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
writing hot stones
What I like to do is come in, write the entire program and treat my staff to hot stone massages.
beautiful news shows
The beautiful thing about faking a news show is the topicality is delayed.
media upset levels
I have become increasingly unnerved by the depth of corruption that exists at many different levels. I'm less upset with politicians than [with] the media.
real kids home
The real challenge is when I'm at work, I'm at work. I'm locked in, I'm ready to go, I'm focused. When I'm at home, I'm locked in and I'm ready to go and I'm focused on home. We don't watch the show. We don't watch the news. We don't do any of that stuff. I sit down, I play Barbies. And sometimes the kids will come home and play with me.
thinking world administration
I really think [the Bush Administration]'s foreign policy agenda is to spread irony through the world.
teacher school gay
I remember having a grade-school teacher I thought was a hard-ass. When you're that age, you think the guy is Himmler. Then you visit him eight years later and he's wearing polyester pants, he's four foot eight, you think he's gay, and you're like, 'Are you the guy I was afraid of?
baseball grandmother boys
My life was typical. I played a little Little League baseball. I never wanted for food. I always had shoes. I had a room. There were no great tragedies. There were the typical ups and downs but I wouldn' t say it was at all sad. We were Jewish and living in the suburbs so there was a slightly neurotic bent to it, but I can't point to anything where a boy overcame a tragedy to become a comedian. As my grandmother used to say, 'I can't complain.
soccer kids mary
In 1982 I was playing soccer at William and Mary, and a kid from Randolph-Macon called me a kike. I ran after him. 'I'm not a... well, yes I am.
cheer chaos kind
You feel kind of weird cheering for chaos. There is that sense that the crazier it gets, the better off we are. Before, when I was part of the American public, I was hoping for a reasonable and quick solution to the impeachment process. Now, I'm hoping for partisan bedlam and chaos. It's really what serves me best.
believe comforting billionaire
I can't believe I'm comforting a billionaire.
people scream streets
People! Take to the streets and scream 'BE REASONABLE!'
country hate israel
Iran, Ireland, Israel. That's three countries, four religions that HATE each other. Way to go, 'I'.
might sound thirst
[He died of thirst?] That sounds, if I might say, like the greatest Sprite commercial ever.
way
Clearly, I'm way older than everyone.