Truthiness and justice for none!

JON STEWART and STEPHEN COLBERT will be back with more fake news on January 7th, albeit without the help of their writing staffs. Comedy Central announced yesterday that The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and The Colbert Report will return on that date, following a hiatus brought on by the seven-week-old writers' strike.

Stewart and Colbert said in a joint statement, quote, "We would like to return to work with our writers. If we cannot, we would like to express our ambivalence, but without our writers we are unable to express something as nuanced as ambivalence."

The Writers Guild of America didn't show as much humor in its own statement, saying, quote, "Comedy Central forcing Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert back on the air will not give the viewers the quality shows they've come to expect."

Carson Daly is a scab!

CARSON DALY plans to defy the writer's strike and resume production of his late night talk show. Daly is not a member of the Writer's Guild of America, but had joined ranks with other late night hosts and chose to air repeats rather than tape new shows without striking writers.

An NBC spokesperson says Last Call With Carson Daly will begin taping new shows in Burbank for airing next week. It's not clear when the first new show will air or what guests will appear.No word on what effect Daly's decision will have on NBC's other late night shows -- The Tonight Show With Jay Leno and Late Night With Conan O'Brien. Those shows, along with ABC's Jimmy Kimmel Live, CBS' Late Show With David Letterman and Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson, continue to air reruns, although there were recent rumors of "back-door talks between the shows' producers about returning to the air before the strike ends. Comedy Central's late night shows -- The Daily Show With Jon Stewart and The Colbert Report -- have also been in reruns.