Viacom is a monopoly and should be broken up.
This would not happen if Comedy Central was an independent company with competition.

I think we should fine Redstone a billion dollars
for anti-trust and force him to sell Comedy Central to investors. Where is Teddy Roosevelt when you need him.

No writers, no product, that simple. And so many people think writing is easy!

Actually in a way if the writers are smart they'll get together with the other related unions and create their own content (like as a coop) and put it up on a youtube like site designed so they all get compensated, and then they could prove once and for all they can get compensated and their work is worth it after all----and if they are really smart this idea would grow and grow and then the media corporations would find out they fu*ked up big time and wouldn't get ANYTHING from this new opportunity because as usual they thought big bucks and corporate power and throngs of lawyers would win with this 'we get it all' and writers go f**k yerselfs attitude. (now ya just know then the media corps are just tryin to get ALL the internet if they aren't tryin to do so already)

any attempt to compare the daily show to the garbaged spewed out by the anal cyst bolivator is beyond humorous. the daily show is entertainment that is intellectually stimulating. rush, on the other hand, produces cow pies. only those truly addicted to the crapola routinely fed to them by rushie-poo could even try to make a comparison. a pity these people are so stupid ... why i bet, some of them even watch faux and that group of liars, thieves and perverts.

maybe you should just do this if the billion dollar capitalist media companies wont let you earn a little while they earn a lot. Then again, we all know the days of free internet content is very limited, and soon these same billion dollar capitalist will be charging you for everything you put on what will be their net. Its already in the process of happening. They just have to find the right price to get congress to follow through with it.

well, thanks lads. point made. but it does show why creating a show is a collaboration. performers you are not.

if the creative people of america won over the monstrously imperious corporations it would create an extra hour of daylight in this country (to paraphrase spike milligan, writing and performing genius)
Keep them coming. Other Americans will get that this is bigger than the perceived bunch of lucky white guys making silly amounts of money.

If the corporations, already in tune with the Neo-Con agenda, could eliminate writers, they could control content.

Support your writers America.This could be a turning point.

Hope you're offering a daily fix!

Yes , Stewart is funny and probably does not need writers to get a good show done..He had on McCain on last night and evidently McCain held his own and was interestin­g...Stewar­ts show is menat to be funny, sarcastic, biting and it is, and that is how it is taken . Limbaugh , also entertainment is perceived to be more or less factual by his audience,reardless of the liberal opinion of him or his 22 million. Don't think he or his listeners consider him getting in trouble though

advocate 123, why, if Sir Laurence Olivier was so talented, did he require a Shakespeare to write his script for him? And why, if Shakespeare was so talented, did he need actors to portray the parts he wrote?

Clearly someone has "not so much brain as ear wax." Ah, writers: they make me believe in Muses.

Sumner Redstone and his ilk are canker blossoms. Poisonous bunch-back'd toads and lumps of foul deformity. Verily.

Apologies to Will.

yes, but rush spouts garbage to an audience that doesn't know better.

letterman wrote his own stuff during the last strike- i imaging stewart could as well, but why would he? he seems sympathetic to the cause of the strike, unlike so many degenereses (degeneri?)

I have a question: If these Hosts were so talented and so funny, why do they need writers?

Shouldn't they be creative enough to write their own stuff?

Rush Limbaugh has no writers and has 22 Million people listening to him in a week.

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