Salon.com > John Oliver http://www.salon.com Fri, 03 May 2013 21:58:50 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 John Oliver to guest-host “Daily Show” starting June 10 http://www.salon.com/2013/05/01/john_oliver_to_guest_host_daily_show_starting_june_10/ http://www.salon.com/2013/05/01/john_oliver_to_guest_host_daily_show_starting_june_10/#comments Wed, 01 May 2013 17:45:00 +0000 http://www.railrode.net/?p=13286815 Jon Stewart will go on an eight-week hiatus (previously reported as 12) from hosting "The Daily Show" beginning Monday, June 10, Comedy Central has announced.

Stewart is taking a break from hosting the show to direct his first film, “Rosewater,” an adaptation of BBC journalist Maziar Bahari’s harrowing memoir of imprisonment in Iran, for which Stewart also wrote the screenplay. Stewart is slated to return on Tuesday, Sept. 3.

John Oliver, who has been a "Daily Show" correspondent for the past seven years, will guest-host in Stewart's place. "Don’t worry, it’s still going to be everything that you love about ‘The Daily Show,’ just without the thing that you love the most about it,” said Oliver in a press release. Guests for Oliver’s first week include Seth Rogen, Armando Iannucci, Fareed Zakaria and a musical performance by Mavis Staples.

Although die-hard "Daily Show" fans will miss Stewart's comedic genius this summer, the show is still in good hands. Below are some of John Oliver's most memorable segments:

"Even Better Than the Real Thing"

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2013/05/01/john_oliver_to_guest_host_daily_show_starting_june_10/feed/ 3 Must-see morning clip: John Oliver learns that guns are victims, too http://www.salon.com/2013/04/02/must_see_morning_clip_john_oliver_learns_that_guns_are_victims_too/ http://www.salon.com/2013/04/02/must_see_morning_clip_john_oliver_learns_that_guns_are_victims_too/#comments Tue, 02 Apr 2013 13:20:00 +0000 http://www.railrode.net/?p=13258715 "The Daily Show" correspondent John Oliver interviews gun activist Charles Heller, who is protecting guns from people in Arizona. When shown the above photo of guns being destroyed, Heller told Oliver, "That one makes me think of what happened to the Warsaw ghetto in 1943."

Oliver responded dryly, "That is definitely not overstating it."

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2013/04/02/must_see_morning_clip_john_oliver_learns_that_guns_are_victims_too/feed/ 2 Jon Stewart to take a three-month hiatus from “The Daily Show” to direct his first film http://www.salon.com/2013/03/05/jon_stewart_to_take_a_three_month_hiatus_from_the_daily_show_to_direct_his_first_film/ http://www.salon.com/2013/03/05/jon_stewart_to_take_a_three_month_hiatus_from_the_daily_show_to_direct_his_first_film/#comments Tue, 05 Mar 2013 20:02:00 +0000 http://www.railrode.net/?p=13219874 "Daily Show" fans will be shocked to hear that veteran host Jon Stewart will be taking a three-month hiatus from the show come this summer to direct a movie -- and it's not a comedy. Deadline is reporting that Stewart will take 12 weeks off to direct "Rosewater," a film for which he already wrote the screenplay, adapted from the 2011 memoir "Then They Came for Me: A Family’s Story of Love, Captivity and Survival." The drama marks Stewart's first foray into directing.

"Then They Came For Me" is BBC journalist Maziar Bahari's harrowing account of what was supposed to be a week-long trip to cover Iran’s presidential elections. Instead, Bahari's visit extended to 118 days, during which time he was trapped in an Iranian prison, interrogated by a man he could only identify by the smell of rosewater.

Stewart has a personal connection to the film: Bahari had performed in a "Daily Show" sketch several years ago, which Iranian authorities used as footage against him, accusing him of "plotting to stage a revolution against the government," according to the New York Times

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2013/03/05/jon_stewart_to_take_a_three_month_hiatus_from_the_daily_show_to_direct_his_first_film/feed/ 15 Must-see morning clip http://www.salon.com/2012/10/03/must_see_morning_clip_35/ http://www.salon.com/2012/10/03/must_see_morning_clip_35/#comments Wed, 03 Oct 2012 13:57:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=13028981 The Hermanator does not disappoint:

The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c
Herman Cain: An American Presidency - Chinese Debt Crisis
www.thedailyshow.com
Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor & Satire Blog The Daily Show on Facebook

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