Jon Stewart (actor)

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Jon Stewart (2016)

Jon Stewart (* 28. November 1962 in New York City as Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz ) is an American comedian , actor , writer , producer and director . He is best known for the satirical news program The Daily Show with Jon Stewart , which he hosted on Comedy Central from 1999 to 2015 .

Life

Jon Stewart was born as Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz. His mother Marian (nee Laskin) was a teacher and later an educational advisor, while his father Donald Leibowitz was a professor of physics at the College of New Jersey (formerly Trenton State College). Stewart's family are Lithuanian Jews who emigrated to America from Poland, Ukraine and Belarus. One of his grandfathers was born in Manzhouli (now part of Inner Mongolia ). Stewart has an older brother, Lawrence, and two younger brothers, Dan and Matthew.

Stewart's parents divorced when he was 11 years old and he was largely estranged from his father. This is one of the reasons why he decided to drop his last name and use his middle name "Stuart" instead.

Stewart and his brother Lawrence grew up in Lawrenceville, New Jersey and attended Lawrence High School there . Stewart played at the football club there and was voted the student with the best sense of humor by his senior year. During this time he describes himself as "a fan of Eugene Debs and a bit left-wing ".

Stewart grew up in the era of the Vietnam War and the Watergate scandal, which gave him a "healthy skepticism of public reports". His first job was at Woolworth , where his brother Lawrence worked.

In 1984 he graduated from the College of William & Mary in Virginia , where he originally majored in chemistry before switching to psychology; He also played on the soccer team like in high school. During his student days, Stewart became a member of the student fraternity "Pi Kappa Alpha", but later distanced himself and left the fraternity after six months. "My college career consisted of getting up late, memorizing someone else's notes, smoking bongs , and going to soccer practice," he later recalls. His soccer coach would later describe him as a “good player” with “a lot of energy”. After college, Stewart held a variety of jobs including emergency planner for the New Jersey Department of Human Services, contract administrator for the City University of New York , puppeteer for children with disabilities, football coach at a Virginia high school, caterer, operator, shelf filler at Woolworth's and Bartender in iconic City Gardens in Trenton, New Jersey . After moving to New York, he performed primarily as a stand-up comedian in the city's comedy clubs and soon became a regular performer at the Comedy Cellar in Manhattan , where he was the last comedian to appear every night for two years.

Beginnings in television

In 1989, Stewart began writing for the television program Caroline's Comedy Hour . From 1991 to 1993 he was co-host alongside Patty Rosborough on the program Short Attention Span Theater on Comedy Central and hosted the sketch series You Wrote It, You Watch It on MTV .

Stewart, 2010

Stewart's career was in 1993 by an appearance on the NBC -Show Late Night with David Letterman a big boost. In the same year he got his own show on MTV , the Jon Stewart Show . The show was after Beavis and Butthead the most successful show on the music channel. However, the show flopped a year later when it was syndicated as a one-hour version produced by MTV and Paramount Pictures . In 1995 the program was canceled.

The Daily Show

In 1999, Stewart took over Comedy Central's The Daily Show , which had previously been moderated by comedian Craig Kilborn with moderate success . With Jon Stewart, the show quickly became immensely successful.

The influence of Stewart and the Daily Show on the political debate in the US was estimated to be very large. In July 2009, Jon Stewart was voted the “most trusted newscaster” by the readers of the online edition of Time magazine (after the death of Walter Cronkite ) - and this in front of “serious” stars like Charlie Gibson from the television station ABC or Brian Williams from NBC . Stewart saw himself only as a satirist.

Stewart is known for his critical stance on the performance of the major news media in the United States, which he accuses of extensive failures in terms of independent research and control of politics; If there was enough investigative journalism, Stewart said, his own show would be superfluous. In particular, the conservative American news channel Fox News , which is close to the Republicans , has been regularly accused by Stewart of being biased and spreading disinformation.

Stewart also attracted attention with his appearance on the popular CNN program Crossfire in 2004, in which he accused the surprised presenters of this political talk show, Tucker Carlson and Paul Begala , of not providing viewers with serious and enlightening information about political issues, but rather Instead, she only promoted the polarization of the political discussion and the division of American society in her broadcast: “It's hurting America. Here is what I wanted to tell you guys: Stop ... You have a responsibility to the public discourse, and you fail miserably ”(“ It harms America. This is what I wanted to tell you: stop ... you carry Responsibility to public discourse , and you fail miserably ”). The program was discontinued a little later by CNN, expressly with reference to Stewart's criticism.

In addition to the Daily Show , Jon Stewart was also seen in several movies, including The Faculty , Half Baked , Kill Smoochy , Big Daddy and Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back , and in guest roles in various television series such as Chaos City , The Nanny or even The Simpsons . He also hosted the Oscars in 2006 and 2008 and the Grammy Awards in 2001 and 2002.

In 2014, Stewart directed the drama Rosewater . The film, for which Stewart also wrote the script, is based on the memoir Then They Came for Me by the Iranian-Canadian journalist and activist Maziar Bahari and tells of his imprisonment in Iran in 2009.

In 2015, Stewart announced that he would be handing over the Daily Show . On August 6, 2015, after around 16 years of activity, he hosted his last show, since then the Daily Show has been hosted by South African cabaret artist Trevor Noah .

Due to the great success of the Daily Show , Stewart was named "The most trusted name in fake news" based on the former CNN slogan. Despite its still fundamentally satirical approach, Stewart's Daily Show had developed into a very important authority in investigative journalism and critical political reporting.

After the Daily Show, Jon Stewart returned to HBO . Stewart signed a four-year contract with HBO in November 2015 to produce videos for HBO's streaming services HBO Now and HBO Go . However, the start of the project was postponed several times and finally canceled on May 23, 2017.

Private

In the summer of 1987 he shared a holiday home with Anthony Weiner, who later became Congressman .

In 1997, on the set of Wishful Thinking, a production assistant arranged a blind date between Stewart and Tracey Lynn McShane. They dated each other for four years. Stewart proposed a personalized crossword puzzle with the help of Will Shortz, editor of crosswords for the New York Times . The two married in 2000. On June 19, 2001, Stewart and his wife filed a joint application for a name change, legally changing their last name to Stewart . The couple have two children through in vitro fertilization : a son born on July 3, 2004 and a daughter born on February 4, 2006.

In 2013, Jon and Tracey bought a five-acre farm called Bufflehead Farm in Middletown, New Jersey . They use it as a home for abused animals. Stewart has been eating a vegetarian diet for ethical reasons since 2015 ; his wife has been a vegan for a long time .

In 2004, Stewart received an honorary doctorate from his previous university .

In 2017, the couple received approval to open an 18 hectare animal shelter in Colts Neck , which is to become a new home for animals rescued from slaughterhouses, for example.

Awards

Stewart has received a total of 19 Emmy Awards for his work on the Daily Show, including 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2009, 2011, 2012 and 2015 for screenplay for a variety, music or comedy show, and ten years in Episode for variety, music or comedy show from 2003 to 2012.

In addition, his program received the Peabody Award twice for the segments Indecision 2000 and Indecision 2004 , the coverage of the Daily Show during the US presidential elections in the corresponding years. Also in 2004, along with the authors of the Daily Show , he received the Thurber Prize for American Humor for the book The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Presents America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction . In 2005 Stewart received a Grammy Award for best comedy album for the accompanying audio book .

Stewart was also featured in the 2005 Time 100 , an annual list of the most influential people for the year published by Time Magazine .

In 2015, the year he left, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart received the Institutional Peabody Award .

bibliography

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Commons : Jon Stewart  - album with pictures, videos and audio files
Wikiquote: Jon Stewart  - Quotes

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ Jon Stewart. Retrieved October 5, 2017 .
  3. ^ A b Donald Leibowitz's Obituary on The Times, Trenton ,. Retrieved October 5, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Megan Smolenyak: Hey, Jon Stewart, Your Roots Are Showing. In: Huffington Post. February 25, 2013. Retrieved October 5, 2017 (American English).
  5. ^ Jon Stewart's brother leaving NYSE . In: New York Post . November 26, 2013 ( nypost.com [accessed October 5, 2017]).
  6. ^ Freeman, Hadley (Apr. 18, 2015). "Jon Stewart: Why I Quit The Daily Show" . The Guardian
  7. ^ Jon Stewart Yearbook Photo & School Pictures. In: classmates.com. Retrieved October 5, 2017 (American English).
  8. ↑ a. a .: anchor.html. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on January 16, 2005 ; accessed on October 5, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / home.earthlink.net
  9. ^ Freeman, Hadley (April 18, 2015). Jon Stewart: why I quit The Daily Show . The Guardian
  10. ↑  (October 22, 2010). Bloomberg Game Changers: Jon Stewart  [Television production]. Bloomberg Television . October 24, 2010.
  11. ↑ Jon Stewart - unhappy PiKA? In: GreekChat.com Forums. Retrieved October 5, 2017 .
  12. ^ A Very Young Jon Stewart's 1994 Interview With New York Magazine . In: Vulture . November 3, 2014 ( vulture.com [accessed October 5, 2017]).
  13. Jump up ↑ Jon Stewart: College Soccer Star Named "Leibo". Retrieved October 5, 2017 (American English).
  14. ^ Jill Gerston: TELEVISION; MTV Has a Hit With Words By Jon Stewart . In: The New York Times . March 13, 1994, ISSN  0362-4331 ( nytimes.com [accessed October 5, 2017]).
  15. ^ Paul Harris: The Observer profile: Jon Stewart . In: The Guardian . February 26, 2006, ISSN  0261-3077 ( theguardian.com [accessed October 5, 2017]).
  16. ↑ CNN Will Cancel 'Crossfire' and Cut Ties to Commentator . New York Times January 6, 2005.
  17. ↑ Nils Minkmar: Last "Daily Show" with Jon Stewart: Savior of the under-challenged. In: Spiegel Online , August 6, 2015. Accessed August 11, 2015.
  18. ↑ Jon Stewart, Sarcastic Critic of Politics and Media, Is Signing Off - New York Times on August 5th, 2015
  19. ↑ John Koblin: Jon Stewart and HBO Cancel Animated Shorts Project . In: The New York Times . May 23, 2017, ISSN  0362-4331 ( nytimes.com [accessed September 23, 2017]).
  20. ↑ James Burnett: Life of the Party (English) . In: New York Magazine , December 3, 2001. Retrieved August 25, 2016. 
  21. ↑ a b Interview With Jon Stewart. CNN, February 7, 2001, accessed October 5, 2017 .
  22. ↑ Irene Steve: Play on words. The Christian Science Monitor, June 16, 2006, accessed February 17, 2012 .
  23. ↑ Thomas Snyder: Dr. Sudoku Prescribes: A Modest Proposal . In: WIRED . ( wired.com [accessed October 5, 2017]).
  24. ↑ Documents | The smoking gun. (No longer available online.) June 12, 2014, archived from the original on December 31, 2006 ; accessed on October 5, 2017 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.thesmokinggun.com
  25. ^ Judith Newman: Tracey Stewart's Animal Planet . In: The New York Times . October 10, 2015, ISSN  0362-4331 ( nytimes.com [accessed October 5, 2017]).
  26. ^ A Baby Girl for Jon Stewart . In: PEOPLE.com . February 7, 2006 ( people.com [accessed October 5, 2017]).
  27. ↑ Tammy La Gorce: Tracey Stewart Counts Her Sheep, and More . In: The New York Times . October 23, 2015, ISSN  0362-4331 ( nytimes.com [accessed October 5, 2017]).
  28. ^ Tracey Stewart's Animal Planet. Retrieved October 5, 2017 .
  29. ^ [1] Laudation Peabody Award 2000 (engl.)
  30. ↑ [2] Laudation Peabody Award 2004 (engl.)
  31. ↑ Thurber Prize ( Memento of the original from February 8, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.thurberhouse.org
  32. ^ Institutional Award: The Daily Show with Jon Stewart . ( peabodyawards.com [accessed September 27, 2017]).
personal data
SURNAME Stewart, Jon
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Leibowitz, Jonathan Stuart (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American comedian, actor, writer, producer, and director
DATE OF BIRTH November 28, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City