So, you might be hearing that the Democratic party has voted to keep Stephen Colbert off the ballots in South Carolina. But it might get even worse for him very soon: His Comedy Central show could be in jeopardy, too!

With a TV writers’ strike looming, his program would be one of the first to go off the air, since it relies on fresh material each day. Experts say there’s no way the show could function if its writers stop working.

Unless Colbert is willing to put on his dancing shoes, that is. Notes a commenter on Zap2It: “I recall a 1988 episode of MOONLIGHTING, where David (Bruce Willis) and Maddie (Cybil Shepherd) filled the last 10 minutes of the show with singing and dancing because they ran out of script, as the writers were on strike! It was a classy way to make fun of a bad situation!”