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Last Call's Carson Daly, who will host NBC's New Year's Eve broadcast, spoke to TIME's Rebecca Winters Keegan to explain why he became the first late-night host to return to TV during the writers' strike. He also argues that the Times Square ball-drop is TiVo-proof and talks about what happens now that user-generated content is "sort of over...
TIME: You got a lot of criticism for being the first late-night host to resume production during the writers' strike. How do you feel now that some of the other late-night hosts are returning? DALY: This strike is brutal. It's been so destructive to so many people's lives. My decision to come back was based on the ultimatum that was put in front of me to either return on December 3 or 75 of my friends, my staff and crew who have been loyal to me, were gonna get fired. That was the only thing...
...come from?" This was 1976, 30 years ago... Well, we eventually found out that it was a political issue much more than an educational one and so eventually I ran for the State Legislature and won and started fighting the battle there and every year I would move to strike funding for bilingual education and as you do that you become involved with the issue a little more, a little more and you find that you learn more about it and as you do you become more distressed... We desperately need to have things that hold us together...
...believe in Dewey's dream, the second wife who endlessly rebuffs his sexual blandishments, the trips up musical blind alleys (it's almost worth the price of admission to watch Dewey during his Bob Dylan and Beatles phases). And that says nothing about the ways inspirations for his songs strike...
CONAN O'BRIEN, late-night TV host, on his plan to resume programming on Jan. 2 after two months of honoring the Hollywood writers' strike...