Exhibit A: Trevor Noah Pays Salaries of Furloughed ‘Daily Show’ Crew (EXCLUSIVE) – Variety
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Exhibit B: ‘Ellen’ Crew Furious Over Coronavirus Shutdown Pay (EXCLUSIVE) – Variety
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Variety has learned that Noah is personally paying the salaries of 25 furloughed members of “The Daily Show” crew amid the industry-wide production shutdown prompted by the coronavirus pandemic. Noah has informed crew members that he will continue to pay their salaries until production begins to ramp back up in the television industry.
“These are the people who have been on the show with Trevor from day one and help him put on the show,” a source close to the production tells Variety. “Trevor is personally covering their salaries until the production business opens again. He respects his crew tremendously and feels it’s only right that they get thru this together.”
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Exhibit B: ‘Ellen’ Crew Furious Over Coronavirus Shutdown Pay (EXCLUSIVE) – Variety
The core stage crew for “The Ellen DeGeneres Show,” consisting of more than 30 employees, received no written communication about the status of their working hours, pay, or inquiries about their mental and physical health from producers for over a month, said two sources, both of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity. Higher-ups in production would occasionally answer phone calls but reveal little, added one of the sources. The crew was further incensed by the show’s recent hire of an outside, non-union tech company to help DeGeneres tape remotely from her home in California.
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