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SAG-AFTRA posted this notice over the weekend: Attention all members: SAG-AFTRA has rescinded its...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