She and Bill Maher sure sounds like scabs to me.
I think they are trying to take advantage of a loophole as they’re not technically acting here.
If I was Bill Maher, I would have done a makeshift spinoff podcast instead, as he already knows how to make a podcast and if he hires the same team, none of his crew is out of a job.
Bill looked at his options and did what he always does, which is choose the path of a slimy ratfuck
I’m going to start by saying: I stand with the unions and don’t think she should be working.
I have one question though, this other article that OP posited indicates she isn’t violating any of the strike rules for the WGA or SAG, so how is this different than when Jon Stewart, Colbert, and Conan kept their shows going during the last writers strike? No one called them scabs at that time. I don’t really care about her one way or the other, it seems like a double standard though.
Just commenting because this is a really good point and I’d love to know whether there’s an answer besides “the other folks mentioned are loved more by the internet”, since I really don’t know about the specifics here.
I do understand the rationale behind “there are non-writers who work on the show and they still need their jobs”, though. While it would be nice if this strike turned into a general strike in the entertainment industry, I don’t even know how many of those other folks are unionized.
See this video for some context on how talk shows handled it last time. (note timestamp which Piped bot doesn’t account for)
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You actually made a salient point I hadn’t thought of. I’m slowly lowering my pitchfork
Edit: apparently wga contracts made it specifically not okay to do this after the last time. Back to yelling at the scabs!
Let me see her ring spin.
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I don’t know if I can trust you any more.
The answer I saw regarding Jon Stewart was in response to the same question comparing Jon and Bill Maher with his recent announcement. That was that Jon Stewart was not a member of the WGA during the last strike and continued without his writers to keep the non-union workers getting a paycheck.
If true, it doesn’t necessarily make it ok, but it also doesn’t hurt that Jon Stewart seems likable and didn’t staunchly defend his decision, in fact indicating it was very much a struggle for him to make it.
Conan is a WGA member that ran his show during the last writer’s strike. At the end of the day I think your second point is the most important, Jon Stewart and Conan are likable, Drew Barrymore and Bill Maher aren’t. Either way it’s a double standard that I think is valid to bring up.
The “loophole” that I am hearing is that Drew isn’t acting on this show, so this isn’t under her umbrella of acting.
Historically, we have seen Colbert’s hosting of previous show The Colbert Report deemed to be “acting”, but I don’t know if modern talk shows are considered to be run by hosts, or actors playing a character.
Shame on Drew and anyone who works before end of strike.
I’m not watching anything that wasn’t in the can before the strike.
Drew, what u doing?
Being a rich scab, unfortunately.
Telling us who she is
This is important news. I was not aware that Drew Barrymore had a talk show
It only airs at the laundromat down the street from me
Neither, and I guess I’m never going to be aware of it now.
I heard about it when it first came out but nobody talked about it afterwards, I’m not sure that anybody is watching it.
The amount of people now saying that they didn’t know Drew had a show has surprised me, to be honest.
Scabs can DIAF.
Saying her actions will extend the strike attributes to her more power than she actually has.
I don’t see this having much of an impact at all.
IDK it cause a domino effect. Now Bill Maher is bringing his show back too.
