Striking writers cry foul over "Tonight Show" jokes
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The union for striking Hollywood writers cried foul on Thursday over late-night TV comic Jay Leno writing his own jokes for his return to the air from an eight-week hiatus forced by the walkout.
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A day after NBC late-night TV hosts Jay Leno and Conan O'Brien said they would return to the airwaves despite the Hollywood writers strike, ABC rival Jimmy Kimmel said on Tuesday he would follow them across picket lines.
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The Writers Guild of America moved to try to prevent Jay Leno from performing any more monologues.
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Television network NBC apologized  for itself and actress Jane Fonda on Thursday after she used an  offensive word on the "Today Show."
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David Letterman doesn't even need writers to have fun with this one. The late-night comic's representatives met with striking writers on Friday in an attempt to reach a deal that will allow the "Late Show" to return to the air with its writing staff.
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FCC officials say they've received complaints about Motley Crue rocker Vince Neil's use of an expletive during the live New Year's Eve broadcast of "The Tonight Show With Jay Leno," but NBC may get away with it.
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By Mike Duffy, Detroit Free Press  Sep. 18--Things go terribly wrong during the opening of a fictional late-night sketch comedy known as "Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip." And that's when you know that one of TV's very best writers is doing something terribly right.
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The Writers Guild of America moved to try to prevent Jay Leno from performing any more monologues, saying that doing so would be a violation of strike rules.
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"Tonight Show" host Jay Leno got the last laugh on Wednesday in his legal battle with the creator of numerous joke books filled with stolen gags and punch lines.
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Late-night TV comedians Jay Leno  and Conan O'Brien said on Monday they will resume taping their  shows on January 2, and cross picket lines if necessary, after  nearly two months off the air in support of striking film and  television writers.
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LOS ANGELES  - Late-night TV history will repeat itself January 2 when, two months into the Hollywood writers strike, NBC's "The Tonight Show" will return to the air without its scribes.
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With talk shows returning to late night without their writers, is it time to dust off your favorite gags and submit them to the networks?
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As television and movie writers entered the third day of their strike against Hollywood producers, the walkout continued to complicate matters for the networks.
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Media consumers have been watching the writersâ strike from the sidelines, but they might take notice if the awards season is replaced by marches and pickets.
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Television viewers welcomed late-night hosts with open arms for their first night back at work in two months because of a writers strike. Jay Leno's "Tonight" show on NBC was seen by 7.2 million viewers, or 43 percent more than what he had been averaging this season before the strike took him off the air Nov. 5, according to national ratings supplied by Nielsen Media Research.
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Facing dwindling bank accounts, striking TV and film writers returned to the picket line Wednesday, saying they're eager to get back to work but determined to tough it out until their demands are met.
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Union officials representing striking Hollywood writers said Thursday they have filed an unfair labor practices complaint claiming studios violated federal law by breaking off negotiations.