Late-night talk shows began their return to the air after a five-month absence brought on by the Hollywood writers' strike, while actors completed the first day of talks that could end their own long work walk-off.
The Associated PressAudience members line up Monday outside the Ed Sullivan Theater in New York City for the first taping of The Late Show With Stephen Colbert since the conclusion of a strike by the Writers Guild of America. Late-night talk shows are back after going dark for five months during the strike. The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Colbert blew a leaping kiss to his audience, which chanted his name as he took the stage at the Ed Sullivan Theater in New York for the early evening taping of his show that airs at 11:35 p.m. ET. Fallon taped segments for his show with Matthew McConaughey and John Mayer. He then said a third guest would be Bono from U2, who played the opening of the new Sphere venue in Las Vegas over the weekend.How will the end of the writers' strike affect B.C.'s film and TV industry?A phoney Bono came out encased in a small sphere. The bit fell flat, and Fallon suggested it may take some time to shake the rust off.
"I am so happy to be back in a room with my writers, everybody. I missed my writers so much," he said. Then joked, "I will admit by lunch I was a little over it."Colbert lamented having been unable to weigh in with jokes about so much news for so many months.
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