I miss the Daily Show and Colbert Report
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Could those writers just stop with this strike already? I miss my (almost) daily dose of humor.
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now I go to bed annoyed
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Both late-night shows were shuttered after the Hollywood writers strike began seven weeks ago.
The comedy duo are the latest late-night hosts to announce their return to the air while the ongoing writers strike continues to devastate much television and film production.
Jay Leno, Conan O'Brien and Jimmy Kimmel have all recently said that they will resume their programs on January 2 with or without their writing staffs.
On Friday, leaders of striking television writers plan to meet with David Letterman's production company in an attempt to reach a separate deal that could return the "Late Show" to the air with its writing staff.
But "The Daily Show" and "The Colbert Report" rely far more on scripted material than those shows, which are more centered around interviews and musical guests.
In a joint statement, Stewart and Colbert said: "We would like to return to work with our writers. If we cannot, we would like to express our ambivalence, but without our writers we are unable to express something as nuanced as ambivalence."
A spokesman for Comedy Central said neither the network, Stewart nor Colbert would have any further comment. A call to the Writers Guild of America was not immediately returned late Thursday.
Source: cnn.com
"The leads are weak? Fuckin' leads are weak? You're Weak! I've Been in this business 15 years"
"What's your name?"
"FUCK YOU! THAT"S MY NAME!"
Those guys are nobody without their writers.
They couldn't joke their way out of a paper bag.
Hopefully people will start talking to each other or (heaven forbid!) their children, rather than parking their lazy butts in front of the tv.
And I don't feel right when you're gone away
Stewart has done standup. It might be more interviews. I think Letterman is coming back next week. They're doing it for the other staff members who let go.
Letterman is returning because he arranged a side deal for his writers to return. Stewart, Colbert, and O'brien can all suck it for pulling this bullshit manuever! Oh and Stewart is a great stand up comic, but a stand up comic does not on their own, write a genius show like the Daily Show on their own.
"The leads are weak? Fuckin' leads are weak? You're Weak! I've Been in this business 15 years"
"What's your name?"
"FUCK YOU! THAT"S MY NAME!"
All I'm saying is that if Letterman has the pull to do the RIGHT thing, so do two of the most popular figures on Comedy Central along with NBC's cash cow who soon will be taking over the Tonight Show. Hopefully this will motivate them to do the same.
"The leads are weak? Fuckin' leads are weak? You're Weak! I've Been in this business 15 years"
"What's your name?"
"FUCK YOU! THAT"S MY NAME!"
They don't have the pull?? Have either Colbert or Stewart tell their bosses they aren't performing unless they get a side deal for the writers and see how much pull they have. Do you honestly think Comedy Central would try and replace either Colbert or Stewart? Or worse, try and do the show without them? They are the show! Have them try to either replace or just remove them and see how fast the viewing public (aka demographic that keeps the advertising $ flowing in) revolt and then see where they are. Didn't both Cobert and Stewart on their last show say they would support the writers? I guess support only lasts until the bigwigs start complaining? All three of them (Colbert,Stewart, and O'brien) need to grow a pair (seeing how Leno's were long ago chewed off by Helen Kushnick) and take care of their writers.
"The leads are weak? Fuckin' leads are weak? You're Weak! I've Been in this business 15 years"
"What's your name?"
"FUCK YOU! THAT"S MY NAME!"
Now I don't know what the hell is going on with the world!
LOL!
"The leads are weak? Fuckin' leads are weak? You're Weak! I've Been in this business 15 years"
"What's your name?"
"FUCK YOU! THAT"S MY NAME!"
Agree to disagree. But Kilborn never had the audience that Stewart has.
"The leads are weak? Fuckin' leads are weak? You're Weak! I've Been in this business 15 years"
"What's your name?"
"FUCK YOU! THAT"S MY NAME!"
But what do I know...the only things I like on the tv are cooking shows.
And I don't feel right when you're gone away
Letterman has the pull because the Late Show and Craig Ferguson are owned by Worldwide Pants, not CBS. The other shows are owned by their networks and don't have the ability to do what Letterman did. However, with Letterman doing what he did it proves it can be done and will be used as a model in negotiations.