Suggestion: While we’re pounding Fallon, let’s maybe reserve a few body blows for NBC and Tonight Show production company (and Lorne Michaels front) Broadway Video, both of which have much deeper pockets than the host. Would it kill them to keep hard-working staff on the payroll for a few more weeks? Come to think of it, Lorne ($30 million in annual salary), you’re paying Saturday Night Live staff while the show is on pause? But we get it, Fallon has a $16 million annual salary and a punchable face, making him a better, easier target than faceless companies.
Late night comedy only gets uglier from here. Will the other hosts be able to pay their staff indefinitely in a strike that experts say will last for months? Will non-union employees become less united in their support for the WGA as their savings accounts dwindle? There is only one winner in this situation: Alleged union breaker James Cordenof smoking a fat cigar where it belongs.
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