Comment on Mayim Bialik Declines to Host ‘Celebrity Jeopardy!’ Amid Strikes, Replaced by Ken Jennings

FfaerieOxide@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• Ashyr@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  He’s not an actor, is he? Hosting jeopardy isn’t an acting gig. So he’s under no obligations to a union and his role isn’t traditionally filled by union employees. This isn’t crossing the picket lines, as near as I can tell.

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  • AnonTwo@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    For 200, What is the reason Mayim Bialik declined hosting?

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    • gowan@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      She is in SAG and they are striking

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      • ButtholeCurator@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Oh I’m sorry you must answer in the form of a question

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  • roguetrick@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It's actually very close to a writing gig if the host is doing anything like what Alex's process was. Alex had strong creative input in the rewriting of answers And if he is doing that, and since the normal writers are on the picket line, he is a scab.

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    • CeruleanRuin@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Ok. Say he is. Who cares? He’s not the one stonewalling the unions or refusing to make reasonable concessions to keep millions of people employed and fairly treated.

      Whenever you feed into this trivial infighting, it only strengthens the studios

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      • roguetrick@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        No, shaming lack of solidarity does not strengthen the studios. I mean, I can't even conceptualize how anyone would reach such a conclusion. That's a train of thought that has jumped off the tracks and fell into the ocean.

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  • Neato@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Are Jeopardy writers union? If so the show can't be filmed without them. And generally if you're writing staff is on strike and the company hires scabs to fill that position, the rest of the crew (that can afford to) should strike in solidarity.

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    • GunnarRunnar@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I thought Ken Jennings was a cool dude. This doesn't feel like a cool dude move.

      Scabbing or not, it's semantics, but supporting the strike seems right to me. Though like you mentioned there's the rest of the crew to think about. Maybe they need this check.

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      • PsychedSy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        We went on strike a bit over a month ago. A lot of white collar workers and managers were 100% on our side and weren’t even mad at being blocked coming in to work. They still came in and did what they had to. No hard feelings at all.

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  • hypelightfly@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    WGA doesn't represent actors.

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    • gowan@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      SAG-AFTRA does and they are striking

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      • hypelightfly@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Yes, I know but this is about the WGA.

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    • Granite@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      SAG is also on strike.

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      • hypelightfly@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I know, however I actually read the post before commenting.

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• gowan@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Are you really this ignorant of what an actor is?

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  • FfaerieOxide@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Dude preforming on stage for an audience?

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    • gowan@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Nope that is not an actor as you could be an orator, poet, musician etc. A game show host is not acting.

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      • FfaerieOxide@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        If a poet preformed as a form of content during an actor or writer strike I would judge them the same way I am judging Ken.

        All the things you listed are "actors" in the same way some people refer to all carbonated beverages as "coke".

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