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WGA Scolds Carson Daly For Returning To Work & Seeking Scab Jokes

I should start this post by noting that everyone I know, young and old, doesn't get lunkhead NBC late night host Carson Daly's appeal. Indeed, I've seen chimps with better TV charisma and good looks. And Daly's total lack of interviewing skills on Last Call is worse than even those Fox News Channel blond bimbos on a good day. And yet NBC at the time was so delighted about hiring him just because he dated starlets and pop stars and smarmed MTV. So the net is even more enthusiastic than ever now that Daly today announced that he is the first of the late night hosts returning to the air despite the ongoing writers walkout. (NBC is so desperate to get Leno back behind The Tonight Show desk that it's humiliating him with "vintage" episodes which should be destroyed, not aired.)

Tonight, the Writers Guild Of America issued this statement: “We’re disappointed at Carson Daly’s decision to return to work. Mr. Daly is not a writer and not a member of the WGA, unlike other late-night hosts Jay Leno, David Letterman, Conan O’Brien, Craig Ferguson, and Jimmy Kimmel, who have all resisted network pressure and honored our writers’ picket lines. We hope he’ll change his mind and follow the lead of the other late-night hosts.”

But back to Daly. It's bad enough he's crossing the picket line, but he's also accused of setting up a "joke hotline" as a strike breaking effort -- prompting the WGA to scold "We’re especially appalled at Mr. Daly’s call for non-Guild writers to provide him with jokes." The Smoking Gun published an email purportedly from Daly detailing how he asked a small group of contacts to call in "suggested jokes" to a telephone hotline, noting that he would "play some, most, or all of your jokes on the air." The bit, Daly stressed, was not meant to "make fun" of his striking writers. He added that his goal was to just "play a fun collage of random people trying to 'help me out.'" The bit's set-up, Daly wrote in his Sunday night e-mail was that "the devastating writers strike" led to "A TON of my friends and family...calling me, leaving messages, offering their help with jokes because they know that I don't have any writers working and hosting a late night show without them will be nearly impossible for me." It's all online, barf bag not included.

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I love Nikki Finke, period. She seems like she'd fit in perfectly at ONTD cutting little dickwads like Carson Douchebag Daly down to size.