# Daily Show and Colbert Report coming back Jan 7 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 21, 2007, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daily-show-and-colbert-report-coming-back-jan-7/430841 "2007-12-21T17:04:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Sam\_Lowry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e95f7d/32.png) [@Sam\_Lowry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Lowry)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2007, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daily-show-and-colbert-report-coming-back-jan-7/430841/1 "2007-12-21T17:04:16Z")
In [this Newsweek article](http://www.newsweek.com/id/67069/page/1), it says that the Daily Show and the Colbert Report will be coming back January 7 without the striking writers. It doesn’t say how the shows will be different, and I’m sure something could still change before January 7, but I still thought it was exciting news. The shows obviously won’t be as good without the writers, but it’s still better than nothing in my mind. Forgive me if this news was already posted and I just missed it. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2007, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daily-show-and-colbert-report-coming-back-jan-7/430841/2 "2007-12-21T18:54:12Z")
Thank the Lord! It must be killing those guys to not be on air before Iowa. ---
**Author:** ![Malodorous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e47774/32.png) [@Malodorous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malodorous)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2007, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daily-show-and-colbert-report-coming-back-jan-7/430841/3 "2007-12-21T19:13:00Z")
Wouldn’t the Daily Show without jokes just be real news? ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Lowry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e95f7d/32.png) [@Sam\_Lowry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Lowry)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2007, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daily-show-and-colbert-report-coming-back-jan-7/430841/4 "2007-12-21T20:30:53Z")
[QUOTE=Malodorous] Wouldn’t the Daily Show without jokes just be real news? [/QUOTE] According to [the AVClub](http://www.avclub.com/content/newswire/friday_buzzkills_very_special): > [@](#): > > Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert have announced that The Daily Show and The Colbert Report will be returning on January 7! It’s a Christmas mirac—what? Oh, they’re returning without writers? And “trademark features like Stewart’s ‘Headlines’ and Colbert’s ‘The Word’ will obviously have to take a break,” and the shows will “rely heavily on pretaped segments from the field” and will probably “rerun old, pre-strike pieces”? And episodes will stretch interviews through two commercial breaks, maybe even adding additional guests and musical performances? Oh boy! This is just like waking up Christmas morning to find Santa brought you an Intendo We. So it obviously won’t be top notch episodes until the writers come back, but it’s better than watching the local news or Leno. ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Some\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ad7895/32.png) [@Just\_Some\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Some_Guy)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2007, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daily-show-and-colbert-report-coming-back-jan-7/430841/5 "2007-12-21T20:38:56Z")
Sigh. I kind of wish they’d just wait it out but I suppose they need to pay the rest of the staff. ---
**Author:** ![Malodorous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e47774/32.png) [@Malodorous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malodorous)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2007, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/daily-show-and-colbert-report-coming-back-jan-7/430841/6 "2007-12-21T23:08:26Z")
Might be sort of interesting to watch Stewart try some longer interviews, he has interesting guests but between the need to make a few jokes and the fact that even the longer interviews are less then ten minutes, they don’t really have time to do more then maybe try to get the general jist of their book/movie/presidential campaign across to the audience. Of course, I’d rather just have jokes, but whatcha gonna do.