John Stewart returned to the air tonight. His first act was to show off his solidarity “unibrow”, then he moved right into talking about the Writer’s Strike, even going so far as to change the name of the program. THE Daily Show with John Stewart is a show produced with writer’s field correspondents and such - so until the strike is over, the show will be called A Daily Show with John Stewart - because it just isn’t the same program.

John went on to briefly touch on the primaries, then John went on to explain, in detail, what exactly is going on with this whole Writer’s Strike thing. What’s interesting and this is that the show did appear to be scripted. I don’t know if it was or not, but if so, don’t you think John will be getting trouble the same way Leno has been?

Ron Seeber, a labor specialist, was the guest host tonight, he began by talking about how the WGA didn’t want him to appear on the show. One thing that John Stewart is damn good at is pointing out both sides, and that is done very well here. Stewart is clearly on the side of the writers (as are most sane people), but they did a great job of pointing out what is going on, and the real reason why these things haven’t been settled - EGO.

There is clearly a bit of animosity towards the WGA on Stewart’s part though, as he goes out of his way to take several jabs at the WGA for not working out a deal with him for the Daily Show, when he is clearly willing to do whatever they want. The entire second half of the interview with Seeber is a shot at the WGA for not working a deal with The Daly Show. I’ll be interested to see how that is received on the web over the next few days.

Colbert also returned to the airwaves tonight with guest Andrew Sullivan.