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By: Keith Huang »
June 20, 2006
Sit Down Comedy with David Steinberg: Featuring Jon Stewart @ John Jay College - 6.16.6
The stage is set!
TV Land taped an episode of Sit Down Comedy with David Steinberg last Friday. It's conceptually the same as Inside the Actor's Studio, but for comedy. Or Inside Joke, but on television. FREE tickets were available at OCATV.com. The featured guest was Jon Stewart. They talked for about an hour and a half and did some Q&A to finish. Podcasts from previous shows are available here.
NOTES
--Jon Stewart's real last name is Leibowitz. (INTERNAL NOTE: Possibly Jewish?)
--When asked why comedy doesn't get the same treatment as the rest of the arts, Jon thought it's because it is too accessible--everybody thinks they can be funny. People look at famous comics as folks who just get lucky.
--The Daily Show does not write for its audience nor does it have any political agenda. The writers' only allegiance is to their visceral reactions.
--NOBODY LIKES YOU WHEN YOU'RE TWO: Stewart said he had kids; one is 2, the other is 4 months. The mention of the 4-month old elicited an "Awwwwww" from the crowd. The 2-year old got nothing.
--Stewart compared the shelf life of an episode of The Daily Show to a plate of Mexican food.
--David Steinberg has been on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson more than any other guest. He's kind of a big deal.
--Steinberg was once THREATENED WITH ASSASSINATION for telling a Richard Nixon joke. Stewart resigned that if Washington really thought TDS was a serious threat, actions would have been taken.
Steinberg and Stewart leave the stage. (Cameras were not permitted during the show)
Posted by The Apiary at June 20, 2006 4:22 PM
Comments
I think you're right about jon being jewash. He looks jewash, too. maybe jon's just being jewish.
But then again, I think jon's famous friend, Steven Coolbear, may be Christian.
I pray to God/Allah that He gives us all, one day, a Muslim correspondent on THE DAILY SHOW. Mr. Dave Chappelle is a Muslim - but he's also Black, which means he wouldn't be staffed on such a show.
Posted by: 2,006 Whirled Cups of Comedy at June 20, 2006 7:46 PM
No muslims on the Daily Show... if they start staffing with anything other than dopey white guys, it wouldn't like real news and the joke wouldn't work.
Posted by: DanielK at June 22, 2006 2:43 AM
John Stewart has repeatedly said he's Jewish on his show. He has never tried to hide it. He's also made fun and critisized Israel all too often.
Posted by: ng fd at June 22, 2006 3:04 AM
from tonight's episode this is one of the most insane t.v. moments in recent memory. no words can describe this clip...
Posted by: hotpotatomash at June 22, 2006 3:28 AM
I'm hoping that the "is Jon Stewart Jewish" comments are all tongue in cheek. Jonathan Stewart Leibowitz is very openly Jewish; in fact, his religion/ethnicity is an integral part of his humour (he's also my own personal "nice Jewish boy," but that's another story).
As for staffing people of other races/ethnicities, the reason that hasn't happened yet is that the powers that be are not certain how much longer TDS will continue in its present format so they have been very loathe to add to/alter the correspondent make-up from its present cast, but if the show is continued, they are going to try and recruit some new (probably more diverse) faces.
Posted by: tymberwolf at June 22, 2006 9:14 AM
it was toungue in cheek, and why do other jews have to be so damn sensitive. some of the greatest comedians in the world are jewish, yet the rest of the population can't take a freaking joke.
Posted by: Katie at June 22, 2006 10:14 AM
Have you seen the column in the Washington Post on Friday claiming Jon and The Daily Show may be "poisening democracy"??/
Go to www.enemyofdemocracy.com to find out more and register your outrage!
thanks
Paul
Posted by: Paulpaz at June 25, 2006 5:19 PM