NBC: ‘Investigate’ Leno and we’ll read you Federal labor laws
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The statements continued to fly late Friday when NBC responded to the writers’ guild assertion that it plans to look into ‘Tonight Show’ host Jay Leno’s self-written monologues.
NBC shares America’s enthusiasm for Jay Leno’s return. It is unfortunate that the WGA is contemplating plans to ‘investigate’ Jay’s authorship of his Tonight Show monologue. The WGA agreement clearly permits Jay to create and perform his own monologue. The enforcement of strike rules against Jay in these circumstances would violate the Federal labor laws.
The network earlier argued that the WGA is trying to ‘implement rules that conflict with the terms of the collective bargaining agreement between the studios and the WGA.’