According to Deadline Hollywood Daily, Late Show host David Letterman is paying his entire staff during the WGA strike despite the show being off the air. Here’s the kicker, Dave is paying them out of his own pocket. CBS (and NBC) have stopped paying their entire staffs due to the writer’s strike, in order to put pressure on the writers to come back. Those writer’s should watch out once the violence starts, I hear gaffers are killer at knife fights.

In all seriousness though, this is the type of awesome, noble and just badass act that puts Dave above the rest late-night hosts. Once this strike is over, writers are going to be lining to work for The Late Show. Then again, they probably already are.

For more interesting reading on the WGA strike, the LA Times has a good day-by-day tracker of news and updates.

Oh, and What Would Tyler Do? has the best response to Dave’s kindness:

Dave Letterman is the fuckin coolest. I like to think I would kind of do the same thing, that I would do my part to help the people who worked for me, but then it would occur to me - fuck those homos. And then I'd roll around on the waterbed and throw a pile of hundreds at the naked teen models.

Word.