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Article: Stewart, Colbert return with lots of material but no writers
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- Winnipeg Free Press
- Article date:
- January 7, 2008
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NEW YORK -- Not a moment too soon to help make sense of things, talk-show hosts Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert will be back on duty Monday, ready to mock everything in sight.
The New Hampshire presidential primary scheduled for the next day? A likely topic!
The woes of Jamie Lynn and Britney Spears? Why not?
And they surely will take aim at the Hollywood writers strike that has kept them off the air, and kept their viewers satire-starved, since Nov. 5.
But how will they carry out their mission without writers?
The returning Daily Show with Jon Stewart and Colbert Report with Stephen Colbert face a challenge even greater than that of writer-deprived Jay Leno, Conan O'Brien and Jimmy ...