Comedy Central announced that Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert would be the latest talk show hosts gearing up to return to the air.
“‘The Daily Show with Jon Stewart’ and ‘The Colbert Report’ will resume production on January 7 with both shows returning to air that night without their respective writing staffs,” the cable network said in a statement obtained by Access Hollywood.
As for Stewart and Colbert, though they’ll be returning to work without their writers, they themselves had little to say.
“We would like to return to work with our writers. If we cannot, we would like to express our ambivalence, but without our writers we are unable to express something as nuanced as ambivalence,” the two hosts said in a joint statement.
On Thursday, the WGA reacted to the news.
“Comedy Central forcing Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert back on the air will not give the viewers the quality shows they’ve come to expect,” the WGA statement read. “The only way to get the writing staffs back on the job is for the AMPTP companies to come back to the table prepared to negotiate a fair deal with the Writers Guild.”
On Monday it was announced that “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno” and “Late Night with Conan O’Brien” were returning to the air with new episodes on NBC, beginning January 2.
Jimmy Kimmel will also head back to the air on ABC, January 2.
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