Who would have guessed that a production company with a ridiculous name like World Wide Pants would be in such a plum position?

But since World Wide Pants, not CBS, owns The Late Show With David Letterman and The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, both shows are probably going to return with new episodes in January through an interim agreement brokered with the Writers Guild of America.

That means that Leno and Conan, who were already prepared to come back in January even without the support of Letterman and Ferguson, will be under even more pressure to cross the picket lines to make their goofy jokes.

And thank God. Because if we had to spend one more sleepless night reading instead of listening to inane chit-chat between Leno and someone attractive ingénue with a new movie coming out, we might have ended it.