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SAG-AFTRA posted this notice over the weekend: Attention all members: SAG-AFTRA has rescinded its...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