CARSON DALY became the first late night host to cross the picket line during Hollywood's writers' strike last night when he hosted an all-new episode of Last Call on NBC. Daly, who ad-libbed his way through his opening remarks on the episode, addressed his decision to come back to work, saying he chose to so because, quote, "We ran out of repeats." He did get serious, though, when he said, quote, "If I had not been back on the air tonight, 75 members of my loyal staff and crew were going to get laid off." Daly explained that NBC gave him an ultimatum, claiming the network told him that if he didn't return to the air, the non-striking members of the show would be laid off.
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