Maybe the show isn’t doing well and this is a way to bow out gracefully.
Comment on Drew Barrymore announces talk show will not return until strike ends
Puzzle_Sluts_4Ever@lemmy.world 9 months agoConan (and I think all of the talk show hosts?) were contractually required to put on their shows and had approval from the WGA. Conan chose to actively put on a bad show to highlight the strike and, if memory serves, Letterman outright had union leaders do “bits” to further raise awareness.
In all honesty: Barrymore seems like an idiot and likely thought she had her “Conan moment” before it was explained that “no, this is not happening and we specifically negotiated contracts to not make hosts required to host during a strike because of the last time this happened”
And, in her defense, not all the hosts were supportive of the strike when they came back in '08.
cantstopthesignal@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
They were bad in that they were unscripted. If they hadn’t done them the crews wouldn’t have been paid either.
That said, on Conan there was one of those episodes where his staff are playing guitar hero and Conan walks in there with a real guitar and plays the same song on a real guitar at the same time. I have never seen one activity so thoroughly undermine another.
Puzzle_Sluts_4Ever@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Conan is one of the all time great comedic writers. Even his “unscripted” is st ill “written” by one of the GOATs.
Everyone rightfully gives Leno shit for basically putting on a “normal” show. But Conan knew what he was doing and struck a balance between “tedious”, “intentionally bad”, and “still entertaining enough to get renewed when this all blows over”