Jon Stewart: A Biography (Greenwood Biographies)

This biography profiles Jon Stewart televisions most incisive deliverer of the fake news. As the host of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart he has attracted a vast audience that sees him as one of the few credible sources of cultural critique TV.As comfortable and adept at interviewing Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf U.S. President Barack Obama activist Al Sharpton or political commentator Bill OReilly as he is chatting with Angelina Jolie Bill Gates or Denis Leary Jon Stewart has emerged as one of the hottest television personalities and most powerful media icons of the 21st century. The Daily Show with Jon Stewart currently Comedy Centrals longest running show has launched the successful careers of Stephen Colbert (host of The Colbert Report) and Steve Carell (star of The 40 Year Old Virgin and the popular television series The Office) and an appearance on Stewarts half-hour segment is coveted by both political figures and Hollywood celebrities as one of the most important places to be seen.Well-read impossibly well-versed in current events charismatic and self-deprecating Stewart has successfully garnered a broad-based following of viewers from teens to senior citizens. Ideal for students and general readers alike this biography profiles the always controversial always prepared Stewart including his early life his first break in comedy and his meteoric rise to joining an elite group of well-known and often-quoted media personalities.