By Vic Vassel, BSN Evening News
Burbank, CA – In response to the impending sanctions against him by the Writers Guild of America for writing his own monologues during the strike, “Tonight Show” host Jay Leno has purchased the WGA for an undisclosed sum.
“The negotiations with the AMPTP came to a stand-still,” says a WGA spokesman, “and then this Leno deal came around and we felt it was a no-brainer. A slam-dunk for all our members. Now we only answer to one person, our employer, Mr. Leno.”
How the new ownership of the Guild will affect the ongoing negotiations with the Association of Motion Picture and Television Producers is unclear, but Leno insists the purchase will not effect how he runs “The Tonight Show,” stating that he has instructed the 15,000 members of the WGA to report to his kitchen by 8:00 am on Monday for a writers’ meeting.
A statement on the AMPTP’s official website called the deal “a welcome end to our pointless and puzzling bad-faith negotiating tactics with the writers. Now we can refocus our pointless and puzzling bad-faith tactics in upcoming negotiations with the directors.”
The Directors Guild of America, however, not wanting to be one-upped by its less esteemed sister union, has recently put itself up for auction on eBay.
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