Tag: unions
Just For Laughs revises plans for SiriusXM radio channel to showcase only Canadians
by Sean L. McCarthy | Feb 28, 2019 | Audio, News | 0 |
Your voices were heard loud and clear, comedians of Canada. Just For Laughs announced Wednesday...
Read MoreSAG-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 MoreEpisode #229: Ted Alexandro
by Sean L. McCarthy | Oct 15, 2018 | Last Things First -- Podcasts | 0 |
Ted Alexandro has made multiple appearances on David Letterman, Conan O’Brien, Jimmy Kimmel, Craig...
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SAG-AFTRA posted this notice over the weekend: Attention all members: SAG-AFTRA has rescinded its...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 MoreE! and Melissa Rivers announce “Fashion Police” will return in 2015; WGA writers on strike since 2013
by Sean L. McCarthy | Sep 22, 2014 | TV, Uncategorized | 0 |
Over the weekend, E! broadcast a special “Joan Day” to celebrate the life and work of...
Read MoreSteve Hofstetter promotes non-union work for his FOX stand-up comedy series, “Laughs”
by Sean L. McCarthy | Aug 7, 2014 | TV, Uncategorized | 14 |
Hot off the heels of SAG-AFTRA’s “Do Not Work” notice telling its union member...
Read MoreSAG-AFTRA posts “Do Not Work” notice to performers seeking “Laughs” TV credit
by Sean L. McCarthy | Aug 6, 2014 | TV, Uncategorized | 8 |
If you were hoping to use Laughs as a TV credit and as a path to SAG-AFTRA membership, well, let...
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 MoreNot Fooling Around. A PSA for Comedians: How to Read Contracts
by Nato Green | Apr 1, 2014 | Uncategorized | 4 |
I’m either a comedian who moonlights as a union organizer or a union organizer who moonlights as a...
Read MoreJay Leno’s final farewell from NBC’s The Tonight Show
by Sean L. McCarthy | Feb 7, 2014 | TV, Uncategorized | 0 |
“Thank you everybody! Watch Jimmy Fallon! Thanks folks, see ya later. I’m coming home,...
Read More“Fashion Police” writer expelled from WGA, claims he stopped paying dues 15 years ago, already resigned
by Sean L. McCarthy | Oct 15, 2013 | TV, Uncategorized | 0 |
For a labor dispute in which the unionization of TV writers is in dispute, the Writers Guild of...
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