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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Hollywood studios said Friday that striking writers have now lost more in salary and benefits than they had hoped to gain by walking off the job.
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The storied rivalry between Jay  Leno and David Letterman takes a new twist on Wednesday when  the two stars of U.S. late-night television return to the air  two months into a bitter strike by TV and film writers.
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In the wake of the three-month Hollywood writers strike, television viewers are hungry for something Â anything Â new on TV, right? Not quite.
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America's late-night TV comics returned to the air on Wednesday with dueling politicians, newly grown facial hair and expressions of sympathy for striking screenwriters whose labor dispute threw the shows into reruns for two months.
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Politicians beware: Parody is returning. The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and The Colbert Report will resume production on Jan. 7 without their striking writers, the Comedy Central network announced Thursday
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The programing chiefs at all six broadcast networks held forth on the sorry state of televised comedy Thursday, blaming a shortage of originality and an abundance of executive meddling.
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"Late Show with David Letterman" and "Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson" will be back with their writers airing joke-filled new hours starting Wednesday, the shows' production company, Worldwide Pants, announced Friday.
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Republican Mike Huckabee, a presidential candidate sounding a populist theme in Iowa, likely will be forced to cross a writers' picket line if he appears Wednesday on the "Tonight Show" with Jay Leno.
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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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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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A spokeswoman said Friday that the Writers Guild of America would definitely take some action against Jay Leno, who is a member.
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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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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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Talk show host Jay Leno is accused of breaking a strike agreement by writing his own jokes.
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Striking film and television writers on Thursday canceled their own awards dinner, becoming the latest casualty in the ongoing labor dispute with Hollywood producers.