If Leno and Letterman can do it, so can Stewart and Colbert. The late-night comedy shows are the bread and butter of the networks and, writer’s strike be damned, they are going to air no matter how lame the jokes may become. Comedy Central’s The Daily Show and Colbert Report will be returning on January 7 in an all ad-lib format. I guess now we’ll see how funny those two guys really are.
This should be entertaining.
The Daily Show Without Comedy Writers Is Like:
- A Ship Without a Crew
- A Runner Without Extra Baggage
- Seesmic
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Started: December 21, 2007
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I thought Colbert and Stewart were good liberals! Doh.
I support the writers and would add lets unionize Google as well.
It’s worked for the auto, airline and public schools in the USA, so why not Google?
Your friend and mine,
Jerry
Hey Mike & Others;
After these two posts on blognation,
http://www.techcrunch.com/2007.....-not-kept/
http://www.techcrunch.com/2007.....the-ashes/
how come you guys missed the fact that blognation has shutdown ? I do not remember seeing a post on this site ! Not adding it to techcrunch deadpool ?
Shyam
the bush administration writes for them. Come on?
Criminey! Just settle the darn thing. At least in time so BSG isn’t delayed.
damn them liberals, Go Colbert!!!. show those writers some class..
I’m leaving techcrunch soon. They are getting into something too far.
It’s not duncan’s post and this…
Something else… Faaaar worst…..
I will not say it.
I will not tell.
I will not help techcrunch improve better.
They have to do themselves. It’s just blog — Not Media company
haha Seesmic– that is clever.
I will right for them!
Aren’t both Colbert and Stewart comedians? And heck, isn’t the news always going to be there?
People will flock to this show regardless of if the jokes are funny or not. All they have to do is rip on Bush for an hour a day (M-Th) and they’ll bring in the ratings.
It’s the easiest job in town.
There is some other comedy out there if you look hard enough
http://www.voterswrite.org/
Let’s see how much they really know! lol
fakesteveballmer.blogspot.com
They should do it internet style and let the users supply jokes. I’d love to see how they put the show together. Will the editors just take videos they find funny and just stream it to John?
When are you guys going to get some writers?
I can’t wait! When the strike started I just figured that The Daily Show was written by Stewart himself so I was disappointed that the strike ended a show based on daily news. I am eager to see how this goes and cannot wait for the return of The Daily Show.
I must preface my comment to say that I do not disagree at all with the writer’s for expecting some compensation for the internet usage of their work.
That being said, I think they will have to be careful. They will have to be careful to see how far they will prolong this strike. (I do realize it is 2 sides attempting to come to 1 resolution.) I think they are, at some point, going to have to say that some is better than none. I haven’t been watching the situation closely and have not heard about specific offers going back and forth, but it seems like a lot of TV is ready to move on without them.
TV will always need writers, but what we are facing here soon is to see what can be done without them. We may find some “shining star” programs that can do just as well, if not better, without the writers. Drama TV will always need writers and cannot survive without them; however late night television and similar shows may be just fine without them.
I believe the WGA has to carefully look at the situation here and ask themselves if their stubbornness to “win” is worth the potential job loss. I am not suggesting any TV program will run completely writer-free, but they may find that less writers are necessary. In this case, no increase in royalties will help those who won’t have a job to go back to.
I also feel that both sides of this situation are not evaluating the greater effects. They themselves are not getting paid, set staff isn’t getting paid, less new television, less ad spending, reduction in consumer spending. It all adds to already softening economic conditions.
Is it all worth it?
This should be interesting.
The problem is that both Colbert and Stewert are in good standing with the WGA. Ellen can write her own jokes. They can’t, at least until the strike is over.
Now the true talent might come out of this. We can see how good they are without the writers now.
In my opinion, the writers are just like Lane Hardwell. They want to be paid for their work in perpetuity. That’s not the way that art works on the Internet. On the Internet, art must be given away in exchange for valuable links, which can be converted to new writing assignments. I blogged about this many times over the last year.
That’s the decision that I made and I’ve made big money this year from my photography. I mean, we are talking thousands and thousands of dollars. Enough for several mortgage payments! Almost. It only took me all year. Good thing I’ve still got a real job, heh heh. Since I made that decision to give away my work, that should be valid for everyone else, too.
Am I alone in noticing that both shows mock “heartless conservatives” and yet these fine liberal comedians –when losing their own money– take a dump on their union writers? Where is support for labor? The working man?
I think we have a fundamental question to answer.
Are people paid for work, or are they paid to work?
Similar to the Lane Hardwell issue, it seems people more and more want to be paid for their work, not paid to work. For a photographer, do they want to be paid to photograph certain events such as weddings or corporate events or do they want to be paid for the individual photographs they take?
As a freelance worker, you are dependent on being paid for work, but as an employee you are paid to work. Should they be paid twice (once for their time, once for their product)? Possibly, but we have to decide which is most beneficial to all parties involved.
“Show Must Go On” still applies. Same TV, different day. No liberal/conservative issues are at stake if they restart the shows’ engines in January.
Jon and Steven can pull it off. It’s their mannerisms and wit, not their specific jokes that keep me watching. Let’s get this writers strike done with already though. I don’t watch much TV and even I am getting bothered.
I guess all those speeches at awards shows about how grateful they were for their writers is a crock. I love the irony of it.
techguy: Stewart and Colbert are being forced back to work under threat of being sued for breach of contract by Viacom, the company that owns Comedy Central. Even the WGA realizes this and isn’t planning any demonstrations/actions to target these productions.
I’m giving credit to folks at xkcd for helping Jon et al. realize that they were needed http://xkcd.com/360/
Or maybe they planned on coming back all along and were just waiting for Jon to be freed.
In the age of open competition and open market, writers guild is a dinosaur refusing to adapt to new styles of generating revenues
Ujwal from Nepal.
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