Late-night comics return amid strike
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America's late-night TV comics returned to the air on Wednesday with dueling politicians, newly grown facial hair and expressions of sympathy for striking screenwriters whose labor dispute threw the shows into reruns for two months.
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Striking Hollywood writers could be back at work as early as Monday for the first time in three months if they embrace terms of a tentative contract deal that union leaders are expected to present them this weekend.
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Fans of David Letterman can expect fresh Top Ten lists next week.  Worldwide Pants, the comedian's production company, reached an interim agreement Friday with the Writers Guild of America allowing The Late Show With David Letterman to return to the ...
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NEW YORK  - Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert returned to the airwaves without their striking writers Monday with similarly in-depth but divergent explorations of the walkout that had silenced the comics for more than two months.
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The union for striking Hollywood  writers cried foul on Thursday over late-night TV comic Jay  Leno writing his own jokes for his return to the air from an  eight-week hiatus forced by the walkout.
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NBC's two late-night franchises are coming back. Will the laughs come with them?
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Late-night TV comedian David Letterman has reached a deal with the union representing striking screenwriters that will let his show return to the air next week with his writing staff, the union said on Friday.
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Fans wait outside the Ed Sullivan Theater for tickets to watch the first Late Show with David Letterman in New York on Jan. 2. (Lucas Jackson/Reuters) When Jay Leno and Conan O'Brien of NBC and Jimmy Kimmel of ABC return to their late-night television homes tonight, their guests and audience members will face picket lines of [...].
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A day after Hollywood writers voted to end a strike that crippled the television industry, broadcast networks on Wednesday began ramping up to bring sidelined comedy and drama favorites back to prime time.
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ATLANTIC CITY, NJ -- Thousands of cocktail waitresses, housekeepers, bellhops and other workers returned to their jobs today, ending a monthlong strike that hit them in the pocketbook and cost this gambling town visitors.
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Late-night TV hosts Jay Leno and  Conan O'Brien plan to cross picket lines to resume taping shows  on January 2, nearly two months after the Hollywood writers  strike forced them off the air, the NBC network said on Monday.
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Late-night TV comedian David Letterman on Wednesday kicked off the return of his show from a two-month hiatus in support of striking screenwriters, boasting his was the "only show on the air" with union-backed jokes.
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MySpace Comic Books, the comics corner of this online social network, and Meltdown Comics, a store in Los Angeles, have teamed up to commemorate the end of âY: The Last Man,â the comic book series created by Brian K. Vaughan, above, and Pia Guerra. The event, âY: The Last Party,â will be held on Friday, Feb. 8, and will benefit the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund. The organization, founded in 1986, is dedicated to the preservation of First Amendment rights for members of the comic book business. Of late the defense fund has been involved in the case of Gordon Lee, a comic book retailer in Rome, Ga., who has found himself in court over the distribution of obscene material to a minor. The material in question depicted Picasso in the nude. Mr. Vaughan, who is also a writer on ABCâs âLost,â is a firm believer in the defense fund. âItâs obviously a completely different situation from the writersâ strike, but, similarly, itâs creators taking care of their community, which I always support,â he said in a telephone interview. The $100 V.I.P. tickets have sold out, but a limited number of $25 tickets will be available the day of the event. More information:www.myspace.com/cbldf.
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Hollywood writers finally returned  to work on Wednesday with a brighter future in new media but  facing uncertainty about whether their 14-week strike will cost  them lucrative TV work.
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The late-night talk show hosts are returning. But the stars are not yet ready to come out for them.
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US talk show hosts Jay Leno and David Letterman are to make a comeback despite the writers' strike.
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Two more late-night TV stars, political satirists Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert of the Comedy Central cable network, said on Thursday they will go back to work next month despite the presumed continuance of the Hollywood writers strike.