Battle of the television hosts

With the Writer’s Strike finally coming to an end, we Americans as viewers were left with several scarring experiences resulting from many daily show host’s lack of a script writer’s touch. Remember when David Letterman shaved his grizzly beard on national television?

However, it seems that three of these T.V. show hosts have prospered and risen far above the entertainment success possible when professional scriptwriters are involved. I was never more thankful for the otherwise terrible Writer’s Strike when The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart, The Colbert Report’s Steven Colbert, and Late Night’s Conan O’Brien engaged in a comedic multiple episode-long battle over who created Mike Huckabee.

The hilarious dissidence between the television show hosts first began when Colbert boldly claimed on his show that he alone was responsible for creating presidential contender Mike Huckabee’s campaign. O’Brien, outraged by Colbert’s statement, countered Colbert by announcing that he, O’Brien, was actually the creator of Mike Huckabee because he created Colbert’s career and therefore created Huckabee. Stewart then jumped in the arena by announcing that he was the creator of O’Brien, which makes him the creator of Colbert, which therefore leads him to be the true creator of Mike Huckabee.

To sum things, up the battle became personal (Stewart was taunted for his overuse of Jewish jokes) and eventually led to each of the hosts being thrown down stairs and Colbert and O’Brien stabbing Stewart with ice skates.

I don’t understand why so many have used this elaborate collaborative skit between T.V. hosts as a desperate cry for the end of the Writer’s Strike. Despite the terrible acting, I thought it was one of the funnier moments of their television shows. But what really made it most enjoyable was seeing that Stewart, Colbert, and O’Brien were having the most fun they’ve probably ever had working on their shows. I wish more then anything that I had been in that audience.