defamer.com - 1/3/2008
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Sporting an intimidating beard meant to show the effects of his difficult, two-month-long, tragically scribe-deprived hibernation, David Letterman symbolically crossed a twirling line formed by his Eugene V. Debs Picket Dancers and returned to work, bolstered by the full services of his newly contracted Guild writers. We haven't seen Jay Leno's opening yet, but we're going to assume he ...
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Leno's Self-Penned Monologue Broke Strike Rules [Scabs]
Gawker —
... segment in which he spun his wedding ring on his desk for 36 seconds. Leno, though, delivered a monologue that was more or less indistinguishable in its bland hackiness from any other Tonight Show monologue of the last dozen years. Because, as he admitted part-way through, he wrote it himself. In advance. In specific violation of WGA rules! (Leno—like Letterman, like Conan, and unlike Kimmel—is a WGA member.) We caught this when we flipped over to Leno for a sec during Letterman's punchier, Made In America By Union Labor monologue, and ...
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tvdecoder.blogs.nytimes.com 1/3/2008 — David Letterman on CBS, above, averaged 4.7 million viewers on Wednesday, about a million fewer than Jay Leno on NBC. (J.P. Filo/CBS)
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Writerless shows win ratings battle —
Hollywood Reporter 1/3/2008
The late-night hosts' return seems to have helped writerless Jay Leno and Conan O'Brien more so than David Letterman and Craig Ferguson, who had the benefit Wednesday night of having their writers on staff.
Late Night is Back! —
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Late night TV has returned! Letterman and Ferguson returned to the air with writers, but Conan and Leno had to write their own material. How did each late night host fare?
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