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

On 6 Feb 2008 22:45:15 -0500, wdstarr@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (William December
Starr) wrote:

>In article <e0piq3ducgk1knnvi5t0luqalv65aq2uch@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
>Tim Merrigan <tppm@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> said:
>
>> Kip Williams <kiptw@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>
>>> The late night comedians have a franchise on mocking US citizens
>>> and their lack of knowledge.  Without the vox pops of the
>>> ignorant set, their shows would be a lot shorter (or, heaven
>>> forfend, they'd have to write some real material).
>>
>> 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.

I think the technical exemption there is that if they're members of
the guild they have to actually ad lib, if they're not members of the
guild they can write stuff ahead of time.
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