which is actually a pretty amazing feet, what with all the Daily Shows graphics and such, to think none of it was doen, with no one writing anything down, at any stage.Also, as they pointed out, the production staff (people besides writers) weren't getting paid and had nothing to benefit from the strike. I believe they had some pretty set rules where they could discuss general subjects to talk about, but they couldn't write down a single line of his monologue.