Daily Show Production Team Nets Creative Freedom 272
gremlins writes "Jon Stewart, who recently celebrated his sixth anniversary with "The Daily Show" and was a rumored possible replacement to Dan Rathers, has signed a deal which allows his production team, Busboy Productions, to develop televison projects on their own. The deal also allows Busboy Productions to flirt with other networks when looking for a home for the projects. Comedy Central still gets the right of first refusal for any projects created."
Re:That's great (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Jon Stewart rocks... (Score:5, Informative)
If you like the show, read his book. America: Democracy Inaction [amazon.com] is only $15, for god's sake, and anything that includes footnotes like:
"For purposes of this chapter, "people" still refers to white land owners."
"Until 1920, the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November was known to women as 'Stay Home and Bake Day'"
The Study... (Score:3, Informative)
Re:The sad thing is... (Score:5, Informative)
Re:The sad thing is... (Score:3, Informative)
The Daily Show claims to have extended an invitation to George W. Bush. I can't imagine that Bush would have received the same treatment, though Bill O'Reilly got a grudging round of applause when he appeared on the Daily Show to eat some crow about his "stoned slackers" remark.
Then again, I saw Al Gore's and George W. Bush's appearances on Letterman in 2000. Gore got along very well with Letterman, having been on the show before in his capacity as vice president. Bush appeared via satellite, cracked some awful surgery-related jokes (Letterman had underwent bypass surgery) and got loudly booed.
Re:And the Obvious Question is... (Score:3, Informative)
Daily show is on CNN in Asia (Score:5, Informative)
Political satire has always been just as, or indeed more effective in changing opinion on policies and governments than the regular news media.
Dismiss this man at your peril.