No The Daily Show with Jon Stewart until after the primaries.
No Colbert Report.
No Letterman.
No Weekend Update.
No Leno.
No Conan.
No Kimmel.
No political satire until after in the next few months we Americans decide which two human beings will contend for the leadership of the free world.
Unless we count Tucker Carlson and Bill O'Reilly.
Perhaps inadvertently, James Nicholas Counter III, president of
http://www.amptp.org/">The Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers since its inception in 1982, has almost singlehandedly silenced political satire for the duration of the primary season. If the Writers Guild strike continues as long as previous similar labor disputes, the United States will have settled on both major parties' presidential nominees by April with no nightly political fun being made about them.
By holding resolutely to a set of positions regarding guild members' rights to compensation for newer long-tail sources of revenue for his alliance, Counter has put the
http://www.wgaeast.org/">Writers Guild of America in a position that virtually guarantees the only daily media segment sympathetic to the writers' strike, the daily comedy shows, must remain silent. How long this silence will continue is up to exactly one person, Nick Counter.
The writers clearly would rather be working this holiday season, and while the networks' news divisions have been regurgitating alliance talking points verbatim, it's clear that producers would rather be producing too this Christmas. Seasonal advertising money will never get collected, the ads unplaced. But St. Nick Counter likely plans a private holiday this year.
It's not going to be a funny election season. Thanks St. Nick!