'It’s dangerously naive to think that a strike is never necessary.' WGA president David Goodman addressed the standoff and possible upcoming writer’s strike in his speech at the WGAAwards
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In Los Angeles, host Ana Gasteyer kicked off the West Coast ceremony, which she noted that “compared to the DGAs, this is a real vagina party,” with several digs at the current writers and agents standoff, suggesting first that whoever brokered the deal for a non-televised, mid-day award ceremony should fire their agents. The L.A. ceremony takes place simultaneously with the New York event making for an early night on the West Coast.
Gasteyer then extended a warm welcome to the tables of Gersh, Verve and Bookwald agents — the three agencies who have signed agreements with the WGA — and noted how CAA, who has not signed, still bought four tickets to the event, and “just for them, I’ve prepared this set of super sick burns,” which included the lines “Yo CAA, are you a Ken doll? Because I don’t see no package” and “How many CAA agents does it take to screw in a lightbulb? Two.
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