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Thursday, December 20, 2007

Colbert to return Jan. 7

The Comedy Channel announced Thursday that Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart will both be returning to the air Jan. 7 whether the writer's strike is settled or not, reported the Associated Press. Already, Jay Leno, Conan O'Brien and Jimmy Kimmel have all said that they will resume programming Jan. 2 with or without their writers.
The AP story quotes Colbert and Stewart from a joint statement: ""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."
Though we want the show to come back, we're disappointed they're doing it without the writers. The writers are asking for something they have the right to get -- the residuals from internet and DVD use of their material.
So, if you support the strike as we do, go Strike Swag, a website set up to sell t-shirts and other things in support of the writers.
And let's get them back on the air where they belong.







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