IN AN INCREDIBLE GESTURE OF SOLIDARITY, THE FIVE MAIN
CAST MEMBERS OF THE BIG BANG THEORY HAD DECIDED TO GIVE
THEMSELVES A PAY CUT SO THAT THEIR OTHER CAST
MEMBERS COULD HAVE A PAY INCREASE.
JIM PARSONS,
JOHNNY GALECKI, KALEY CUOCO, KUNAL NAYYAR AND SIMON HELBERG
REPORTEDLY MAKE ABOUT $1
MILLION AN EPISODE AND THEY ARE NOW SAYING THAT THEY ARE
GOING TO TAKE A PAY CUT OF ABOUT $100,000 SO THAT THEIR CAST
MEMBERS MAYIM BIALIK AND MELISSA RAUCH COULD HAVE A PAY INCREASE.
BOTH ACTRESSES ARE MAKING ABOUT $200,000 PER EPISODE RIGHT NOW.
THE POOR HOUSE.
IF BIALIK AND RAUCH SPLIT THE $500,000
FROM THE COSTARS THAT WOULD BE NEARLY $480,000 AN EPISODE
ARE MORE THAN $21 MILLION FOR THE TWO-YEAR 48 EPISODE DEAL.
I THINK THIS IS AN CREDIBLE MOVE BY THE CAST MEMBERS.
ITíS
SIMILAR TO THE MOVEMENT THE FRIENDS CAST MEMBERS MADE TO
MADE SURE THAT THERE WAS PARITY FOR EQUAL WORK AND EQUAL PAY.
BUT IT IS KIND OF, TWO ABSURD FACTS ABOUT WITHOUT THE
FIRST BEING THAT THEY ARE MAKING $1
MILLION AND EPISODE I THINK THAT IS RIDICULOUS AND THEN I
THINK THE SECOND ABSURD FACT IS THAT THEY HAVE TO TAKE A
PAY CUT SO THAT THEIR CAST MEMBERS CAN GET A PAY INCREASE.
I UNDERSTAND, BEN MAYBE YOU CAN DO A BETTER JOB EXPLAINING
THIS ABOUT THE RULES OF SYNDICATION IN THE WAY THE
SHOW IS STILL MAKING MONEY NOW BUT IT'S KIND OF SILLY THAT
THEY DON'T JUST INCREASE THE OTHER CAST MEMBERS SALARIES.
I DON'T THINK IT'S ABSURD BECAUSE THIS IS ONE OF THE
BIGGEST SHOWS ON TV ALL OUR FRIENDS.
FRIENDS WAS BACK FIRST CASTED THAT WAS MAKING ABOUT $1
MILLION AN EPISODE.
ALL THE MAIN CHARACTERS.
SIX PEOPLE.
BUT SYNDICATION IS VARIES IN DIFFERENT COUNTRIES,
DIFFERENT TERRITORIES, DIFFERENT DEALS THAT ARE CUT AND EACH
ONE IS THE STATION, THIS NETWORK BUYING THE EPISODES SO
THEY'RE GETTING MONEY FROM EACH DEAL AND IT CAN BE
DIFFERENT BASED ON THE COUNTRIES AND WHEREVER THEY ARE.
MY IN BIALIK WHICH I STILL LOVE FROM BLOSSOM.
AND MELISSA RAUCH, DAVE BEEN INTEGRAL PARTS IN THE STORYLINE
AND I EVEN LOOK AT THEM AS COSTARS, ACTUALLY LOOK AT THEM
AS MAIN STARS HOWEVER THEY ARE NOT AS POPULAR AS
THEY WEREN'T THERE, THEY WERE THERE AT THE BEGINNING.
THEY WERE IN THE ORIGINAL FIVE CAST MEMBERS.
WHERE ON SEASON 11
RIGHT NOW, SO SOME POINT THEY SHOULD BE WELL OVER 200,000.
THEY SHOULD'VE AT LEAST BEEN AT 500 TO 750.
200,000 AND EPISODE, 25% A YEAR, THE $20 MILLION.
IT'S A LOT OF MONEY UNDOUBTEDLY BUT I DON'T THINK
THAT JUST BECAUSE IT'S A LOT OF MONEY YOU GET TO SAY THAT THEY
GET TO MAKE THAT MUCH SMALLER THAN THE REST OF THE STUFF.
I DON'T THINK THEY NEED TO MAKE THE SAME AMOUNT
THE COSTARS ARE COMING IN TO HELP MOTIVATE.
AS LONG AS JOHNNY COLLECTING IS SET FINANCIALLY.
I'M BAFFLED BY THE SHOW'S SUCCESS BUT MORE POWER TO THEM.
IS AN AMAZING SHOW THAT
IT'S NOT THAT IS ACTUALLY NOT A MATTER OF OPINION, YOU
ARE MISTAKEN.
WHAT THEY DO IS BECAUSE THEY TAKE THINGS FIGURATIVELY AND
THEY INTERPRETED THEM LITERALLY AND IT'S FUNNY.
THAT SAID, THE REASON THEY DON'T GIVE THE OTHER PEOPLE MORE MONEY
IS BECAUSE OF SOME POINT YOU CAMPAIGN THE KASEI MUCH MONEY.
THEIR FIVE STARS, YOU AND AT 7.
THE 7 MILLION AN EPISODE, 20 REPRESENTS YEAR.
THAT'S A LOT OF MONEY AT THE
AND THEY ARE MAKING IT.
I GOT A, THEY'RE MAKING A BUT THERE IS NOT A LIMITLESS
AMOUNT OF MONEY.
I WANT THE WRITERS TO GET PAID.
THEY DO.
THERE IS A UNION FEELING YOU GET WHEN YOU DELIVER YOUR
EPISODE, YOU ARE PAID FOR A WEEK THAT YOU WERE THERE AS PART
OF THE WRITING STAFF.
BUT YOU ARE NOT GETTING $200,000 AND EPISODE.
IN 2006 IT WAS $36,000 FOR WRITING YOUR EPISODE.
THAT WAS THE UNION MINIMUM FOR WRITING YOUR EPISODE.
WITH HAPPEN IS THEY ALL PRINCETON, EVERYONE'S HER,
THEY GET A WEEKLY SALARY AND THEN OF THE WRITING STAFF
YOU'LL WRITE THREE EPISODES OUT OF 22.
FOR EACH OF THOSE TO GET 26 AND IT MIGHT DEPENDING ON YOUR
CONTRACT, YOU GET ADDITIONAL FOR EVERY YEAR.
IT'S A NICE GESTURE, BUT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT A
GESTURE OF MILLIONAIRES TRANSFERRING SOME OF THE
MONEY TO OTHER MILLIONAIRES.
THE BILLIONAIRES GIVEN IT TO THE BILLIONAIRES.
FOR A SHOW THAT IS WILDLY OVERRATED.
BUT I GOT YOU.
IT'S A BEAUTIFUL GESTURE FROM THESE CAST MEMBERS.
ITíS
IMPORTANT THAT THEY'RE RECOGNIZING THIS AND I THINK
IT COMMUNICATES TO WHOEVER IS IN CHARGE OF DECIDING THE SALARIES
THAT THEY ARE WILLING TO DO THIS AND THE IMPORTANCE IN THIS.
I THINK IT'S A GOOD BECAUSE IT SETS THE TONE OF
HOLLYWOOD AS WELL TO START.
THE DIALOGUE IS BEEN THERE BUT NOW ARE WE ARE STARTING A
CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED VERY AWARDED SHOW
KENNY.
I STATE THE FOLLOWING: THE PERSON WHO SHOULD MAKE THE MOST
MONEY IS FIRST JIM PARSONS WHO SHOULD MAKE FOUR TIMES WHEN
EVERY OTHER PERSON MAKES IT BECAUSE HE IS THE BEST
PERSON ON THE SHOW.
JOHNNY GALECKI SHOULD BE WAY IN THE BACK JUST BECAUSE HE IS
NOT DOING A VERY GOOD JOB.
I THINK KUNAL DOES A GREAT JOB AND KALEY DOES A TERRIBLE
JOB AND SIMON DOES A GREAT JOB.
MAYIM BIALIK, SHE'S BLOSSOM.
SHE IS INFALLIBLE.
BUT THE TRUTH IS, I LIKE THIS STORY BECAUSE FREQUENTLY
YOU WILL SEE A BUNCH OF MATHIS SAYS THIS PERSON WAS IN THE
SAME MOVIE AS I PRESENTED GET PAID AS MUCH.
WELL, AND HOLLYWOOD THERE ARE LEADING PEOPLE AND THEN
THERE ARE THE ONES WHO ARE THE SUPPORT AND THE SUPPORT
PEOPLE SHOULDN'T GET PAID AS MUCH AS THE LEADING FOLKS I
THINK WE SHOULD DO EVERYTHING WE CAN TO MAKE SURE THAT AS
MANY TALENTED ACTORS AS POSSIBLE GET A SHOT AT THAT LEADING
PART BUT I AGREE THAT AT THIS POINT IN THE LIFE OF THE
BIG BANG THEORY THEY ARE ALL EQUALLY RESPONSIBLE EXCEPT
JOHNNY GALECKI FOR THE SUCCESS OF THE SHOW.
I DON'T KNOW WHY, I WANT TO LIKE THEM BUT I JUST DON'T.
IT WAS EQUATED TO SPORTS?
JIM PARSONS IS THE RUB ON LEBRON JAMES THE STEAM DOUBT
LEBRON JAMES IS PAID WHAT IS PAID, EVERYONE ELSE IS NOT
ON HIS LEVELS THEY'RE NOT PAID HIS LEVEL TO WHAT WE DID IT
THAT WAY AN?
THIS IS THE EQUIVALENT OF THEM ALL TAKING A PAY CUT
TO PLAY TOGETHER.
IT DOESN'T MATTER THE CHARACTERS YOU LIKE OR IF
YOU THINK THEY ARE GOOD ACTOR NOT.
IT DEPENDS ON THE
CONTRIBUTIONS OF THEYíRE MAKING TO THE SHOW.
AT THEIR MAKING BETTER CONTRIBUTIONS THEY SHOULD
BE PAID ACCORDINGLY.
I THINK THAT'S VERY SIMPLE TO
I'VE ONLY SEEN THE FIRST TWO SEASONS AND THEN AGAIN A
LATER SEASON SO I DIDN'T SEE THE WHOLE ARCH.
I KNOW SHE WAS MISSED
USED IN THE FIRST TWO SEASONS AND IT WAS A CRIME.
CAN WE JUST AGREE THAT JOHNNY GALECKI IS TERRIBLE ON THE
SHOW?
WE CAN AGREE ON THAT?