Jeff Zucker - hate writers?

[mommyjo2]

Check out the promo for My Name is Earl on Deadline Hollywood Daily:
http://www.deadlinehollywooddaily.com/has-nbc-unis-jeff-zucker-lost-his-mind/

Could JZ possibly be a bigger jerk? Why do you think he hates writers so much - and do you think the other network presidents feel the same way?

 

[NikeeGoddess]

sour grapes

 

[Rainy Night]

Just wait until SAG and Aftra go on strike.

 

[clockwork]

I thought it was hilarious! A scripted, self-deprecating, tongue-in-cheek joke.

 

[Shadow_Ferret]

Guess I can't see where he's dissing writers at all or why he's even remotely a jerk. Looked like a cute promo to me.

 

[mommyjo2]

Oh, I guess the part about downloading within 17 days, "getting paid twice for working once" regarding callbacks, and so on.

I wonder if Alyssa Milano got paid extra to have to put up with him ogling her. I'd have demanded an extra mil! LOL

 

[clockwork]

From the same website--

UPDATE: NBC just confirmed to me that Zucker taped the intro "at the request of Earl's creator, Greg Garcia". Garcia emails: "It was my idea. We had to do a recap of the show because we'd been off for so long, and I thought this would be a funny way to do it. The writers wrote the whole thing, I asked Jeff if he would do it, and he was cool enough to say yes. I loved the way it turned out, and I think it's fucking hilarious."

 

[mommyjo2]

Wow. It was so bad if I wrote it, I'd deny it.

Then again, maybe that's why NBC is fourth - this is what passes for as hilarious.

 

[Shadow_Ferret]

Oh, I guess the part about downloading within 17 days, "getting paid twice for working once" regarding callbacks, and so on.

Sounded like a joke to me. Nothing offensive.

 

[davids]

I thought it was hilarious! A scripted, self-deprecating, tongue-in-cheek joke.

yup agree!