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Hecklers disrupt Last Call with Carson Daly

by Bob Sassone, posted Dec 12th 2007 2:41PM

Carson DalyReally, this was inevitable.

Last night, Daly was taping an interview with football star Jerry Rice when an audience member stood up and yelled at Daly, saying he was doing a lousy interview and needed a writer to write the questions for him. Guards escorted the heckler out and they restarted the interview, only to be interrupted once again by another audience member who said "I feel so bad for the striking writers. Can I please leave?" This guy and two others were hauled out too.

But it's what happened next that is most interesting. Security said that if anyone else got up and interrupted the show, they would be prosecuted. They advised any writers in the audience to get up and leave, and 20 people got up and left! Carson was visibly upset, according to people who were there. Hopefully this footage will make it to the web. One of the guys taken out had actually won a prize from Daly just moments before the incident.

Somehow, I don't think this would happen to Letterman, even if he did return.

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Connie Dinkle

They should have thrown Carson a foot-long sandwich. My daughter Tonya swears he's manorexic. And he has that big Pez head.

Creepy.

December 12 2007 at 11:27 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
YouFaceTheTick

i can't stand carson daly but really, WTF is wrong with these writers? I don't give a flying f^ck if you feel your current agreement with your employer doesn't work out in your favor. don't work. that's fine. Or negotiate a better deal for YOURSELF but this union BS and this concept that it's okay to screw over other working people just rubs me the wrong way...ugh. I hate groupthink.

December 12 2007 at 11:22 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Tony

Another fine example of the lack of class the writers have. This goes right along with the writers spoofing the AMPTP website. What a bunch of classless hacks. Daly is trying to keep the other 75 staff members employed so they don't get fired right before Christmas and all these selfish writers can do is attack him and disrupt his show. I now have absolutely NO sympathy for those "writers". Classless human beings.

December 12 2007 at 10:57 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Stigmata

its amazing that these a**hole writers can intimidate ppl like this, god i hope SANTA shoves a giant lump of coal down their throats!

December 12 2007 at 10:46 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Dorv

Considering that they're currently not being paid, I'm pretty sure Santa will be skipping their houses this year anyways, unless folks saved in advance. (I'm not saying Santa is skipping because they've been naughty, just because they are broke).

December 12 2007 at 10:54 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
4ham

Folks watch last call?

And under what law would hecklers be prosecuted under? I've got no clue since I've never been in a tv audience before.

December 12 2007 at 7:12 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
sitruc

Why wouldn't this happen to Letterman? I thought it was his non-writing staff he is paying.

December 12 2007 at 5:52 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Sam

I'm sorry but this is the funniest thing that has ever been associated with his show.

December 12 2007 at 5:45 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Oreo

Wow! They had people watching! :)

December 12 2007 at 5:05 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
JW

I am happy Carson is back and he is doing the best ever! I like his show now that it's just bunch of going with the flow kind of thing. That's what a TALK show should be about anyways. Carson got the job when NBC used to air a show called "Late" after Conan as a hipper show for the all nighters. They used to swap hosts each week and I guess they liked Carson the best and just made it his show.

December 12 2007 at 4:53 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
helas

I've always wondered how Carson Daly ever got a show in the first place! There's got to be ten funnier guys within a stone's throw around him at any given time...one of his writers, the skinny guy with the beard, he's a million times funnier (he often participates in the skits), anyone know his name? Anyway, I support the writers. The producers are trying to screw them over, simple as that. Yeah, there's a lot of crap on TV, agreed, but without writers, there would be NOTHING but 'reality TV' on (and even that crap is written by someone, believe me).

December 12 2007 at 4:26 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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David W.

I've watched the show like twice? and Carson just isn't funny, no matter how hard he tries, and his interviews always come off as akward...

have you seen craig ferguson show though? That guy is really friggin funny, and he doesn't need his writers for help either!

December 13 2007 at 1:16 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply

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