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Jon Stewart
Stewart performing at a 2008 USO show
Birth name	Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz
Born	(1962-11-28) November 28, 1962 (age 62) New York City, New York, U.S.
Medium	Stand-up, television, film, books
Nationality	American
Alma mater	William & Mary
Years active	1987–present
Genres	Satire/political satire/news satire, observational comedy
Subject(s)	Mass media/news media/Media criticism, American politics, current events, religion, Jewish culture, race relations, human sexuality, self-deprecation
Spouse	Tracey Stewart (née McShane)
Children	Nathan Stewart, Maggie Stewart
Notable works and roles	Host of The Daily Show America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction

Jonathan "Jon" Stewart (born Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz; November 28, 1962) is an American political satirist, writer, television host, actor, media critic 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 as an acerbic satirical critic of personality-driven media shows, in particular the coverage of the US 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 and 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 US in 2004.

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WGA strike of 2007-2008

Stewart was an important factor in the unionization of the writers for Comedy Central. The Daily Show writers were the first of the Comedy Central's writers to be able to join the guild, after which other shows followed.

He supported the 2007 Writers Guild of America strike, commenting on The Daily Show episode just before the strike in a sarcastic manner about how Comedy Central had made available all of the episodes for free on their website, but without advertising, and said 'go support our advertisers'. The show went on hiatus when the strike began, like other late night talk shows. Upon Stewart's return to the show on January 7, 2008, he refused to use the title The Daily Show, stating that "The Daily Show" was the show made with all of the people responsible for the broadcast, including his writers. During the strike, he referred to his show as A Daily Show with Jon Stewart until the strike ended on February 13, 2008. Stewart, as well as several other late night talk shows, returned to TV early in January even though the strike was not over, because their stage crews and production teams were suffering much more than the writers from the financial crunch, and by that point had been out of work for two months.

The Writers Guild Strike of 2007 was also responsible for a notable mock feud among Stewart, Stephen Colbert, and Conan O'Brien in early 2008. Without writers to help fuel their witty banter, the three comedians concocted a crossover/rivalry in order to garner more viewers during the ratings slump. Stephen Colbert made the claim that because of "the Colbert bump", he was responsible for Mike Huckabee's success in the 2008 presidential race. Conan O'Brien claimed that he was responsible for Huckabee's success because not only had he made mention of him on his show, but also that he was responsible for Chuck Norris' success (Norris backed Huckabee). In response, Stewart claimed that he was responsible for the success of O'Brien, since Stewart had featured him on The Jon Stewart Show, and in turn the success of Huckabee. This resulted in a three-part comedic battle between the three pundits, with all three appearing on each other's shows. The feud ended on Late Night with Conan O'Brien with a mock brawl involving the three talk-show hosts.

Honors

Stewart and the rest of the members of The Daily Show have received two Peabody Awards for Indecision 2000 & Indecision 2004 covering the 2000 Presidential Election and the 2004 Presidential Election.

In the December 2003 New Years edition of Newsweek magazine, Stewart was named the "Who's Next?" person for the coming year of 2004, with the magazine predicting he would emerge as an absolute sensation in that year (the magazine said they were right at the end of that year).

Entertainment Weekly named Stewart as its "Entertainer of the Year" for 2004.

In 2004, Jon Stewart gave the Class Day address at Princeton University.

Asteroid 116939 Jonstewart, discovered April 15, 2004, is named in his honor.

Stewart was also named one of the 2005 Time 100, an annual list of 100 of the most influential people of the year by Time Magazine.

In addition, Stewart and The Daily Show received the 2005 NCTE George Orwell Award for Distinguished Contribution to Honesty and Clarity in Public Language.

Stewart was presented an Honorary All-America award by the National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA) in 2006.

April 21, 2009. President of Liberia, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf made Jon a chief.

Grammy Awards

Stewart has hosted the Grammys twice, in 2001 and in 2002. In the middle of the 2001 broadcast, after laying a number of comedic duds, Stewart did what he encourages most public officials to do, and owned up to his bad hosting: he said, "Ladies and gentlemen, I just want to say I feel your scorn and accept it." When Stewart returned to host the next year, his comedy was more successful. Joking about the performance of the song "Lady Marmalade", he said, "Our next performance is from the movie Moulin Rouge!, a film about a time when the whorehouses were about the music!" When the award winners for Album of the Year walked up on stage, many in number, Stewart quipped, "I don't know what you may have heard, but you were only supposed to go on stage if you worked on the O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack, not if you heard it."

Oscars

On January 5, 2006, Stewart was officially announced as the host of the 78th Academy Awards, which were held at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood on March 5. Responding to press questions at the time of his selection, Stewart remarked: "As a performer, I'm truly honored to be hosting the show. Although, as an avid watcher of the Oscars, I can't help but be a little disappointed with the choice. It appears to be another sad attempt to smoke out Billy Crystal." (According to The New York Times, Oscar producer Gil Cates knew Crystal was going to be performing 700 Sundays during the time period and was not able to host.) On the Monday before the Oscars, Stewart told Larry King that he was more "excited" than nervous about the job and joked that if he turns out a failure, he could be "bumped down to public access". When asked what the opening would be, the comedian chastised himself by comparing a Stewart opening to a "Gene Rayburn homage". Instead, the opening segment, preceding Stewart's monologue, featured several recent hosts "declining" to host the show.

Critical response to Stewart's performance was mixed. Various celebrities and other film personalities were generally positive. Roger Ebert compared him favorably to legendary Oscar host Johnny Carson. Other reviewers were less positive; Tom Shales of The Washington Post said that Stewart hosted with “smug humorlessness.” James Poniewozik of Time said that Stewart was a bad host, but a great “anti-host” in that he poked fun at parts of the broadcast that deserved it, which lent him a degree of authenticity with the non-Hollywood audience. Stewart and correspondent John Oliver later poked fun at his lackluster reception on The Daily Show's coverage of the 79th Academy Awards by saying that the "demon of last year's Oscars had finally been exorcised."

Stewart also hosted the 80th Academy Awards on February 24, 2008. Reception this time, however, was far more positive, with Stewart's performance commended by critics and viewers.

Filmography

References

1. Stewart, Jon (February 27, 1997). George Carlin: 40 Years of Comedy (TV). HBO.
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8. "Awards for Jon Stewart". Internet Movie Database. Retrieved April 23, 2008.
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10. "CNN CROSSFIRE". CNN. Retrieved April 23, 2008.
11. "Jon Stewart: Journalist or Comedian?". YES! Magazine. Retrieved April 23, 2008.
12. "The top 100 selling books of 2004". USA Today. December 20, 2004. Retrieved November 6, 2006.
13. "Comedy Central Writers Win WGA Contract". WGA. Retrieved April 23, 2008.
14. "Union Deal for 'Daily Show' Writers". AllBusiness.com. Retrieved April 23, 2008.
15. "WGA's Press Release". Variety magazine. Retrieved April 23, 2008.
16. Conan, Stewart, Colbert unite in TV feud, February 5, 2008
17. "Jon Stewart to be Class Day speaker". Princeton Weekly Bulletin. March 22, 2004.
18. Brokaw, Tom (September 27, 2004). "Jon Stewart". Time. Retrieved July 26, 2006. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
19. "Jon Stewart Named NSCAA Honorary All-America". NSCAA.
20. "Jon Stewart to Host Oscars". CBS. January 5, 2006. Retrieved July 26, 2006.
21. Ebert, Roger (March 5, 2006). "'Crash'-ing a joyous Oscar party". RogerEbert.com. Retrieved May 7, 2007. {{cite web}}: External link in |publisher= (help)
22. Poniewozik, James (March 6, 2006). "Jon Stewart vs. The Oscars". Time. Retrieved July 26, 2006.

External links

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• Jon Stewart vs Jim Cramer
• Official site for The Daily Show
• Jon Stewart Biography at manhattan.about.com
• Jon Stewart on National Public Radio in 2004
• Pictures and brief commentary on Stewart's college soccer years
• Stewart's appearance on Crossfire (October 15, 2004)
• Stewart on Bill Moyers Now July 2003
• Stewart on Bill Moyers Journal April 2007
• "No News is Good News": An interview in the Hartford Advocate
• Stewart in Moment magazine, 2008

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