The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon it will reportedly stop paying its non-writing staff on Friday.
A source close to NBC told HuffPost: show tonight crew members picked up the news during a phone call on Tuesday morning. Meanwhile, multiple sources have confirmed to Huffpost that Seth Meyers, Stephen Colbert, and Jimmy Kimmel have paid compensation to their employees.
To fall Senior photography researcher Sara Kobos also tweeted on Tuesday, saying Friday will be “the final payday” for staff who don’t write.
“By the way, I’ve heard that Late Night with Seth Meyers and The Late Show With Stephen Colbert will continue to be paid,” he wrote.
representatives for Tonight Show, Late Night with Seth Meyers, Late Show with Stephen Colbert, And Jimmy Kimmel Live He did not immediately respond to HuffPost’s request for comment.
The Writers Guild of America last struck for 100 days, from 2007 to 2008, and eventually prevailed. (During that strike, several late-night servers, including David Letterman, Jay Leno, and Conan O’Brien, reportedly used their own money to pay their non-writing workers.) This year’s strike began on May 2 and Tuesday. entered its third week. . Since then, it’s been airing again late at night.
Earlier this month, Kobos called his boss after he had not attended a previous meeting where his non-writing staff were told they would not be paid after the first week of the strike. “They don’t even say if we’re technically allowed,” Kobos wrote at the time. “Only active employees who are not paid.”
Kobos’ tweets apparently got NBC (and Fallon) into action; TheWrap later reported that NBC had chosen to pay the staff over the next week, and Fallon decided to pay the workers the following week. But now it seems that Tonight staff are in trouble once again.