Not sure whether to dance or weep, but they're baack either way
Not sure whether to dance or weep, but they're baack either way
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#1Not sure whether to dance or weep, but they're baack either way
Posted: 12/21/07 at 1:57pm
NEW YORK (AP) -- "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" and "The Colbert Report" will resume production on January 7 without their striking writers, the Comedy Central network announced Thursday.
Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart presented at last year's Emmy Awards show.
Both late-night shows were shuttered after the Hollywood writers strike began seven weeks ago.
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.
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Updated On: 12/21/07 at 01:57 PM
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