Roy Wood Jr.

I don't think, well, I don't know.

Depending on...

Depending on the guild, there's going to be minimums that you have to carry for late night.

I know right now, Daily Show, we carry we carry a pretty good.

We got a deep bench, but we have to because we had a bunch of you would be inspired.

Yeah.

If the guild said 12, I'd rather have 12.

I think the Guild is going to say 12.

I don't need 12.

You might be able to do it with 8.

If I say 8, then everyone's going to do it with 8.

Correct.

But then there's ways you can play within those margins, right?

And I don't want to get all David Sampson, how to finagle the salary cap type shit, but

I could carry 12 writers.

And if that's more money, then you could shoot two episodes on one day and save a production day.

Like that's one way to get, like, that's what a lot of daytime, like daytime talk, but they do that because their shit's evergreen.

What if you did it like Leno in the 90s and just had strangers fax you?

And if you use the joke, give them 100 bucks.

That was a true thing, by the way.