Craig Ferguson Urges Studios To “Make A Deal” To Fix “Horribly Unfair” System
deadline.comCraig Ferguson knows a thing or two about strikes. The comedian hosted CBS’ The Late Late Show during the 2007/2008 writers strike.
As a member of the WGA, SAG-AFTRA and the DGA, the Scot has urged the studios to “make a fucking deal”. “I support the strike wholeheartedly,” he told Deadline. “You have one job as a producer and that’s to make a fucking deal.
That’s really the whole ethos of being a producer and they’re not making a deal, and I can’t understand that. Any good producer finds a way to make a deal that everyone walks away feeling kind of good about so I can’t imagine why an association of producers can’t get together with a bunch of people who want to work and say, ‘All right, we have to find a deal’.” Ferguson has now entered the podcast business, striking a deal with iHeart to host Joy, A Podcast.
It launched in July and the first two episodes featuring Grabiel Iglesias and Kathie Lee Gifford have now aired. Ferguson told Deadline that it’s about how people cope, how they see their way out of the darkness and how they shake off their demons.
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