Stewart, Colbert returning to the air (Strikebreaking Scabs)

Yahoo ^ | Dec 20, 2007 | n/a

[tlb]

NEW YORK - "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" and "The Colbert Report" will resume production on Jan. 7 without their striking writers, the Comedy Central network announced Thursday.

"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.

[tlb]

Can't have primaries without Stewart and Colbert

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

Who?

[aynrandfreak]

Even for no-good liberals, that’s pretty funny!

[impimp1]

What’s wrong with scabbing? Unions should be busted anyway.

[Rembrandt]

Typical liberals - support the Democratz til it starts to hurt YOUR wallet.

[badpacifist]

Hey democrat supporting union bellyachers will forget and forgive these weenises in no time.

[MplsSteve]

I have a sense of humor. I really do.

But for some reason, I just don’t find Stephen Colbert to be funny.

Am I the only one - or do other Freepers feel this way too?

[Darkwolf377]

One of my best friends when we were teens was a loudmouthed democrat whose parents had loads of money. He was always going on about how evil Republicans were, how the dems were the party of the working man, and he was infatuated with JFK. He belittled me whenever I mentioned facts I'd read about Reagan, about conservative ideas. He mocked me for not bashing the "party of rich white men." (He is a white man.)

The first time we ever encountered a picket line, I didn't cross it. He did so without a second thought, saying he shouldn't be inconvenienced. (He wanted a new tie.)

Today, I work with kids with mental and emotional handicaps. He works for a pharmaceutical company, has a big shiny new car,* and is more liberal than ever.

The liberal mindset in action.

(*I'm not against money or cars or pharmaceutical whatever. HE, on the other hand, is always complaining about rich Republicans, and loves Michael Moore.)

[ConservativeMind]

Who are they to not support their liberal union friends? They’d be the first to wisecrack that Republicans had it in for unions.

It looks like they will never be able to complain about Republicans on union issues ever again.

Not a bad trade-off, I guess. I guess “evil money” means much more to liberals than they can usually admit.

[bahblahbah]

I don’t have cable anymore and I realized that those guys weren’t getting much linkage on sites like newsbusters and hotair. I wish they would join the strikers.

[altura]

You’re not the only one.

[EDINVA]

I’m in your camp

[OCC]

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."

I wonder who wrote that statement and were they fairly compensated.

[GATOR NAVY]

For me it’s like a 10:1 ratio of non-humorous to humorous-not worth the effort of sitting through the garbage for the occasional laugh.

[Khepri]

Colbert is a mocking jackass........imho

[Duke Nukum]

I kind of like Colbert’s fake conservative personality.

[hunter112]

The writers are oblivious to the fact that 1) There are open nominations in both parties for the first time that television has existed, 2) Hollywood absolutely depends on late night television to flog movies, 3) There are far more means of entertaining oneself besides network TV -namely cheap rentals, large libraries of movies from free sources (libraries and friends), the Internet, etc., 4) The idea of 'residuals' is left over from the days when a few major studios controlled the entire entertainment industry, and it is no longer valid.

May the writers' strike produce the strikebreaking that destroys the unions in the so-called creative fields!

[highlander_UW]

What’s wrong with scabbing? Unions should be busted anyway.

There was a time when unions did some good...that was quite some time ago, however. That being said, I think the writers have some validity in their complaint...and I equally think it's fair for the networks to hire people to do the unfilled job.

[businessprofessor]

Three cheers for the scabs! I hope that the writers cartel is busted. Cartels, espicially government sanctioned cartels, are always bad news for consumers with high prices and limited choices.

[Global2010]

Agree same for Jon Stewart.

Add that lil pip sqeak Bill Mauher (sic) and Joy Bayher (sic).