Dispatches From The Picket Lines: Striking Actors Dump On Bill Maher & Decry AI During NYC Rallies
deadline.comThis is Day 127 of the WGA strike and Day 54 of the SAG-AFTRA strike. After the long Labor Day weekend, the Writers Guild of America East had no pickets scheduled for Tuesday in New York City, and turnout was light on a hot and muggy morning at a pair of SAG-AFTRA pickets outside NBCUniversal and Netflix offices in Manhattan. “We are small but mighty today,” voice actor, singer and SAG-AFTRA strike captain Sue Berch told about four dozen people in wrap-up remarks at the Netflix rally, where actors Susan Sarandon, F.
Murray Abraham, Michael Cyril Creighton and Mike Doyle also walked the picket line. WHY I’M STRIKING: “I’ve been out here for the last several months…striking for a fair contract and fair wage…” – Mike Doyle, SAG-AFTRA, WGA pic.twitter.com/xe2uGwM9JE Berch thanked everyone for coming out, then teed off on comments that talk show host Bill Maher made about the writers strike in the latest episode of his podcast, Club Random.
The host of HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher expressed sympathy for writers and agreed with guest Jim Gaffigan that writers are getting “screwed” on residual income from streaming, but he also said that some of their demands are “kooky” and that “they kind of believe that you’re owed a living as a writer.” “And you’re not,” Maher said. “This is show business.
This is a make-or-miss league.” Berch said watching video of Maher’s show left her “annoyed.” “He’s sittin’ on an overstuffed chair, smoking a cigar, completely tone deaf, and he’s saying: ‘You know I really care about my writers.
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