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Amid the second week of the Writers Guild strike, Fox News showbiz reporter Bill McCuddy tells Page Six a cute story about his past as a SCAB

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Carson's Secret DealDURING the last writers' strike in 1988, Fox News entertainment guy Bill McCuddy wrote for Johnny Carson. The late-night king famously crossed the writers' picket lines saying he would pen his own material. But McCuddy and other comics sent Carson lines, through agents who secretly put out the word that non-union scribes could send in pithy punch lines. "He came out that first