman is, so long as they can keep their house from burning down.
@@Leptonriffic isn’t that sort of favoritism exactly what unions are supposed to prevent?
So, never looked into pro sports, then, huh?
Matrix carried Reeves more than Reeves carried Matrix.
While I enjoyed watching Seth Meyers and Stephen Colbert, I found that I could do without them. Someone who submits ten jokes a day, two of which are picked and one of which is good, should be happy that he can make money from it at all. And don't get me started with people who throw balls through a hoop for a living.
@ThomasBond007 No? Unions exist to maintain a minimum standard of treatment an compensation for all members, to protect them. Not to prevent highly effective workers from being rewarded more.
As for the current strike, the demands of the writers and actors remind one of a fox terrier picking a fight with a Rottweiler.
You don't have to be a man shorter than 5'4" to be a writer, but it helps
Oh, ha, ha... This just belittles the current strike.
Even if the strikes are ended tomorrow, the crop of scripted shows for next year is gonna be _terrible._ We old farts remember the 1980 and 1988 writer strikes (well, I was five when the former one happened, but I know about it now), and the shows that turned up in 1981/89....Season 2 of Buck Rogers and Star Trek TNG, War Of The Worlds etc....were subpar, to say the least. 2024 is gonna make 1981's output look brilliant.
Or you get more of those awful reality shows that doesn't need actors or writers.
@@app103Or a bunch of overseas content like Squid Game.
Bro TNG season 2 was fire what are you talking about
Still fighting for number 7
Did Paul make a cute little song for his beard?
Tha beard!
Number 1 should have been a "fluffer" !!!
Nice to Nora Ephron again….miss her.
God I miss Dave! He was my bedtime buddy!!
Kinky
Nora Ephron was a surprise. I think she was a producer as well as a writer, so was she striking against herself? Also, who wrote this top ten list, scabs?
She must have been between books. I didn't know she "worked" in TV. (2) The list was probably outsourced to a scammer in India
Dave/Worldwide Pants accepted the contract terms the WGA had proposed to the AMPTP and they were able to go back on air while the strike was still ongoing.
@@sazookMaybe Colbert should do something similar!
@@ArtificialBanana Doubt he can. The reason Letterman was able to do it is because he owned the production company (Worldwide Pants) as well. The Colbert Late Show is at least partially owned/produced by CBS.
@@sazook Sounds right. Thanks for that info.
In some ways things are worse now... most time is spent watching on streaming platforms (often owned by the studios themselves) and the residuals they get off streaming are basically nothing. At the same time, compensation was always lower under the assumption that you're getting residuals too making the total package seem good (as long as everyone watches broadcast ad-supported TV) much like a salaried employee might be okay with $60k + $10k in stock options, rather than $70k. BUT, if the residuals don't materialize, the studios low-balled your base pay and didn't have to pay out residuals because streaming is "different".
Its idk management. Do I want a lump sum or based on the earnings. Issue I have is now the strikers want both.
But how did he manage this during a writers' strike back then?
Letterman and Leno are both natural standups and had decades of experience to rely upon for the last writers strike
Jimmy 1 Jimmy 2 Cordon REQUIRE writers to function
@@aleccampbell7707What? You think Dave didn’t rely on writers? This is complete fiction. Dave and his production company struck a separate deal with the writers union, accepting the writers’ terms and allowing the show to come back on the air.
@@aleccampbell7707And Leno is a natural used car salesman, but that’s about it.
Dave being Dave. If Leno had his way, scabs would've had The Tonight Show on without missing a beat ...
Leno is not the man he should be. "I'm retired, not retired, this porridge is too hot, retired again, nope need more money"
@@dicksonfranssen That was 30 years ago. Get over it already. They have.
@@richsackett3423 Boy I really feel bad now, thanks Mr Knowledge. Who are "they"? You and your nine subscribers? Do you have IBS? Intellectual Belittling Syndrome.
Fair demands.
How did they put on this show while the writers were on strike?
Dave mispronounced "Colbert Report" - he got Stephen Colbert's surname right, but the T in "Report" is also silent
I sure hope you won't be the one judging me at heaven's gate.
breaking up fights on the view. Pretty prescient.
I miss 9 out of the Top Ten these days.
haha, the intro song was "gimme some money" from Spinal Tap
#5 should’ve been #1
Did they ever go back to work back then or they just used algos to patch up?
Can I have that suit?
So, yeah...this strike is going nowhere. Because neither side can break.
If the writers fold, they'll be replaced with artificial intelligence.
If the studios fold, they'll lose everything because streaming doesn't pay like the DVD model did.
Any excuse to grow a beard!
Soooooo who wrote the list then... ? 🤨
"kids" ?? ouch.
when people are half your age, they are kids.
Full benefits for Imaginary writers is not far from one of their actual demands
Interesting, I no longer watch late night television but my understanding is that, this year, those shows have all gone dark because their writers are on strike. Was Letterman hiring scabs back in the day?
Dave and his production company struck a separate deal with the writers union allowing the show to come back on the air.
@@yohei72 Ah, I see. Thank you.
Hang on. If the writers were on strike in 2008, who wrote the Top 10 and why are these striking writers reading material written by writers who are supposed to be on strike? And why did Letterman not shut down his show in support of his supposed striking writers?
Dave and his production company struck a separate deal with the writers union allowing the show to come back on the air.