Six Degrees: Barry Julien and Michael Brumm, walking the line

The New York Times‘ TV Decoder blog brings us more news for the East coast picket crew:

Strike News: ‘Daily Show’ Plans (Beyond Playing Guitar Hero)
By Brian Stelter

Barry Julien, Michael Brumm - Andy Kropa/AP
Television writers, from left, Barry Julien and Mike Brumm, writers for “The Colbert Report,” and Bill Scheff, right, a writer for “The Late Show with David Letterman,” joins a Writers Guild of America picket line outside News Corporation headquarters on Friday. (Andy Kropa/AP)

Comedy Central has scheduled three weeks of “theme week” repeats for “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart” and “The Colbert Report” with Stephen Colbert, as the writers for both shows conclude their first week on the picket lines.

At the headquarters for “The Colbert Report” in New York, production staff members who are not in the writers’ guild spent time this week playing the video game Guitar Hero and having a bake-off, according to a staffer who asked not to be identified.

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  1. Heather says:

    Guitar Hero and a bake-off? Amazing.

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  2. Gaia Faye says:

    Guitar Hero? Sounds like my kinda job.

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  3. OnYouthfulCynicism says:

    Man, I wish I could go to their parties. They’re more exciting than my college dorm (seriously).

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  4. TruthPower says:

    I wanna work for the Report now.

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  5. C says:

    I want to bake for the Report.

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  6. Lisa says:

    Here, here!

    Knowing how much Stephen loves an audience, I can only imagine how stir-crazy he must be going right now.

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