THE DAILY SHOW & THE COLBERT REPORT – Mock Debate in D.C.

Doing what they do best – using humor to help others understand the absurdity in our everday lives – the writers of THE COLBERT REPORT and THE DAILY SHOW took the plight the of the WGA to Congress in a mock debate. THE DAILY SHOW writers Rob Kutner, Tim Carvell and Jason Ross took on the side of the WGA while Michael Brumm, Peter Grosz and Tom Purcell of THE COLBERT REPORT argued the “points” of the AMPTP.

Brilliant…just brilliant!!

Crashing out of the starting gates, the shirts argued it would cost the suits less than 1% of their total revenue to give the writers everything they wanted. For Paramount Pictures, that comes to $4.6 million, or “half the amount it takes to get Reese Witherspoon into a movie.”

“I ask you,” one writer noted, “which is more important to a movie — a script, or half of Reese Witherspoon?”

The studio suits thought for a second.

“Which half?”

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