Two of late-night TV stars, Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert from the Comedy Central cable network announced on Thursday that they will return with their shows next month without the writers.

“The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" and "The Colbert Report" will start their broadcast on January 7, according to statement released by the Comedy Central on Thursday.

The statement said: "We continue to hold out hope for a swift resolution to the current stalemate that will enable the shows to be complete again," Los Angeles Times reports.

The two TV stars expressed their wish to return to work along with their writers.

"If we cannot, we would like to express our ambivalence, but without our writers we are unable to express something as nuanced as ambivalence," the two said in a statement.

This announcement comes after three other comedians said this week that they will go back on air without writers.

NBC's "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" and "Late Night with Conan O'Brien" and ABC's "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" said that starting January 2 they will return with their shows without the writers if by that time nothing is settled. They will do it even it that means to cross a picket line.

The strike started November 5 and there are no signs of a settlement since December 7 when the last attempt of talks collapsed.

Still, Stewart and Colbert have to put a lot of work into it as their shows are based mainly on scripted material, as the other shows rely on interviews.

Comedy Central spokesman Tony Fox said: "It's a little bit of a trickier act for us than it is for those guys," Reuters quotes. But they are counting on the fact that Stewart did stand-up comedy and Colbert was an improvisational actor, so they seem fit for the job.

The two comedians are Writers Guild of America members, so technically they are not allowed to even write their own stuff.

Probably the two shows will mainly rely on interviews, although it is hard to get entertainers as some are refusing to cross picket lines.