"It is not nice to be a scab," said Jack London, addressing the Oakland Socialist Party Local in 1903. We think his words endure, but some empty people do not. Take an underfed Carson Daly, who is crossing picket lines to resume production on his late night talk show, Last Call With Carson Daly.

And because he's not content with just being dastardly, Daly is getting gimmicky, cheaply recruiting friends and family to join his scabby corps:

Knowing that he couldn’t come up with jokes himself, The Smoking Gun has obtained an email Daly sent to his friends, family and doctor New York…asking them call into a joke hotline.

You'll find the original e-mail after the jump, complete with an example of a terrible joke that would apparently make the cut and the suggestion that the message's recipients forward it to their funny friends, including Mom's "backeast family," Meat's "crew" and even "random peeps."

Sayeth London, "The scab is powerless under terrorism." Daly better hope Meat's crew is big.

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