Stewart and Colbert chat away

Associated Press

Writers Guild picketers walk in front of people lined up for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Monday in New York.

Monday night marked the return of two more late-night talk (or, at least, talk-based) shows in the midst of the ongoing writers strike. Granted, The Daily Show With Jon Stewart and The Colbert Report are 30-minute comedy shows on cable (and basic cable at that). So what would it be like with no writers, without that brain trust of Ivy League comedy writers knocking out the hilarious skits and typing up another hilarious soliloquy?

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