They're back, if the Comedy Central announcements are accurate. New shows start Monday evening.

Wonder how they'll get caught up on everything that's transpired since the beginning of November?

The Daily Show will probably skip any kind of Bush/Washington stuff, since that would take the equivalent of a Labor Day telethon. Whereas for The Colbert Report someone will probably just nudge Stephen and remind him it's not 1907 anymore.

This should work out nicely since PBS will be just wrapping up their broadcast of Rattle and the Berliner Philharmoniker performing Mahler's Ninth a few minutes before Jon takes the air.

Plus there's a football game on, too. The old DVR should get quite a workout.

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I'm of two minds about this. On the one hand, oh, Gods, am I glad they're back! On the other hand, my understanding is that Comedy Central is pretty much twisting their arms into going back despite their avowed support for the strike. Further, I hear getting guests will be challenging, since a lot of actors and politicians have announced that they won't cross picket lines.

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"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"

I'm happy about the Daily Show, I don't really care about Stephen Colbert - he was fine as a segment, but 30 minutes is too much for me.

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They also will have to deal with a short supply or complete lack of writers. They're writers themselves, but not the only ones on their shows.

They said they're making drastic changes in format because of these things; the shows will not be the same shows that the fans are fans of.

I watch "The Word" and change the channel, myself.

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"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"

"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"

It took me a while, I admit, to get into Colbert's rythm. But what he does is very difficult when done well, creating reducto ad absurdum proofs on a regular basis.

I'd like to think Colbert and Stewart will be fifth columnists in this issue. We shall see.

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I watched both shows last night. I think that they were good on both sides of the coin-lack of writers, but supporting the writers at the same time.

I gave Jon Stewart five minutes to see how he handled this. He got an extension.

The colbert report last night was hilarious. it looked very extemporaneous, which was amazing considering the quality. the word and the lead in were particularly choice.

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I'm not saying that what Stewart does is easy, but basically he can do a whole episode of just showing clips of politicians' speeches and making dumbfounded faces in response. (It's what I do during 90% of the few political speeches I can't avoid watching.)

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I have a friend who wants to go to a political debate with signs with logical fallacy names printed on them and just hold them up when appropriate. However, I don't think all of Jon Stewart's audience would find that as funny as we would.

Yeah, I think they did a pretty good job. I thought the ovation for Colbert went on a little long; I think he did, too. But we'll see if they can keep it up. That's an awful lot of writing.

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"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"

"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"

I loved the comment by Jon to the Cornell professor, as he tried to figure out why the union would allow writers to go back to Leno, Conan, etc., but not The Daily Show:Meanwhile Colbert's solidarity beard beat Stewart's solidarity eyebrow by a mile.

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Reminds me of this classic.

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Illuminati's Razor-The most complicatedly evil answer is usually the most correct answer. - Fazor
"Every book is a children's book if the kid can read." - Mitch Hedberg
"Distance doesn’t matter much in space, where if you just start a thing off with the right kind of shove, sooner or later it will get where you want it to go." -Frederik Pohl, Mining the Oort

No, no, no! No writing was involved; that would be a violation of union rules.

Everything was impromptu or, at worst, extemporaneous. No writing!

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If you've ever been in the studio audience of a TV show, either live or being taped/filmed, you'll experience the input of someone who "warms up" the audience. I forget the actual term, but this person(s) essentially rehearses the audience as to what they're expected to do and gets them in the proper mood to respond properly to the show's style and content. I'm pretty sure that whole extended applause thing was part of the rehearsal, and designed to stroke comedically Stephen's two-month's-off diminished ego.

The Baltimore Sun had an interesting review of the two shows' returns.

BTW, both shows ran longer than usual, with The Daily Show clocking in at 32:00 minutes and The Colbert Report at a whopping 35:12.

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I noticed that! It hit 12am and the second interview had just started.

Also, in the re-runs today they cut out Colbert's extended applause.

And they changed the show's title to 'A Daily Show' for reasons explained in their first episode back.


Lastly, I have been to a taping of the Daily Show - years ago. It's particuarly notable because jon Stewart was out of town and the filler host was...
Stephen Colbert!

my then gf and I looked at each other after the show was over and we agreed - this guy NEEDS his own show!
Good to see Comedy Central agreed with us

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I am reminded of the story (perhaps true) of the opera singer who finally had the chance to sing at La Scala. He was, of course, thrilled.

When it came time for him to sing his aria, he gave it his all, and was disappointed that it didn't come out as well as he had hoped. However, the audience apparently liked it because they gave him a Standing O and shouted "Encore! Encore!"

So, he sang the aria again. And again the audience screamed for an encore.

After the third singing, and more shouts for an encore, he stepped forward, motioned for silence, and explained to the audience that he was deeply moved, but the opera needed to continue.

From the audience came a lone reply. "Oh, no, you don't! You'll sing it 'til you get it right!!"

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that's how I feel.



I thought Jon did fine and am happy shows are going back on. Not to go too political, but I don't care what the Union wants.

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That's what the studios are counting on. If you actually look at what the writers want, it's completely reasonable.

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"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"

"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"

somewhat reasonable. They get paid to write for the shows. That's their job. From there the producers can, and should decide where the shows are broadcast. After all, writers never were paid for reruns, and they're shown many more times than the original airing.

Just look at Seinfeld and Fresh Prince, they're still going, and the poor writers don't get any of that. Boo Hoo.

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