Sarah Kobos, a senior photograph analysis coordinator for “The Tonight Present Starring Jimmy Fallon,” slammed the late-night host Tuesday, claiming he skipped out on a gathering over pay amid the Hollywood writers’ strike.
Nevertheless, a “Tonight Present” insider advised The Publish that neither Fallon, 48, nor “Late Evening” host Seth Meyers, 49 — whom Kobos later talked about — are sometimes not in these manufacturing conferences.
The Writers Guild of America (WGA) introduced within the wee hours Tuesday that its 11,500 screenwriter members in California, New York and different cities will refuse to work after the union and studios did not agree on a brand new three-year contract after their present one expired simply after midnight.
Within the wake of the strike, Fallon’s “The Tonight Present,” “The Late Present With Stephen Colbert,” “Jimmy Kimmel Stay!” and “Late Evening With Seth Meyers” have all been shut down.
On Tuesday, Kobos, a non-union member who just isn’t placing, quote tweeted a video of Fallon at the Met Gala on Monday night time, during which he advised Selection: “I wouldn’t have a present if it wasn’t for my writers, I help all of them the best way.
“They obtained to have a good contract and so they obtained a variety of stuff to iron out and hopefully, they get it completed,” he added.
“… no matter I can do to help the Guild,” Fallon claimed. “I’m truly within the Writers Guild as effectively.”
Nevertheless, Kobos took challenge along with his supposed present of solidarity.
“He wasn’t even on the assembly this morning to inform us we received’t receives a commission after this week,” Kobos reacted to Fallon’s interview. “@jimmyfallon please help your employees. Had enjoyable bowling with ya final week, however a enjoyable celebration received’t pay my hire.”
“Employees AND crew***** I ought to say!” she added in another tweet.
The Publish contacted Kobos and the Author’s Guild for remark and in addition reached out to representatives for Fallon, Meyers and Jimmy Kimmel about how they plan to help their employees writers in the course of the strike.
Kobos continued on Twitter that “the remainder of the employees and crew” have been advised within the alleged Fallon-missed assembly that NBC had determined to cease paying them and finish their medical insurance protection if the strike continues into June.
“They received’t even inform us if we’ll technically be furloughed. Simply lively workers who aren’t paid,” she claimed.
Kobos also alleged that assembly attendees have been instructed that they “shouldn’t vent to coworkers.”
“I’m advised Seth Meyers was of their zoom manufacturing assembly and that he’s going to attempt to deal with his employees and crew after NBC stops paying,” she additional acknowledged concerning the “Late Evening” host.
Meanwhile, another insider told The Post that Meyers was pulled into the production meeting only after it was announced to the staff that the show was shut down.
The previously announced May 6 episode of NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” hosted by Pete Davidson with musical visitor Lil Uzi Vert has additionally been subsequently canceled.
That is the primary WGA strike in 15 years.
Again in 2007, then-late-night hosts Conan O’Brien, David Letterman and Jay Leno all dug into their personal wallets to pay for his or her staffers idled by the writers’ strike.
In the course of the stop of manufacturing as a result of COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, late-night hosts James Corden and Trevor Noah did the identical factor and paid their workers out of their very own pockets.
Kimmel paid his stagehands along with his personal cash in the course of the preliminary COVID-19 shutdowns earlier than ABC started paying all employees their full charges upon their return.
