Jon Stewart
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The Oprah effect: Winners and losers...will have a similar adjustment. Cable is great at building some stars such as Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, but those who move there from broadcast face smaller audiences and diminished limelight. Of course, after a quarter of a... In this article: King World, News Corp, Sony, Ted Koppel, Oprah Winfrey, Howard Stern, and Zeitgeist |
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Centre Daily Times | October 27, 2009
TV Tidbits: Gervais to host Golden Globes
...trouble with Holocaust films: There's no gag reel on the DVD." Gervais will no doubt get a little help from his friends, such as Steve Carell, Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert. In fact, we expect most of the evening to play like a comedy...
In this article: Ricky Gervais, Jason Mesnick, Golden Globes, Kate Winslet, The Bachelor, Judaism, New York Observer, DVD, and Jared Kushner
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Huffington Post | October 28, 2009
Steven Colbert Mocks Bush's Motivational Speaker Debut (VIDEO)
...our media monitoring project here.] Hard on the heels of Daily Show host Jon Stewart's report on President George W. Bush's debut as America's Next Top $20-And-Under Motivational Orator was Stephen Colbert's own, acid-laced take on the ...
In this article: Stephen Colbert, George W. Bush, Daily Show, Louisiana Superdome, Hurricane Katrina, Twitter, and Fort Worth, Texas
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Centre Daily Times | October 24, 2009
The state of the late: With Leno off Tonight,' is there a new king of the night?
...list.) The most stable part of late night has been the lowlands, where Kimmel, Stewart, Stephen Colbert, Charlie Rose and Chelsea Handler (look, a woman!) continue to draw smaller but still lucrative audiences. Hoping to join...
In this article: Jay Leno, Dave, Conan O'Brien, David Letterman, Jimmy Fallon, George Lopez, Craig Ferguson, Jimmy Kimmel, and The Jay Leno Show
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A.V. Club RSS Feeds | November 10, 2009
TV: Feature:The best late-night comedy/talk shows of the '00s
...aided by recurring gags, a breakneck pace, and the shaggy wit of host Joel McHale, who scores because, like Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, he projects a point of view much sharper than just "everything's a joke. " The clips on The Soup are...
In this article: David Letterman, Dave Chappelle, Chappelle's Show, Stephen Colbert, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, Conan O'Brien, Sacha Baron Cohen, and The Soup
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New York Post | October 19, 2009
Ray Romano sinks to new low
...audience is in cahoots (accent on hoots) with those who emit "Woo!" in response to anything said by Jon Stewart, David Letterman, Jay Leno, Jimmy Kimmel, Stephen Colbert and Conan O'Brien and the cast of "Saturday Night Live. " Not...
In this article: Ray Romano, World Series, TBS, David Letterman, Apple pie, TNT, National League, and Norman Rockwell
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Huffington Post | November 03, 2009
Greg Mitchell: Obama Won Last Year Only Because Stephen Colbert Dropped Out!
...of the "Colbert/Stewart 2008" bumper stickers that have circulated for awhile and cut out the Stewart part, saying that he might replace Jon Stewart as a possible vice president with someone named "Huckabee" or even "Putin." To finance his...
In this article: Stephen Colbert, Barack Obama, South Carolina, John Edwards, Newt Gingrich, Joe Biden, Bill Richardson, Rudy Giuliani, and Mike Huckabee
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Chicago Tribune | October 10, 2009
Stephen Colbert's naming fetish
...one of the things fans like best about the show. "Because Stephen's a character on TV, versus Jon (Stewart) playing himself, it allows him to create all these layers of who he is," she said. "Stephen has created in a sense a lot of games for...
In this article: Stephen Colbert, The Colbert Report, Ice cream, International Space Station, Comedy Central, and Daily Show
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PR Newswire | October 01, 2009
Photos: Compete Releases Top TV Sites for August Heading into Fall's Primetime Lineup
...by TV.Yahoo.com (8.9 million UVs) and MTV (5.5 million UVs). Among the fastest growing television sites, Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert were found competing for online fans. Stewart's thedailyshow.com grew by 109 percent month-over-month...
In this article: Kantar Group, Food Network, Trademark, Stephen Colbert, Boston, Verizon Wireless, MTV, and Chrysler
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Salon | August 10, 2009
Men behaving badly aren't funny anymore
...Jones, thought the problem was that the skit wasn't funny. "Had Stephen Colbert or Jon Stewart unleashed a Mad Bitch/Hillary joke it would have come and gone without backlash. " Salon's King Kaufman agreed that the idiocy of the skit was...
In this article: Dana Milbank, Hillary Clinton, Jack Shafer, Sarah Palin, E mail, Clydesdales, Talking Points Memo, Castor oil, and AlterNet
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Jonathan "Jon" Stewart (born Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz on November 28, 1962) is an American political satirist, writer, television host, actor and stand-up comedian. He is best known as the host of The Daily Show, a satirical news program airing on Comedy Central.
Stewart started as a stand-up comedian but later branched out to television, hosting Short Attention Span Theater for Comedy Central. He went on to host his own show on MTV, called The Jon Stewart Show, and then hosted another show on MTV called You Wrote It, You Watch It. He has also had several film roles as an actor. Stewart became the host of The Daily Show on Comedy Central in early 1999. He is also a writer and co-producer of the show. After Stewart joined, The Daily Show steadily gained popularity and critical acclaim leading to his first Emmy Award in 2001.
Stewart himself has also gained significant acclaim among some viewers as an acerbic satirical critic of the Bush administration and of personality-driven media shows, in particular the coverage of the U.S. news media networks CNN, Fox News Channel, and MSNBC. Critics say Stewart benefits from a double standard: he critiques other news shows from the safe, removed position of his "fake news" desk. Stewart himself agrees, countering that neither his show nor his channel purports to be anything other than satire and comedy. In spite of its self-professed entertainment mandate, The Daily Show has been nominated for a number of news and journalism awards. Stewart hosted the 78th Academy Awards and the 80th Academy Awards. He is the co-author of America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction, which was one of the best-selling books in the U.S in 2004.
- Name At Birth:
- Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz
- Birth Date:
- November 28, 1962
- Birthplace:
- New York City, New York, U.S.
- Nationality:
- American
- Spouse:
- Tracey Stewart (née McShane)
- University Attended:
- William & Mary
- Grammys:
- Best Comedy Album
- Years Active:
- 1987–present
- Influenced By:
- George Carlin, Woody Allen, Lenny Bruce, David Letterman, Steve Martin
- Influenced:
- Stephen Colbert
- Subject:
- Mass media/news media/Media criticism, American politics, current events, religion, Jewish culture, race relations, human sexuality, self-deprecation
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