Jon Stewart To Take A Break From The Daily Show

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By Nads | Tuesday, March 5, 2013 | 2:42 pm | 3 Comments
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Jon Stewart is officially taking a break from The Daily Show this June to go direct a movie for eight weeks. John Oliver, his longtime correspondant will sit in Jon’s place. Pretty rad of Jon Stewart!!! And the upside is that there is not name change for the sub. It’ll be a Bewitched, Fresh Prince of Bel Air situation…same name, diff person. 

On the movie note…Jon’s film is titled, Rosewater. 

From the press release: 

“Rosewater,” a journalist’s story of his entry into the family business – government imprisonment and political incarceration in Iran – was written by Stewart and is based on the book, “Then They Came for Me: A Family’s Story of Love, Captivity, and Survival” by Iranian journalist Maziar Bahari.  Bahari was falsely accused of being a spy and imprisoned by the Iranian government shortly after being interviewed by “Daily Show” correspondent Jason Jones in 2009 when he travelled to Iran to file a series of reports for the show (link to segment TK).  Bahari later appeared as a guest on “The Daily Show” in June 2011.

So political, but so cool!!! We’ll miss you, Jon!

Here’s the interview of Jon with Maziar back in 2011: 

Part 2:

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3 Comments

  1. 1
    Dashley Dashley
    Posted March 5, 2013 at 4:27 pm

    LOVE me some Daily Show. And it probably won’t change too much, right? Because it’ll probably be all the same writers?
    But I don’t know about John Oliver being the sub. He’s hilarious, and I can listen to his accent all day, but I feel like they chose him because he has the biggest name outside of TDS. Lately, Al Madrigal has been bringing it. He has been, far and away, the funniest correspondent in recent months. But maybe that’s just my sense of humor. John Oliver’s humor reminds me too much of Stephen Colbert, and it’s starting to feel stale.

  2. 2
    sweetblondie
    Posted March 6, 2013 at 10:51 am

    @Dashley: I couldn’t agree more…Al and Jessica are the highlights of this show for me!

  3. 3
    Dear Crabby
    Posted March 7, 2013 at 12:11 pm

    Agree with you both – Al is hilarious…also love Aasif and Jessica. I’m going to miss Jon those 8 weeks but sounds like a great project…

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