28 Facts About The Daily Show

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Daily Show is an American late-night talk and satirical news television program.

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The Daily Show is the longest-running program on Comedy Central, and has won 24 Primetime Emmy Awards.

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Stewart and other Daily Show writers responded to such criticism by saying that they do not have any journalistic responsibility and that as comedians, their only duty is to provide entertainment.

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The Daily Show has played host to former and current members of the Administration and Cabinet as well as members of Congress.

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The Daily Show's writers begin each day with a morning meeting where they review material that researchers have gathered from major newspapers, the Associated Press, cable news television channels and websites, and discuss headline material for the lead news segment.

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Daily Show was created by Lizz Winstead and Madeleine Smithberg and premiered on Comedy Central on July 22,1996, having been marketed as a replacement for Politically Incorrect.

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The Daily Show was much less politically focused than it later became under Jon Stewart, having what Stephen Colbert described as a local news feel and involving more character-driven humor as opposed to news-driven humor.

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The Daily Show claimed the "Five Questions" interview segment as intellectual property, disallowing any future Daily Show hosts from using it in their interviews.

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The Daily Show recalls that he initially struggled with the Kilborn holdover writers to gain control of the show and put his own imprint on the show's voice, a struggle that led to the departure of a number of the holdover writers.

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Under Stewart and Karlin The Daily Show developed a markedly different style, bringing a sharper political focus to the humor than the show previously exhibited.

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11.

Comedy Central indicated in a statement that The Daily Show would continue without Stewart, saying it would "endure for years to come".

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12.

The second segment featured a pre-recorded tour of the Daily Show production facility and studio introducing all of the show's staff and crew.

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The Daily Show's first show was on September 28,2015, with comedian Kevin Hart as his first guest.

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14.

On March 18,2020, Comedy Central began to release webisodes of The Daily Show produced remotely from Noah's home, entitled The Daily Social Distancing Show.

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In May 2020, The Daily Show won the 2020 Webby Award for Humor in the category Social.

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The Daily Show returned on September 13,2021, with the show re-located to studios at ViacomCBS's headquarters at One Astor Plaza in Times Square.

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In March 2022, it was announced that The Daily Show would go on a hiatus from March 18 to accommodate Noah's hosting of the Grammy Awards on April 3.

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The Daily Show's correspondents have two principal roles: experts with satirical senior titles that Noah interviews about certain issues, or hosts of field reporting segments which often involve humorous commentary and interviews relating to a current issue.

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The Daily Show has featured a number of well-known comedians throughout its run and is notable for boosting the careers of several of these.

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20.

Carmon's column was denounced by Munn and the Daily Show female writers, producers, and correspondents, 32 of whom posted a rebuttal on the show's website in which they asserted that the description of the Daily Show office given by the Jezebel piece was not accurate.

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Munn appeared as a Daily Show correspondent in a total of 16 episodes, from June 2010 to September 2011.

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22.

Tucker Carlson and Daily Show co-creator Lizz Winstead have chastised Stewart for criticizing politicians and newspeople in his solo segments and then, in interviews with the same people, rarely taking them to task face-to-face.

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When co-host Carlson argued that Stewart himself had not asked John Kerry substantial questions when Kerry appeared on The Daily Show, Stewart countered that it was not his job to give hard-hitting interviews and that a "fake news" comedy program should not be held to the same standards as real journalism.

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In late 2004, the National Annenberg Election Survey at the University of Pennsylvania ran a study of American television viewers and found that fans of The Daily Show had a more accurate idea of the facts behind the 2004 presidential election than most others, including those who primarily got their news through the national network evening newscasts and through reading newspapers.

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America : A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction, the 2004 bestseller written by Stewart and the writing staff of The Daily Show, was recognized by Publishers Weekly as its "Book of the Year", and its abridged audiobook edition received the 2005 Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album.

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In July 2012 Comedy Central announced that The Daily Show would be shown on Comedy Central Extra in the same format as previously on More4, with episodes shown 24 hours after airing in the US The show aired on the channel from July 2012 to April 2015.

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27.

In North Africa and the Middle East, the Daily Show was broadcast on Showtime Arabia starting in 2008 and ending in 2015.

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28.

Episodes of the US version are available online the next day at Comedy Central's official Daily Show website, although this service is not available in all countries.

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