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Jon Stewart: Professional background
With a reputation for being a funnyman even in school, Stewart moved to New York City in 1986 to try his hand at the comedy club circuit.Although he often jokes that he dropped his last name because the local announcers had difficulty with its pronunciation, Stewart has implied that it was actually due to a strained relationship with his father, a physicist who left the family in 1971 and with whom Stewart no longer has any contact
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In 1993, due in large part to the support of his friend
David Letterman, Stewart started hosting The Jon Stewart Show on MTV, the first talk show on that network.Also in 1993, he had wound up a finalist to replace
David Letterman on Late Night, losing out to
Conan O'Brien. In 1994, MTV and Paramount launched an hour-long syndicated late night version of
The Jon Stewart Show, but the show, broadcast in unhelpful 2:00 or 3:00 AM timeslots by some local stations, was a ratings flop and was cancelled in June 1995.Stewart had earlier hosted the unsuccessful You Wrote It, You Watch It on MTV, which invited viewers to send in their stories to be acted out.
In 1999, Stewart began hosting
The Daily Show on Comedy Central when Craig Kilborn left the show.Since that time, he has hosted all airings of the program save for a scant handful that have had correspondents such as Stephen Colbert filling in at the anchor desk.
Although best known for his work on
The Daily Show, Stewart has also had roles in several television series and movies.He makes fun of his film appearances, as they have largely been in movies considered to be flops, most notably Half Baked.He has guest-starred on such television shows as The Nanny
, Spin City
, and NewsRadio
and has hosted Saturday Night Live in March 2002.
Stewart drew much attention thanks to an unusual, awkward, and heated television exchange with CNN's Tucker Carlson in October 2004. Stewart decried the state of television journalism and referred to both Carlson (whom he also declared to be "as big a dick on your show as you are on any show") and co-host Paul Begala as "partisan hacks," in addition to asserting that their show, Crossfire, has failed in its responsibility to inform and educate viewers about politics as a serious topic
(transcript). This exchange became one of the most widely viewed Internet videos to date (both publicly on iFilm and bootleg via BitTorrent), and a topic of much media discussion.In January 2005, CNN announced that it was cancelling Crossfire.When asked about the cancellations, CNN's incoming CEO, Jonathan Klein, stated he "wholeheartedly agrees" with Stewart's "overall premise."
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