Television Review: Back, but not winging it
IN honor of the two-month-long writers strike, I have decided to give the dozen or so scribes I normally work with to produce my stories the day off. I am writing this review without writers.
Except, wait a second, I am a writer. Hmmmm.
This is the same conundrum faced, or posed, depending on how you look at it, by the return of late-night hosts Jay Leno, Conan O'Brien, Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert. Leno, O'Brien and Stewart have made points of publicly supporting the strike, in which they participated for two months, and yet there they all are, crossing picket lines and writing for television and, presumably, getting paid for it. (Colbert, a guild member, argued deadpan that he has long been anti-labor and anti-union, so his reappearance, along with Stewart's, on Comedy Central on Monday was totally consistent.)
Mary McNamara / Television critic
