Name: How The “Ridiculousness” Writers Can Settle Their Strike with Rob Dyrdek
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'How The “Ridiculousness” Writers Can Settle Their Strike with Rob Dyrdek' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2024-01-31. Transcript available.

that the fact people have to go on strike to get paid it's crazy when they're
already out here
all the time you spend volunteering as actress to even get work and then you
have to go on strike
and be in a union um what was the thing that it said with deer deck a bunch of
people went to um
what was that uh i don't know did you see that no what happened about
ridiculousness they changed
the amount of episodes um they're always trying to really screw over the people
in
like they can't fight back yes like if you're like an extra and you were like
in batman and you were
the hot dog guy you can't yeah you can't afford the attorneys that are going to
battle them you can't
fight back so they're basically like we've just we've just ai'd you you're the
hot dog guy and
everything now and then it's like hell because then you're the famous hot dog
guy people come
back from the movie theater and they go that's my dad yeah but then they have
no money have no way to
contact no money and he's he's living in the desert and it's terrible and like
people just see him all
the time they go and he's got like you know he's got maybe diabetes or
something and he's just sitting
there and they're going you're the guy that always serves the hot dog to every
superhero he has no
money no way to even get home he's put he'll literally put just sit there all
day and put mustard
on his finger in the middle of the desert in the salt flats of the california
nevada desert living
there and they go this guy is a hot dog guy and they act like he died he doesn't
even die and
they have like an in memoriam to him because they don't want to pay him anymore
they don't want to
pay him so they just say he died and he's screaming in a greyhound bus station
because i'm alive you
i'm alive ridiculousness writers stormed rob didick's office asking for a
meeting but he was nowhere to be
found so they straight up tried to get him yep on january 4th the writers of
ridiculousness asked host
and executive producer rob didick for his support for a fair contract wow wow
they just want a fair
contract apparently around 10 of the show's writers stormed the index office
but were turned away when they
called and left messages no one answered because you know what it is they
looked at january 6th and they go
that got some results like that woke people up a little bit that got some heat
you know that got
some heat you know rightly or wrongly it got some heat so i think a lot of
these writers were like
let's just storm his office right now yeah and try to like they asked host deer
deck for support for
a fair contract my name is ryan connor uh i am here i know my fellow writers at
rob's office he's a nice
guy because we just wanted to ask him for his support in our efforts to get our
first he was a comic in
new york city wow tried to go up uh oh gosh gosh sorry oh no that's okay uh we
called we left a message
nobody answered hi uh this is the writers from ridiculousness we are here in
the ground floor of
the building just to ask if we could that's good talk to raw so it looks like
they're trying to go
there and get a hold of him and they can't is that the gist of it nick that is
that's a gist
and you know that guy ryan connor yeah he was a nice guy he was a comic in new
york city
and i guess he moved out here i guess became a writer wow and what did that
article say towards
the end nick do you mind um oh it said uh we are currently compensated at a
rate well below our peers
nope well below our peers writing for wga coverage shows like ridiculousness
the next step is they're
gonna have to kidnap him well and they're gonna call and they're gonna go we
have him like we have
rob dyrdek and what do you want from him and yeah and i'm not saying that i
condone that no of course
not but i'm saying like the next step logically logically is to kidnap rob dyrdek
and they're gonna
go hi and he can do it like just the way he did it he'd be like hey i'm his ryan
connor and uh i i
just want to say we have rob dyrdek but it's just like we tried it the first
way yeah we tried it
your way we went to the lobby remember that it's like terminator and he's in a
box he hits box like
make some sounds it's me they got me and ryan goes yeah yeah get it by a
skateboard yeah yeah yeah
he goes he goes we got rubbed your deck here he's unharmed hit the box ah hear
him he's unarmed but we
are just trying to get a fair contract so let's start the negotiation let's
start it now let's just
start it now because we have rob at an undisclosed location but that's the next
logical step here you
have to kidnap uh you have to commandeer you have to commandeer rob dyrdek yes
for a few days yes for
a few days to just get people awake awake because this doesn't by the way i see
that i see people in the
lobby of the building i go all right yeah so what you know but you gotta pay
these people you gotta
pay them money what does it say about the episodes in it they used to do 30 in
2011 when they started
and now they're doing 336 wow a year and they're not union wow well they gotta
put them in a box
yeah i mean or they could do the old school move you ever see march of wooden
soldiers uh uh laurel and
hardy fat guy thin guy brilliant they nail themselves in a box the old school
move yeah to rob troy rob
exactly trojan horse trojan horse rob dyrdek they're like he goes oh someone
sent something like the studio
sends something nice to the house they got a big box it opens and it's the
whole writing staff yeah
right there there it is standing ollie it's the whole writing staff and then
all of a sudden
then but then they still here's what's interesting about that they actually
still have to kidnap them
right so it's like forget the box they still have but they still mean business
they still need a way to get in the building it's a way to get in the building
but they have to just say
hi my name is ryan connor i'm a writer at ridiculousness and we have rob yeah
we tried it
your way yeah and but rob is here and rob is now very enthusiastic about this
new contract aren't you rob
hit the cage rob
rob has had a change of heart he's actually leading the charge
for this new contract right in the cage yes yeah give give them anything they
want we're not even
asking for that rob but thank you for saying that i believe we have them on
that's that quote yeah
that's cool you just heard was give them anything they want please i just want
to leave here alive
he's being fed yeah we're taking care of him no one's abusing him you think if
i don't even think
they pay people to i think they offered me to go on that show before and they
don't even pay you to go
it's not good if they're not paying they don't even pay you to go be a guest on
that show yeah
like they say oh well you get publicity out of it that's what they always say
about everything
we're paying you an exposure right but yeah these people are exposed they are
they don't have health
care that's the people exposed they're in the elements yeah you think you think
writing 336 episodes
of this show yeah what even is this show they get like snooki and someone else
to they get snooki and
then they commandeer some brother out there right and uh you know it's usually
like somebody that
knocked up a kardashian or something or at least came near one and they get
them to um right to do to
to to literally look at videos of people who are breaking their necks right
doing different stunts
gotcha and then and make fun of them they say that right okay well again i chanel
west coast is on it
she's actually really funny yeah she's really funny i just you know i'm i'm
never a person for extremes
but i do believe in this rare instance it just bargaining power being what it
is it just if you
have them it makes it a lot easier yeah yeah i agree just throwing it out if
you have them and it
unders like like think about the movie seven great movie seven great movie now
the reason that everybody
was so uh wound up in seven is because there's there's a serial killer who just
kept like leaving
little notes yeah you know communicating with the cops making phone calls yeah
gossipy kind of gossipy
kind of guy but he didn't show up in the um you know like the office building
you know what i mean
what he was able to do is really capture people's attention by by actually
going like hey i got the i
i'm i'm i got the thing i got the guy so the reality is what they need to do is
just in a nice way
uh kidnap him yeah i think commandeering is the term we like to use that's
correct
commandeering someone commandeering someone yeah for the purposes of a
negotiate contract negotiation
is great yeah well look it's getting to that point yeah i won't be because at
one point all it's
going to take is the policeman to say wait i'm not on the side of this company
no the police i'm on the
side of this person here's the brilliant thing about this the police might help
this yeah the police
how is that the police might they they might not look too hard for him right
they might not be looking
too hard for him okay because the show i believe is celebrating accidents right
yeah celebrating just
public lawlessness the cops aren't looking too hard for this guy and plus here's
the thing if they're
not paying people for the clips that i'm using i'm sure they're not right and
they're not paying guests
to go on there and i there's probably like some guy in like on a stretcher and
they just like a
producer runs up to him and they go do you mind if we use this on ridiculousness
and they're like great
yeah well you're putting a little of your saliva on this contract right yeah um
but i and i remember
them offering and they did not offer a payment on it but then who's making all
the money then
probably the network i mean the show these days it's only ridiculous it's their
own what was the deal
they had and i'm all for people making money yeah and i'm not trying to on rob
maybe it's just a
misunderstanding but no and maybe he's doing the right thing i'm not right we're
not being negative
we're just saying zoom i'm zooming out i'm zooming out that this is an overall
this i don't even care
who he is who they are yeah i'm just talking about negotiations in general
agreed one person usually
has all the leverage yeah is my point and if yeah yeah and sometimes you have
to bring a true article
to the uh yeah like to the what the writers did there we had no imagination
right which maybe
both means they shouldn't be getting paid maybe they shouldn't be getting paid
i gotta be honest
i didn't see one funny thing happening yeah that's a good point there was not
one funny thing those
writers but sometimes you got to bring a real article to the negotiation
dressed up like clowns
and they were like oh you're treating us like clowns but bloody clowns or big
like remember big that
passed away remember rob and big what if they all dressed up like big and like
mummified big like we came back
from the grave and big would be ashamed of this yes big would be ashamed of the
way we're being treated
kind of like a christmas story like a christmas carol r.i.p big too man big so
if they also our
our thing is telling the writers to do blackface well i well i'd go sure but i
i'm just saying at this
point at this point you're desperate affirmative action desperate matters yeah
now i get it now a black
writer you get they call rob dude they go listen listen to this the writers are
mad they're in the lobby of the
building here's here's where they up rob they're all in blackface you're off
the hook you're actually
or you don't have to pay any of them or hollywood's so scared of everything
like we better pay these
black writers right now that's right that's the truth that's a good point hollywood
would be like
the last thing we want to do is upset the black community that's right yeah
they come in if i yeah
if i were black i would just sue everybody in hollywood that's true to be
honest with you
that's a good point to be honest with you start suing every human being in hollywood

How The “Ridiculousness” Writers Can Settle Their Strike with Rob Dyrdek

that the fact people have to go on strike to get paid it's crazy when they're
already out here
all the time you spend volunteering as actress to even get work and then you
have to go on strike
and be in a union um what was the thing that it said with deer deck a bunch of
people went to um
what was that uh i don't know did you see that no what happened about
ridiculousness they changed
the amount of episodes um they're always trying to really screw over the people
in
like they can't fight back yes like if you're like an extra and you were like
in batman and you were
the hot dog guy you can't yeah you can't afford the attorneys that are going to
battle them you can't
fight back so they're basically like we've just we've just ai'd you you're the
hot dog guy and
everything now and then it's like hell because then you're the famous hot dog
guy people come
back from the movie theater and they go that's my dad yeah but then they have
no money have no way to
contact no money and he's he's living in the desert and it's terrible and like
people just see him all
the time they go and he's got like you know he's got maybe diabetes or
something and he's just sitting
there and they're going you're the guy that always serves the hot dog to every
superhero he has no
money no way to even get home he's put he'll literally put just sit there all
day and put mustard
on his finger in the middle of the desert in the salt flats of the california
nevada desert living
there and they go this guy is a hot dog guy and they act like he died he doesn't
even die and
they have like an in memoriam to him because they don't want to pay him anymore
they don't want to
pay him so they just say he died and he's screaming in a greyhound bus station
because i'm alive you
i'm alive ridiculousness writers stormed rob didick's office asking for a
meeting but he was nowhere to be
found so they straight up tried to get him yep on january 4th the writers of
ridiculousness asked host
and executive producer rob didick for his support for a fair contract wow wow
they just want a fair
contract apparently around 10 of the show's writers stormed the index office
but were turned away when they
called and left messages no one answered because you know what it is they
looked at january 6th and they go
that got some results like that woke people up a little bit that got some heat
you know that got
some heat you know rightly or wrongly it got some heat so i think a lot of
these writers were like
let's just storm his office right now yeah and try to like they asked host deer
deck for support for
a fair contract my name is ryan connor uh i am here i know my fellow writers at
rob's office he's a nice
guy because we just wanted to ask him for his support in our efforts to get our
first he was a comic in
new york city wow tried to go up uh oh gosh gosh sorry oh no that's okay uh we
called we left a message
nobody answered hi uh this is the writers from ridiculousness we are here in
the ground floor of
the building just to ask if we could that's good talk to raw so it looks like
they're trying to go
there and get a hold of him and they can't is that the gist of it nick that is
that's a gist
and you know that guy ryan connor yeah he was a nice guy he was a comic in new
york city
and i guess he moved out here i guess became a writer wow and what did that
article say towards
the end nick do you mind um oh it said uh we are currently compensated at a
rate well below our peers
nope well below our peers writing for wga coverage shows like ridiculousness
the next step is they're
gonna have to kidnap him well and they're gonna call and they're gonna go we
have him like we have
rob dyrdek and what do you want from him and yeah and i'm not saying that i
condone that no of course
not but i'm saying like the next step logically logically is to kidnap rob dyrdek
and they're gonna
go hi and he can do it like just the way he did it he'd be like hey i'm his ryan
connor and uh i i
just want to say we have rob dyrdek but it's just like we tried it the first
way yeah we tried it
your way we went to the lobby remember that it's like terminator and he's in a
box he hits box like
make some sounds it's me they got me and ryan goes yeah yeah get it by a
skateboard yeah yeah yeah
he goes he goes we got rubbed your deck here he's unharmed hit the box ah hear
him he's unarmed but we
are just trying to get a fair contract so let's start the negotiation let's
start it now let's just
start it now because we have rob at an undisclosed location but that's the next
logical step here you
have to kidnap uh you have to commandeer you have to commandeer rob dyrdek yes
for a few days yes for
a few days to just get people awake awake because this doesn't by the way i see
that i see people in the
lobby of the building i go all right yeah so what you know but you gotta pay
these people you gotta
pay them money what does it say about the episodes in it they used to do 30 in
2011 when they started
and now they're doing 336 wow a year and they're not union wow well they gotta
put them in a box
yeah i mean or they could do the old school move you ever see march of wooden
soldiers uh uh laurel and
hardy fat guy thin guy brilliant they nail themselves in a box the old school
move yeah to rob troy rob
exactly trojan horse trojan horse rob dyrdek they're like he goes oh someone
sent something like the studio
sends something nice to the house they got a big box it opens and it's the
whole writing staff yeah
right there there it is standing ollie it's the whole writing staff and then
all of a sudden
then but then they still here's what's interesting about that they actually
still have to kidnap them
right so it's like forget the box they still have but they still mean business
they still need a way to get in the building it's a way to get in the building
but they have to just say
hi my name is ryan connor i'm a writer at ridiculousness and we have rob yeah
we tried it
your way yeah and but rob is here and rob is now very enthusiastic about this
new contract aren't you rob
hit the cage rob
rob has had a change of heart he's actually leading the charge
for this new contract right in the cage yes yeah give give them anything they
want we're not even
asking for that rob but thank you for saying that i believe we have them on
that's that quote yeah
that's cool you just heard was give them anything they want please i just want
to leave here alive
he's being fed yeah we're taking care of him no one's abusing him you think if
i don't even think
they pay people to i think they offered me to go on that show before and they
don't even pay you to go
it's not good if they're not paying they don't even pay you to go be a guest on
that show yeah
like they say oh well you get publicity out of it that's what they always say
about everything
we're paying you an exposure right but yeah these people are exposed they are
they don't have health
care that's the people exposed they're in the elements yeah you think you think
writing 336 episodes
of this show yeah what even is this show they get like snooki and someone else
to they get snooki and
then they commandeer some brother out there right and uh you know it's usually
like somebody that
knocked up a kardashian or something or at least came near one and they get
them to um right to do to
to to literally look at videos of people who are breaking their necks right
doing different stunts
gotcha and then and make fun of them they say that right okay well again i chanel
west coast is on it
she's actually really funny yeah she's really funny i just you know i'm i'm
never a person for extremes
but i do believe in this rare instance it just bargaining power being what it
is it just if you
have them it makes it a lot easier yeah yeah i agree just throwing it out if
you have them and it
unders like like think about the movie seven great movie seven great movie now
the reason that everybody
was so uh wound up in seven is because there's there's a serial killer who just
kept like leaving
little notes yeah you know communicating with the cops making phone calls yeah
gossipy kind of gossipy
kind of guy but he didn't show up in the um you know like the office building
you know what i mean
what he was able to do is really capture people's attention by by actually
going like hey i got the i
i'm i'm i got the thing i got the guy so the reality is what they need to do is
just in a nice way
uh kidnap him yeah i think commandeering is the term we like to use that's
correct
commandeering someone commandeering someone yeah for the purposes of a
negotiate contract negotiation
is great yeah well look it's getting to that point yeah i won't be because at
one point all it's
going to take is the policeman to say wait i'm not on the side of this company
no the police i'm on the
side of this person here's the brilliant thing about this the police might help
this yeah the police
how is that the police might they they might not look too hard for him right
they might not be looking
too hard for him okay because the show i believe is celebrating accidents right
yeah celebrating just
public lawlessness the cops aren't looking too hard for this guy and plus here's
the thing if they're
not paying people for the clips that i'm using i'm sure they're not right and
they're not paying guests
to go on there and i there's probably like some guy in like on a stretcher and
they just like a
producer runs up to him and they go do you mind if we use this on ridiculousness
and they're like great
yeah well you're putting a little of your saliva on this contract right yeah um
but i and i remember
them offering and they did not offer a payment on it but then who's making all
the money then
probably the network i mean the show these days it's only ridiculous it's their
own what was the deal
they had and i'm all for people making money yeah and i'm not trying to on rob
maybe it's just a
misunderstanding but no and maybe he's doing the right thing i'm not right we're
not being negative
we're just saying zoom i'm zooming out i'm zooming out that this is an overall
this i don't even care
who he is who they are yeah i'm just talking about negotiations in general
agreed one person usually
has all the leverage yeah is my point and if yeah yeah and sometimes you have
to bring a true article
to the uh yeah like to the what the writers did there we had no imagination
right which maybe
both means they shouldn't be getting paid maybe they shouldn't be getting paid
i gotta be honest
i didn't see one funny thing happening yeah that's a good point there was not
one funny thing those
writers but sometimes you got to bring a real article to the negotiation
dressed up like clowns
and they were like oh you're treating us like clowns but bloody clowns or big
like remember big that
passed away remember rob and big what if they all dressed up like big and like
mummified big like we came back
from the grave and big would be ashamed of this yes big would be ashamed of the
way we're being treated
kind of like a christmas story like a christmas carol r.i.p big too man big so
if they also our
our thing is telling the writers to do blackface well i well i'd go sure but i
i'm just saying at this
point at this point you're desperate affirmative action desperate matters yeah
now i get it now a black
writer you get they call rob dude they go listen listen to this the writers are
mad they're in the lobby of the
building here's here's where they up rob they're all in blackface you're off
the hook you're actually
or you don't have to pay any of them or hollywood's so scared of everything
like we better pay these
black writers right now that's right that's the truth that's a good point hollywood
would be like
the last thing we want to do is upset the black community that's right yeah
they come in if i yeah
if i were black i would just sue everybody in hollywood that's true to be
honest with you
that's a good point to be honest with you sta