Filed under: Jay Leno , Conan O’Brien Andy Richter says he’s still an employee of NBC — but that’s not stopping him from dissing the network and Jay Leno for pulling the plug on “The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien.”Richter was on “Live! With Regis and Kelly” today, where ripped into … Permalink
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Conan’s Sidekick — Still Ticked at Jay, NBC
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Ben Huh ‘s Cheezburger Network has been crowned the largest “meme aggregator” on the internet and gleans more than $4 million in annual revenue from other people’s animal pictures. So why can’t Huh throw more bones to his humans? Huh rubbed some prospective employees the wrong way with a recent blog post , issued just as Wired was lauding him for turning internet “junk into gold” as proprietor of I Can Has Cheezburger and a maze of other pet-pic sites like FAIL Blog. It seems Huh was offering to pay people the state minimum wage or just slightly more. “I don’t even wipe my ass for $10 an hour,” one applicant wrote. Huh found this greedy: The worst candidates focus on money the most… Higher advertised wages resulted in much higher level of noise from candidates who really didn’t care about the job. (FYI: Advertised pay and actual pay are two different things.) It’s become clear to me that bad candidates focus on money like that’s the only thing they’ll get out of the job. A good candidate, Huh says, will try to pull himself up by his bootstraps, just like Huh did, clawing his way out from a minimum-wage job and his $40,000 in debt, landing “back on my feet” in less than a year and eventually bringing 200 million pageviews a month into the Cheezburger Network . A Cheezburger spy tells us says Huh’s work ethos is deeply felt and permeates his company; our tipster said there are a significant number of minimum-wage employees within the company expected to work “extensive hours without overtime pay.” The tipster: [Huh] seems ignorant of the reason people devote their lives to startups is because they have OWNERSHIP in the company-not because they get to look at pictures of cats… Mr. Huh seems to want to create the APPEARANCE of a great workplace while paying his workers as little as possible. It’s a good point: If Huh’s sites made people happy to earn just $16,416 a year before taxes—the current minimum wage in Washington State, where Huh’s company is based—labor costs in this country would positively plummet. UPDATE: A self-described Cheezburger Network contractor who has spent a fair amount of time with the company wrote in to tell , ” I can confirm what was said in your story.” We’ve asked for more details, but that does remind us to ask: if you know more, do clue us in .
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Is Kate Gosselin polishing moves for Dancing with the Stars ? Reports are circulating that the newly single TV mom could be headed to the hit reality show. The former star of Jon & Kate Plus 8 may be included in the line-up of contestants for next season’s Dancing with the Stars according to a report by UPI. According to one report, Gosselin has sequestered herself to polish up her moves. Lisa Stanley , a US radio personality, said the reality TV star was shimmying away at the Beverly Wilshire Four Seasons Hotel – sans kids. TLC , the network that produced Jon & Kate , has not revealed its plans for Gosselin, who recently divorced Jon , and lives with her eight children in Pennsylvania. Stanley’s radio station KEARTH 101 , meanwhile, put out a press release to say Gosselin was “under a shroud of security at the Beverly Wilshire Four Seasons Hotel, rehearsing her dance steps with no children to be seen.” What do you think, will Kate join the show?
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Kate Gosselin ‘Dancing With The Stars?’
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Although Walter and Judith Koenig bailed on last night’s Larry King Live, there is no hard feelings on the network’s part. “Our heartfelt thoughts and prayers are…
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CNN Offers "Prayers" to Koenig Family in Wake of Larry King Walk-Off
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The Second City Network preemptively declares a winner of today's Health Care Summit . Curiously, Fox News is reporting that the summit won't even be on C-SPAN . Watch
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‘Today I interviewed a squirrel in my backyard and then threw to commercial,’ former ‘Tonight Show’ host joked. By Joel Hanek Conan O’Brien Photo: Bryan Bedder/ Getty Images Conan O’Brien has been lying low since his final “Tonight Show” appearance on January 22, where he performed a hilarious and heartwarming rendition of Lynyrd Skynyrd’s “Free Bird” alongside Will Ferrell to close out the show. On Wednesday, however, the comedian broke his silence through what is currently one of the most popular mediums for celebrities: Twitter. “Today I interviewed a squirrel in my backyard and then threw to commercial,” O’Brien tweeted . “Somebody help me.” With just one tweet and less than 24 hours since signing up for the social-networking site, O’Brien has already gained over 235,000 followers. At the beginning of the year, O’Brien and his longtime employer NBC were involved in a much publicized disaccord over the future of “The Tonight Show.” After receiving low ratings due to a failed experiment that involved moving previous “Tonight Show” host Jay Leno to a 10 p.m. time slot and letting O’Brien helm the late-night staple, NBC proposed to push Leno’s new show to 11:30 and bump O’Brien’s “Tonight Show” back to 12:05 a.m. Believing that a time slot shift would “seriously damage” what Conan called “the greatest franchise in the history of broadcasting,” O’Brien chose to walk away from the network with a $33 million settlement deal. The comedian sardonically joked about the ordeal in the “Bio” section of his Twitter profile: “I had a show. Then I had a different show. Now I have a Twitter account.” Conan chose to create a Twitter account just days before Jay Leno will resume hosting “The Tonight Show” on Monday, March 1. And while O’Brien has not announced any future plans to host another talk show, in January, NBC picked up a series produced by his company, Conaco . And judging from the traffic on his Twitter, it’s clear that his army of dedicated fans still care what the comedian has to say.
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Conan O’Brien Joins Twitter
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Jon Gosselin may be jobless, generally lame and stuck with a stubby package , but at least one burden is off his back. His legal dispute with TLC has been settled. “TLC has reached a settlement with Jon Gosselin and will be undertaking procedural steps to conclude the litigation,” the network said in a statement Wednesday. All terms of the settlement are confidential. “The whole Gosselin family remain under contract with TLC,” the network said. Hmm. Wonder if Jon played his last available chip and agreed to pimp out his kids . While Jon & Kate Plus 8 remains dead, a source close to the situation says that the network “hopes they will soon be able to film the family again” in some form. FREE OF TLC : Jon Gosselin finally got TLC out of his hair. No worries, though – the plugs and copious amounts of gel are still firmly in place up atop that dome. The ugly legal battle started with TLC trying to phase him out of the show, which sparked his pulling the plug on the hit show citing an exploitation of his kids. That prompted a lawsuit filed by TLC against Gosselin for alleged breach of contract, claiming that he was making paid TV appearances without their consent. Which was pretty obvious. TLC sought and won an injunction effectively making Jon STFU. Later, Gosselin filed a $5-million counterclaim, saying that the network damaged his career. All water under the bridge now, though. Jon is free to go back to … whatever it is he’s doing. What’s the word for it … hmm … oh yeah, Morgan Christie .
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Jon Gosselin, TLC Agree to Legal Settlement
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Octomom needs to get a freaking job. That being said, her reportedly meeting with the Game Show Network and seeking employment, seems slightly less ridiculous than it would for most “stars.” With 14 mouths to feed, Nadya Suleman could use some cash money, especially now that her reality TV show appears to be a no-go as a continuing project. Bad news for Octomom. Good for everyone else. Nadya Suleman and one of her six non-octuplets. The Game Show Network features shows including High Stakes Poker, Catch 21 and The Newlywed Game , in addition to tons and tons of reruns 24/7/365. Nadya’s reps won’t say if she’s meeting to be a guest star on a show or looking for a real job. But Radar Online has confirmed she is seeking employment . She has been criticized for relying on taxpayer money to feed her children and said she would like to write a book and also eventually work as a counselor. LOL. That’s worse than Conrad Murray being a doctor! Oh, wait … Potential ideas for a new Octomom game show: The Welfare Challenge; Find That Embryo; Fertility Doctor Lawsuits ; How Much Can Your Vagina Take?
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Octomom: Aspiring Game Show Host?
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