Spotted at 30 Rock: The hottest T&A duo ever to strut its hallowed halls, aka Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, standing in solidarity against The Man with a scrum of fellow writers, so close to our spy that you might say they were within...striking distance. (See, producers? There's a REASON these people should be paid!). As you by now know, the Writer's Guild of America is officially on strike after last-ditch talks with a federal mediator failed after an eleventh-hour attempt at a save (literally, the talks went for 11 hours). Today is the first day of what is sadly looking like what could be a a long drawn-out fight, and Poehler (who is not on strike, just in solidarity) will feel it first, since the reactive shows like SNL, Letterman, The Daily Show and the Colbert Report work off current events (people keep mentioning The View in here, too, which I find confusing. Sherri Shepherd has a writer?). So far, public sympathy seems to be with the writers — this week's SNL featured a segment wherein Fred Armisen portrayed a greedy studio head insisting that he wasn't making any money off writers — and gray-areas writers-cum-bosses like Fey, standing with their creative brethren (Fey is a hyphenate — a writer-producer-actor, who will finish shooting this week and then go back to the picket lines with writers after; and reputedly but not confirmedly, Jon Stewart is being similarly supportive to the writers). Presidential candidate Barack Obama today released a statement in support of the writers, saying "The Guild's demand is a test of whether corporate media corporations are going to give writers a fair share of the wealth their work creates or continue concentrating profits in the hands of their executives. " Yeah, you know he appreciates that sweet cameo on SNL this week. (Blog synchronicity!)

More information at HuffPo's Strike News and Strike Opinion pages, and sorry for faking you out about the T&A up top. I did promise you "all of her," though, didn't we — ah well, I suppose I can tell you now: My spy said that the Daily Show's John Oliver was there, too. Get it? Oliver? All-Of-Her? Haaaaa! Go ahead, producers! Don't pay your professional writers, there's plenty of good material out there, no, really!

Here's the SNL clip, 'cause that's just how we seem to be rolling these days:




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WGA Strike: Moonves Sort Of Misses The Point [ETP]

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