I'm sure you'll be very aware of the TV writers' strike across the pond. I certainly am. It's the reason I haven't been able to "acquire" new episodes of The US Office since mid-frickin' November. I MISS IT. Anyway, as TV Scoop have noted recently, the various late-night talk shows have been among the worst hit, depending as they do on funny writer folk to come up with, well, pretty much everything.

The result is that, returning to work in part to safeguard the non-writing jobs of their other staff, the presenters are needing to come up with a lot more of their own material than they've probably needed to since they last did stand-up.

Conan O'Brien, in my opinion the most talented (and definitely the funniest) of the late-night lot, confronted this dearth of material by putting on a pretty darn impressive - and straight-faced - rendition of country classic "Blue Moon Of Kentucky" the other night on his show Late Night. I'd like to see Wossy try this.

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