Missing some of your favorite political jokes because of the writers' strike? The striking writers of "The Daily Show With Jon Stewart,""The Colbert Report" and "The West Wing" debuted some fresh ones Wednesday as the Writers Guild of America, East met with members of Congress in an attempt to raise awareness about the ongoing strike. Using the format of a fake political debate between the writers and the movie studios, moderated by former White House spokeswoman Dee Dee Myers, the writers got in a couple of zingers on the gathered lawmakers. The fake debate even had its own fake pink T-shirted protester disrupting the event, whose disruption was disrupted by a fake green T-shirted protester.
See "Striking writers crack jokes in Congress while raising awareness", Jesse J. Holland, San Francisco Chronicle, January 22, 2008