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Laughs On Fox Takes Advantage (VIDEO)

October 20, 2014 | celebrity | matt-ralston | 0 Comments

If you’ve seen the fall season’s latest shit box called Laughs on Fox you should really get out more. Rat faced joke poacher and probable jaundice victim Steve Hofstetter produces the show, which means some shit for brains executive he went to college with owes him a favor. The show tours the country looking for up and coming comedians and graces them with the opportunity to have their act shown on air. The problem is the performers don’t get paid. You don’t have to pay people who aren’t in the Screen Actors Guild when they appear on TV, just like you don’t have to offer your buddy a six pack when he fixes your chimney flue. It’s in good taste, but not legally required. Hofstetter is spinning his tight wad policy into an act of benevolence:

“If we were a union show, we couldn’t break new comedians. Imagine telling a young comedian that he or she gets to be on TV for the first time, but has to spend $3,000 to join a union in order to do so?”

It sure would suck to get paid $10K then have to pay $3K to the union. This must be that Common Core Math that Al Qaeda tricked our U.S. government into promoting so we’ll be too dumb to invent missiles in one generation’s time. I hope Hofstetter gets class action sued by a bevy of desperate joke tellers and he has to forfeit his Sebring convertible. Stand up comedians may be the bukkake level basement whores they bring out for the ten dollar Johnnies on tour through Bangkok, but, ten dollars is ten dollars. Even a Thai sex slave wouldn’t be expected to work for promotional consideration only.

Edited to Add: Steve Hofstetter wrote in response to the post above:

“Your piece uses an old blog as your one source. We do pay our artists. We even pay people who’s tweets and vines we feature. All of em. Here’s the real story (facebook link).”

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