Will Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert have grown beards in

[babylonsister]

solidarity? New shows tonight, FYI.

[BuyingThyme]

1. Big, big ribbons, pins, and magnets.

[The_Casual_Observer]

2. They, along with Letterman look homeless.

[aquart]

11. No homeless man ever had Letterman's precise and careful barber.

[The_Casual_Observer]

12. Could have fooled me!

I guess the trick is to pay $1000 for it so has the "looks" of homeless.

[Coexist]

3. no, he grew a unibrow!

lol.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

4. Jon has a solidarity unibrow!!!!

:rofl:

[coffeenap]

5. Awww, it was fake. But, cute. nt

[Up2Late]

8. Fake? What, did he pull it off?

If so, I missed it.:shrug:

[Coexist]

6. he is ripping on viacom.

good for him.

'space reserved for clever pun'
'it's a series of tubes'



:rofl:

[Coexist]

7. okay - I will admit I was disappointed in Stewart and Colbert -

that they were going back on the air.

But this show has been an ass-kicking tribute to the striking writers.

Good on him.

[trashcanistanista]

9. Jon grew a unibrow in solidarity.

[Coexist]

10. his guest is Ron Seeber, a professor of labor relations from Cornell.

nice move.

[MadHound]

13. They're great! They're entertaining! They're great, entertaining scabs!

We like to talk up the union big around here, yet when the rubber meets the road, we don't support them. Hmmm, what does that say about us, about progressives, liberals and Dems? That we're willing to throw unions overboard if it happens to effect us? When we're missing our favorite TV show? For shame!

The Writers' Guild needs help, and we can give it to them. Hurt the corporations where they hurt, in the wallet. Don't watch the shows that are crossing the line, keep ad revenue down, and force management back to the table. What have you got to lose? A few episodes of a TV show, big whoop. Show the corporate America that there is still some spine left in not just the unions, but in all of us.

It is one easy way that you can help take America back from the corporations.

[Coexist]

14. first of all, I am not a nielson family - so they don't know I am watching,

second - if you had watched them, you would know that they were (are) a wonderful tribute to the writers.

Stephen's opening was sweet, "tonight (silence), then (silence)".

Stewart's Moment of Zen was the strking writers outside the studio.

also, Jon called his show "a Daily Show" instead of The Daily Show
and Stephen called his show the Colbert (pronounced the T) Report (pronounced the T)

[MadHound]

15. First of all, if you're hooked up to cable, TIVO or satellite,

Odds are that your viewing habits are known and tracked. Remember, that little phone line plugged into the wall? TIVO announced last fall that it was distributing it's numbers, DirecTV and Dish have been doing so for awhile now. Nielson is mostly a facade these days to keep people thinking that their viewing habits really aren't being monitored:eyes:

Second, those may have been wonderful tributes, but really, the damage is done and all Stewart and Colbert are doing is salving the conscience of both themselves and their viewers while the writers are forgotten, ignored, and in the studios' eyes, hopefully disappear.

This is a strike breaking tactic that is decades old, get a few to cross the line, and gradually slip in more and more shows and scabs, placating the public with their video fix. Do you honestly think that either Colbert, Stewart or any of the others are going to go without writers for any significant amount of time? I imagine that once all the hubbub dies down they'll start slipping scab writers back in, and pretty soon the shows will be going full bore, full tilt, and a bunch of writers will be walking the line, except it will be the unemployment line.

And all of this over a TV show or two, geez. Way to stick up for the working stiff:eyes: