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Santa Jimmy Picks Up Tab
Jimmy Kimmel is out to prove he's no Scrooge.
On Tuesday, ABC confirmed it was suspending employees of Jimmy Kimmel Live, which has been idled by the ongoing writers' strike. On Wednesday, sources confirmed the late-night wiseacre would be bankrolling the staffers' salaries while they remained sidelined.
Kimmel, 40, follows the lead of his fellow night owls Jay Leno, David Letterman, Conan O'Brien and Jon Stewart, who are all paying their writing and nonwriting staff members out of pocket.
While the writers fight for a cut of digital media profits, the below-the-line employees—receptionists, production assistants and other crew members—were in jeopardy of losing their jobs just weeks before Christmas.
Kimmel committed to covering the tab even though he doesn't earn the same kind of bank as Leno and Letterman.
Leno promised to cover nearly 80 Tonight Show staffers' salaries after NBC decided to pink-slip them last week, as well as employees Late Night with Conan O'Brien.
According to the trades, Leno—who reportedly earns more than $27 million a year—agreed to dip into his coffers and cover at least a week's payroll after complaints from several upset staff members, who felt their boss was ignoring their plight.
O'Brien also stepped up in the wake of the NBC layoffs, joining Stewart and Letterman, both of whom had previously ponied up for their workers.
For instance, Letterman's World Wide Pants, which produces both The Late Show and The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, plans to keep the cash flowing to nonscribbling staffers of both programs through at least the end of the year, though they were laid off by CBS.
One late-nighter is bucking the trend. Carson Daly, the only one of the bunch who's not a WGA member, resumed taping NBC's Last Call with Carson Daly last week, claiming doing so would prevent most of his staff from being out of a job.
"If I had not been back on the air tonight, 75 members of my loyal staff and crew were going to get laid off," the 34-year-old emcee said during Monday's show.
While Daly only had four guild members on his writing team, he still took heat from the WGA. The union not only lashed out at Daly's decision to cross the picket lines but also blasted him for soliciting jokes from nonunion scribes.
Daly refrained from using scripted jokes in his return episode. Instead, he filled the first half-hour of his show with a bit showing vacation photos of what staffers were doing with their forced hiatus.
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