Followups on Colbert, Actors Fund

by Brian McKim & Traci Skene on October 26th, 2007

The Politico has a somewhat serious and far more detailed analysis of any possible pitfalls that the candidacy of Stephen Colbert might encounter here.

“His best bet is to avoid flagrancy,” Bauer wrote on his blog. “It appears that Colbert will flirt with violating the law,” he wrote, “but since he has hired Wiley Rein, he seems also prepared to keep to the legal side of the line — mostly. If he just walks the line from time to time — as visible as the line can be — regulators will have little appetite for challenging Colbert.”

And, according to FOS Sean L. McCarthy, the turnout at the NYC informational meeting on the Actors Fund.

Friedman wonders, though, how exactly the Actors Fund should define a professional comedian, and asked club owners and comedians “to get a dialogue going” to figure out what definition works best — whether it’s reaching a specific income level over the past few years from working comedy gigs, or whether it’s what percentage of your income comes from comedy, some combination of the two, or even, as some club owners in the room suggested, “vouching” for the comic when they request Actors Fund services.

Read the whole thing.

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