Sarah Kobos, a senior photo research coordinator for “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon,” slammed the late-night host Tuesday, claiming he skipped out on a day by day production meeting over pay amid the Hollywood writers’ strike.
Nevertheless, a “Tonight Show” insider told The Post that neither Fallon, 48, nor “Late Night” host Seth Meyers, 49 — whom Kobos later mentioned — are typically not in those particular meetings.
The Writers Guild of America (WGA) announced within the wee hours Tuesday that its 11,500 screenwriter members in California, Recent York and other cities will refuse to work after the union and studios didn’t agree on a recent three-year contract after their current one expired just after midnight.
Within the wake of the strike, Fallon’s “The Tonight Show,” “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert,” “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” and “Late Night With Seth Meyers” have all been shut down.
On Tuesday, Kobos, a non-union member who will not be striking, quote tweeted a video of Fallon on the Met Gala on Monday night, wherein he told Variety: “I wouldn’t have a show if it wasn’t for my writers, I support all of them the way in which.
“They got to have a good contract they usually got lots of stuff to iron out and hopefully, they get it done,” he added.
“… whatever I can do to support the Guild,” Fallon claimed. “I’m actually within the Writers Guild as well.”
Nevertheless, Kobos took issue together with his supposed show of solidarity.
“He wasn’t even on the meeting this morning to inform us we won’t receives a commission after this week,” Kobos reacted to Fallon’s interview. “@jimmyfallon please support your staff. Rejoiced bowling with ya last week, but a fun party won’t pay my rent.”
“Staff AND crew***** I should say!” she added in one other tweet.
In a press release to The Post, Kobos explained her have to open up concerning the issue.
“I posted the tweets because my coworkers and I are concerned about our livelihoods and health, and are lacking answers from management,” she wrote in a direct message. “I support my coworkers who’re striking and think it [is] foul how the remainder of the staff and crew are being treated. We love our jobs and hope for change if there’s enough attention on the problem.”
The Post has contacted the Author’s Guild for comment and likewise reached out to representatives for Fallon, Meyers and Jimmy Kimmel about how they plan to support their staff writers throughout the strike.
Kobos continued in her Twitter rant that “the remainder of the staff and crew” were told within the alleged Fallon-missed meeting that NBC had decided to stop paying them and end their medical insurance coverage if the strike continues into June.
“They won’t even tell us if we are going to technically be furloughed. Just lively employees who aren’t paid,” she claimed.
Kobos also alleged that meeting attendees were instructed that they “shouldn’t vent to coworkers.”
“I’m told Seth Meyers was of their zoom production meeting and that he’s going to try to maintain his staff and crew after NBC stops paying,” she further stated concerning the “Late Night” host.
Meanwhile, one other insider told The Post that Meyers was pulled into the production meeting only after it was announced to the staff that the show was shut down.
The previously announced May 6 episode of NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” hosted by Pete Davidson with musical guest Lil Uzi Vert has also been subsequently canceled.
That is the primary WGA strike in 15 years.
Back in 2007, then-late-night hosts Conan O’Brien, David Letterman and Jay Leno all dug into their very own wallets to pay for his or her staffers idled by the writers’ strike.
Through the production pause resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, late-night hosts James Corden and Trevor Noah did the identical thing and paid their employees out of their very own pockets — as did Fallon and Meyers, a source near their shows told The Post.
Kimmel paid his stagehands together with his own money throughout the initial COVID-19 shutdowns before ABC began paying all staff their full rates upon their return.
