A blog about television by TIME’s TV critic James Poniewozik.

Strike Watch: A Picture Is Worth Somewhat Less Than a Thousand Words

You may have already seen the Speechless Hollywood series of videos, produced in support of the writers' strike, in which celebrity actors demonstrate the dangers of working without a script:

The message: Actors are nothing without the words that writers put in their mouths. The meta-message: You will look at anything if it has a famous person in it. And it was a brilliant idea, oh, two dozen videos or so ago. But once you've gone to the well of having Deserate Housewives actresses make Miss Othmar noises--

--how far down the scale of celebrity can you go? The ingenious Late Show Writers on Strike have answered the question (link via TV Barn):

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