Late-night comedy has been in reruns, or off the air entirely, since day one of the Writers Guild’s strike. But many of their current and former writers have banded together to put on a weekly YouT…
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver,
opened tonight’s episode with a reference to the apocalyptic air quality conditions blanketing the East Coast. “Hi! I’m Greg Iwinski, coming to you from New York City, sponsored by– in all seriousness – that the issues at stake in the strike are “existential” for late-night comedy writers.
The shows are allowed under the guild’s strike rules, because everyone involved is an unpaid volunteer and they’re not working for a struck company. Here’s tonight’s show, which can be found by searching YouTube for Contract TK, which is journalism lingo for Contract To Come.
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