While the writers remain on strike, The Daily Show and The Colbert Report have not been airing episodes, which is why I have been so much more productive these past two weeks. However, some of the striking writers themselves have produced an even-lower-budget-than-the-already-low-budget-Daily-Show Daily Show spoof which, in the same style of Jon Stewart, looks at the irony of the media companies NOT wanting to pay their writers, but who ARE trying to sue the pants off of YouTube and other people posting clips of their content online for incredibly inane sums of restitution. Actual Daily Show correspondent John Oliver also cameos in this spoof.

Hopefully the strike will be settled soon with negotiations that are favorable to the writers, but knowing the self-serving, uncontrollable greed past actions of the media companies, it may last awhile.

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