{"id":36741,"date":"2023-09-07T09:41:31","date_gmt":"2023-09-07T09:41:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/07\/bill-maher-youre-not-owed-a-living-as-a-writer\/"},"modified":"2023-09-07T09:41:31","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T09:41:31","slug":"bill-maher-youre-not-owed-a-living-as-a-writer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/07\/bill-maher-youre-not-owed-a-living-as-a-writer\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Maher \u2018You\u2019re Not\u2019 Owed a Living as a Writer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div> Maher criticized the WGA strike during a discussion with comedian Jim Gaffigan on the \u201cClub Random\u201d podcast. His HBO talk show \u201cReal Time\u201d ended its most recent season in April just before strike, shared his thoughts after Gaffigan noted the strike might kill late-night T.V. for good.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re asking for a lot of things that are, like, kooky,\u201d Maher said about the WGA. \u201cWhat I find objectionable about the philosophy of the strike [is] it seems to be, they have really morphed a long way from 2007\u2019s strike, where they kind of believe that you\u2019re owed a living as a writer, and you\u2019re not. This is show business. This is the make-or-miss league.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The WGA strike started in May and hit the 100-day mark last month. <\/p>\n<p>Sources: My Brother who has a bike, <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2023\/film\/news\/bill-maher-slams-wga-strike-kooky-demands-no-leverage-streamers-1235713795\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Variety <\/a> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com\/126785146.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maher criticized the WGA strike during a discussion with comedian Jim Gaffigan on the \u201cClub Random\u201d podcast. His HBO talk show \u201cReal Time\u201d ended its most recent season in April just before strike, shared his thoughts after Gaffigan noted the strike might kill late-night T.V. for good. \u201cThey\u2019re asking for a lot of things that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36742,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-36741","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hollywood"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}