Tag: labor
SAG-AFTRA approves new animation contract through 2020
by Sean L. McCarthy | Nov 23, 2018 | Movies, News, TV | 0 |
As animation and voiceover work becomes ever more commonplace among mainstream TV and movie fare,...
Read MoreFun fact? UCB Theatres also do not offer health insurance to employees
by Sean L. McCarthy | Sep 18, 2018 | News | 0 |
While comedy critics and comedians continue to debate the merits of paying the performers at the...
Read MoreToward A More Perfect Comedian Union
by Sean L. McCarthy | Nov 17, 2017 | News | 0 |
If you had told me 10 years ago, when I launched The Comic’s Comic from a hotel room in Las...
Read MoreSAG-AFTRA rescinds “Do Not Work” order, allows comedians to work on “Comedians of LA” and “Living with Funny”
by Sean L. McCarthy | Aug 17, 2015 | TV | 0 |
SAG-AFTRA posted this notice over the weekend: Attention all members: SAG-AFTRA has rescinded its...
Read MoreNew York Comedy Club hosting Equal Pay Day comedy fundraiser
by Sean L. McCarthy | Apr 14, 2015 | Video | 0 |
No matter whether you choose to believe Sarah Silverman or Al Martin over who paid whom what and...
Read MoreReader’s Digest paying for funny Tweets after comedian catches magazine using his jokes without permission
by Sean L. McCarthy | Nov 11, 2014 | Uncategorized | 1 |
Did you know that Reader’s Digest will pay to publish your funny Twitter jokes? Did you know...
Read MoreWork stoppage threatens Last Comic Standing’s post-production editing (editors receive union contract!)
by Sean L. McCarthy | Apr 22, 2014 | TV, Uncategorized | 0 |
Producers of NBC’s Last Comic Standing hope to resolve a work stoppage that left them...
Read MoreThe economics of the UCB, indie rooms and stand-up comedy: Adding it all up
by Sean L. McCarthy | Jan 29, 2013 | Uncategorized | 2 |
When the Upright Citizens Brigade’s East Village theater celebrated its grand opening in...
Read MoreWatch Joe Wong’s third appearance on Letterman
by Sean L. McCarthy | Sep 2, 2011 | Late-night TV credit | 0 |
In his third appearance on Late Show with David Letterman, check out how Joe Wong keeps a slow and...
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