Jon Stewart
Jon Stewart
Jon Stewartis an American comedian, writer, producer, director, actor, media critic, and former television host. From 1999 to 2015, he was the host of The Daily Show, a satirical news program that airs on Comedy Central...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntertainer
Date of Birth28 November 1962
CountryUnited States of America
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Getting between him and his fans -- I don?t think it?s the P. I think it?s the bodyguards,
miss opportunity tickled
I already miss him. At 42, you don't get the opportunity to be tickled a lot.
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It doesn't mean you're going to have a good pro career, or even do well in the bowl game. But to get to that point means something. Now you're in the club.
You know what's interesting, though? You're as big a dick on your show as you are on any show.
ivy percent staff together
When I said that I wanted to put together a writing staff that would only be 80 percent Ivy League-educated Jews, they said it couldn't be done,
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I think there is nothing remotely gay about classic Hollywood westerns.
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GOP strategists hope the revelation of Kerry's wealth might debunk his status as a, quote, man of the people, and reveal him to be a bit of a fat cat. Unlike the President who as we all know before attending Andover and Yale, was a Cockney matchstick girl dying of tuberculosis.
chalk hours last man morning neurotic next room spend standing throwing tomatoes trying
I am a tiny, neurotic man, standing in the back of the room throwing tomatoes at the chalk board. And that's really it. And what we do is we come in in the morning and we go, "Did you see that thing last night? Aahh!" And then we spend the next 8 or 9 hours trying to take this and make it into something funny.
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He's not stupid ... he's not a retarded man ... he just doesn't give a shit about you, or anything,
moving jam comedy
Doing stand-up comedy is in the middle of a traffic jam getting everybody moving again.
rap different might
Comedy is the only form of entertainment where the audience doesn't know what to expect. In an evening, you might get ten comics doing ten different things. That's not what happens when you go to hear music. There isn't a classical performance followed by a hoedown followed by rap.
energy life-is judo
Being funny in life is a lot more like judo. It's using the energy...
lines paint stage
Typically, when you're with your friends, premises are coming up left and right. But when you're on stage, you must create the premise. So you have to create the premise, paint the picture and then deliver the punch line.
fighting thinking people
People always say, when did you realize you were funny? And I think it's not that you realize you were funny. It's that you're brain works in a certain way. And I don't think that that's - I think in some respects it's uncontrollable, and you can either accept it and deal with it and hone it or you can try to fight it. And I was too weak to fight it.