Weve get every frickin union in the city of New York in the house!
The dragging of studio executives was more lighthearted but still barbed in other remarks.
Discovery chief David Zaslav, who wasjeered on Sunday by Boston University graduateswho chanted Pay your writers!
Busy Philipps, Kal Penn, Ilana Glazer, Wanda Sykes, Cynthia Nixon and America Ferrera.Getty
at him during his commencement speech.
Sal Gentile, a writer forLate Night with Seth Meyers, took the HBO Max rebranding further.
Tremendous#WGAStrongenergy and solidarity.
The WGA picket line outside NBCUniversal headquarters in Manhattan was about 1,000 strong at its peak Tuesday.Sean Piccoli/Deadline
It was run over by a self-driving Tesla.
Im mad as hell and Im not going to take it anymore.
The truth is out there.
CEOs cannot write scripts.
Shareholders cannot write scripts, Studio executives cannot write scripts, he said.
It makes sense that youve forgotten the meaning of words.
Thats what happens when you devalue writers; you lose language.
We are writers We know what words mean.
We know the difference between truth and malevolent, cynical, self-serving horseshit.
Being out on strike his really hard, Kushner said.
Its enervating and infuriating in equal measure.
So workers go out on strike only when we have to.
Workers strike not because were greedy but because our bosses are greedy.
All we have to do is turn up and form a picket line.
