Jimmy Fallon And Seth Meyers Work Out Plan With NBC To Pay Late-Night TV Staffers Despite Going Dark

There will be no late night laughs in Moscow, comrade. Or anywhere else in Russia, for that matter.

Meanwhile I hear folks at Late Night with Seth Meyers and The Late Show With Stephen Colbert will continue to be paid.Solidarity with WGA! https://t.co/RQwREipx2HAn unnamed source reportedly confirmed the show’s decision to the Huffington Post Tuesday. NBC didn’t immediately respond to TheWrap’s request for comment. The decision to halt payment for the show’s staff is essentially how NBC and Fallon signaled things might go back at the beginning of the strike. Following a public pressure campaign led in part by Kobos, NBC agreed to pay the staff for two weeks, and Fallon said he himself would pay for a third week. “I have a very good update! We ended up having our production meeting this [morning] too and @jimmyfallon was there,” Kobos tweeted on May 3.

WGA strike, but there’s still one host who’s proudly still on the air as his TV peers continue to picket: Greg Gutfeld.“I have the No. 1 late night show,” Gutfeld said Monday during Fox’s 2023 upfront presentation. “I also have the only late night show — sorry — right now, so you don’t have a choice in this matter.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at Large From the moment an animated “Ted” opened the NBCUniversal upfront, voiced by Seth MacFarlane prior to the writers strike, it was clear this was going to be an abbreviated event. For starters, until a week ago, this was still going to be Linda Yaccarino’s Radio City Music Hall show. But with Yaccarino off running Twitter (“Ted” making a crack about the crazies now at Twitter earned the biggest inadvertent laugh of the morning), it was up to Mark Marshall, NBCU interim chairman, global advertising & partnerships, to make the pitch to advertisers. “In all of our conversations leading up today, regardless of client or category, there has been one constant…this is going to be a very important year for your businesses,” Marshall said, counting 32 pharma launches, 60 auto releases (including 46 electric vehicles) and over 100 movie releases (“which puts us back to pre-pandemic levels”) this year. “We know this is a competitive year. And here at NBCUniversal, we are built for these moments.”

A trio of SNL greats joined the WGA picket line Tuesday at Silvercup Studios in Queens.

Jennifer Coolidge won’t be making her “Saturday Night Live” hosting debut this month, after all.

Jimmy Fallon and Seth Meyers are set to personally pay their staff salaries for the third week of the ongoing Writers Guild of America (WGA) strike.According to The Hollywood Reporter, both talk show hosts will fork out money from their own pockets to pay their staff during the third week of the writers strike, with NBC set to pay staff salaries for the first two weeks.Sarah Kobos, a staffer on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, announced in a tweet on Tuesday (May 2) that NBC had originally decided to stop paying staff after the first week of the strike, adding that Fallon wasn’t present at a meeting between staff and the NBC just a day after he voiced his support for his staff at the Met Gala.He wasn’t even at the meeting this morning to tell us we won’t get paid after this week. @jimmyfallon please support your staff.

Jimmy Fallon and Seth Meyers are making sure that their writing staff are supported.

called out NBC for only paying the “Tonight Show” staff through the end of the week as the WGA strike unfolds, the show’s crew will now be paid by NBC through the end of next week. Fallon is expected to pay his staff a third week out of his own pocket. “Late Night with Seth Meyers” will also follow suit with Meyers paying his staff for a third week.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV Editor NBC, Jimmy Fallon and Seth Meyers intend to pay staffers of the network’s “Tonight” and “Late Night” shows three weeks’ of wages while the programs are sidelined due to the writers strike, according to two people familiar with the matter. NBC plans to pay two weeks of salary to staffers while each late-night host will pay a third week out of their own pockets, according to these people. Healthcare for the shows’ employees will be paid through September. Staffers were informed Wednesday morning during production calls, these people say, with Fallon and Meyers taking part personally to discuss the matter with his staff. The hosts typically do not participate in those early-day meetings.

Staffers on late-night shows The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and Late Night with Seth Meyers can breathe slightly easier after the hosts and the networks worked out plans to pay crew after the late-night shows went dark.

Hollywood writers’ strike. However, a “Tonight Show” insider told The Post that neither Fallon, 48, nor “Late Night” host Seth Meyers, 49 — whom Kobos later mentioned — are typically not in those production meetings.The Writers Guild of America (WGA) announced in the wee hours Tuesday that its 11,500 screenwriter members in California, New York and other cities will refuse to work after the union and studios failed to agree on a new three-year contract after their current one expired just after midnight.In the wake of the strike, Fallon’s “The Tonight Show,” “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert,” “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” and “Late Night With Seth Meyers” have all been shut down.On Tuesday, Kobos, a non-union member who is not striking, quote tweeted a video of Fallon at the Met Gala on Monday night, in which he told Variety: “I wouldn’t have a show if it wasn’t for my writers, I support them all the way.“They got to have a fair contract and they got a lot of stuff to iron out and hopefully, they get it done,” he added.

Very unfortunate news has just been revealed: Pete Davidson‘s episode of Saturday Night Live is officially canceled.

writer’s strike, the only network-based late-night show to stay on the air – and its viewers shouldn’t notice any difference.That’s because “Gutfeld!” writers are non-guild, according to the network, and are not participating in Hollywood’s first labor stoppage in 15 years. The late-night broadcast writers for Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Fallon, Stephen Colbert and Seth Meyers are all members of the Writer’s Guild of America, and all went dark on Tuesday.Other shows, like “The View,” are forging ahead without their guild writers.

Late-night shows will be shut down after the Writers Guild of America (WGA) announced they will strike.

EXCLUSIVE: Sky is speaking with distributors about how to overcome the loss of four of the biggest U.S. late-night talk shows due to the writers strike.

Nightly talk shows including The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel Live! and The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, are set to go dark starting on Tuesday after writers agreed to strike.

EXCLUSIVE: Stand-up comedian and actress Dulcé Sloan has signed with APA.

Seth Meyers got serious during his “Corrections” Late Night segment and talked about the possible writers strike. The late-night talk show host started off by saying that if he was good at one thing it was writing, “I love writing so much.”

BreAnna Bell “The Late Late Show with James Corden” ends on a high note, scoring 1.43 million viewers with its series finale, which aired on Thursday night. The show moved up 77% from its season-to-date Live+Same Day average. Additionally, the 10pm primetime special, “THE Last Last Late Late Show with James Corden Carpool Karaoke” brought in 3.65 total viewers — that’s up 32% from the last “Late Late Show Carpool Karaoke” primetime special, which aired in May 2019. In his last hoorah, Corden took the time to say his goodbyes to several stars who’ve graced his show in the past including Tom Cruise and Adele. He opened the final show with a rendition of “Last Show” (to the tune of “Last Dance”), and a quick opening monologue, before jumping into the final pre-taped scene with Cruise showing their performance of “The Lion King” at the Pantages Theatre in Hollywood. He also had visits from guests Harry Styles and Will Ferrell, who both played “Spill Your Guts or Fill Your Guts” and destroyed “The Late Late Show” desk.