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?