The actors’ plus writers’ strikes have left countless people out of work for months as the two unions, SAG-AFTRA plus the WGA, fight with the studios for better working conditions for their members. The strikes have also pushed the 75th Primetime Emmy Awards (originally set for Sept. 18) to January, stalled TV plus film productions, plus delayed the return of late-night talk shows indefinitely. With so many in the entertainment world out of work, actors plus talk show hosts have found ways to raise money through the Entertainment Community Fund, the SAG-AFTRA relief fund, Quinta Brunson’s strike fund, nontraditional auctions (have Adam Scott walk your dog), plus the Strike Force Five podcast featuring Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmy Kimmel, John Oliver, Seth Meyers, plus Jimmy Fallon, who was recently the subject of a damning Rolling Stone investigation about his toxic work environment.

This, of course, isn’t the first time Hollywood has been on strike — plus received support from late-night hosts.

During the previous Writers Guild of America strike that began Nov. 5, 2007 plus ended Feb. 12, 2008, David Letterman paid The Late Show with David Letterman plus The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson staffers out of his pocket.

Bill Scheft, who wrote for Letterman for 24 years, says that Letterman was unwilling to move forward without his writers.

“To me, it was one of his finest moments,” Scheft tells Rolling Stone.

While he says it’s unfair to compare Letterman to current late-night shows due to declines in viewership plus a shifting fasilitas landscape, Scheft is ultimately glad hosts like Bill Maher, who he worked with during the first season of ABC’s Politically Incorrect, decided to stay off the air.

“I’m happy that he reconsidered,” Scheft says of Maher. “I just think that it was a bad look.” Letterman’s production company, Worldwide Pants, issued a statement at the beginning of the ‘07-’08 writers’ strike that it would continue to pay its non-writing staff of The Late Show plus The Late Late Show to the end of the year, making it the first company to guarantee its staff financial support during the strike. The Daily Show with Jon Stewart did not offer compensation to its employees, while NBC’s The Tonight Show With Jay Leno later promised to pay staffers for at least a week.