Re: Two Articles about What Brits Know (or Don't)...

In the Year of the Golden Pig, the Great and Powerful William 
December Starr declared:
> In article <e0piq3ducgk1knnvi5t0luqalv65aq2uch@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> Tim Merrigan <tppm@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> said:
>> Can't do that, the writers are on strike.
> 
> There seems to be an exemption in the Guild rules for performers who
> write their own material, or are part of the team that writes it --
> they can continue to write and perform; they just have to do the
> writing on their own.  (See, e.g., Conan O'Brien.)
> 
> I think.
> 

Technically they can, as can TV show producers, but most have shown 
solidarity with the WGA. Most of the writers I've heard from 
consider Leno, O'Brien, Stewart, and Colbert scabs (Letterman 
reached a separate peace with the guild, so he's okay).

-- 
Sean O'Hara <http://diogenes-sinope.blogspot.com>
I have committed fornication, true (or not true), but God is the one 
unable to solve the problem of evil.
    -Umberto Eco
     /Foucault's Pendulum/