So some shows, like late night talk shows are returning to TV, despite the writer's strike. But, if people like John Stewart, Stephan Colbert, Conan, etc. are back on TV making jokes and such, who's writing that stuff?

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Any of their staff that are not members of the WGA and are mildly amusing, I imagine.

Letterman has his whole writing staff back as he came to an individual agreement with the WGA.

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Originally posted by PoisonJam19 So some shows, like late night talk shows are returning to TV, despite the writer's strike. But, if people like John Stewart, Stephan Colbert, Conan, etc. are back on TV making jokes and such, who's writing that stuff?

Stewart said he would be paying his writers with his own checkbook. I don't know about the rest.

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Originally posted by SuspicionVandit Stewart said he would be paying his writers with his own checkbook. I don't know about the rest.

Not true.

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So maybe it would be possible for me to submit a few jokes of my own?

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All of the people you've listed have made careers out of comedy. Hell, O'Brien was a writer for SNL (I think, right?) and The Simpsons. That, plus staff members who aren't part of the WGA as Rob mentioned, would provide for at least some sort of "writing" staff at this point. They're not just a face, they can write their own jokes if they need to.

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Originally posted by RJT Not true.

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Returning to late-night television Monday for the first time since the Writers Guild of America strike forced them off the air in November, Stewart and fellow Comedy Central fake-news purveyor Stephen Colbert had to face the cameras (and the audience) without their writing staffs.

Oh, ok. I guess I was out of date.

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Originally posted by idoru All of the people you've listed have made careers out of comedy. Hell, O'Brien was a writer for SNL (I think, right?) and The Simpsons. That, plus staff members who aren't part of the WGA as Rob mentioned, would provide for at least some sort of "writing" staff at this point. They're not just a face, they can write their own jokes if they need to.

Right, but it doesn't really seem possible that they alone would be able to write a continuous series of new epsiodes, even with the help of non-writing staff.

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Originally posted by SuspicionVandit Oh, ok. I guess I was out of date.

There was a large rumor about it, however as Stewart does not own the Daily Show, he was not free to engage in negotiations to get his writers back (conversely, because Letterman and not ABC owns "The Late Show" he was able to come to his own agreement to get his writers back).

There was a rumor about Stewart paying his writers that made the rounds, but his publicist quickly denied that was happening.

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Originally posted by PoisonJam19 Right, but it doesn't really seem possible that they alone would be able to write a continuous series of new epsiodes, even with the help of non-writing staff.

Well, have you watched the latest episodes of O'Briens show? It's obvious that he's not able to provide the same amount of humor as usual, and as a result has resorted to filming random things and trying to be funny on his own. It has worked alright for him so far.

Yeah - all of the shows that have come back that I've caught have felt pretty dicey as far as quality.

The Daily Show and Colbert Report in particular have, at times, seemed to struggle.

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Originally posted by idoru Well, have you watched the latest episodes of O'Briens show? It's obvious that he's not able to provide the same amount of humor as usual, and as a result has resorted to filming random things and trying to be funny on his own. It has worked alright for him so far.

True, I guess it's a little different with the talk shows, but when I was watching the Daily Show, I noticed that the jokes were very similar to how they were when they did have writers.

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