5:42 pm - 03/05/2013
It's no joke. Jon Stewart, who's anchored Comedy Central's The Daily Show since 1999, will take a 12-week hiatus to make his feature directing debut.
Stewart's project is Rosewater, an adaptation of Maziar Bahari's memoir Then They Came for Me: A Family's Story of Love, Captivity and Survival published in 2011. It tells the story of Bahari's travels to Iran in June 2009 to cover the country's presidential elections for the BBC.
What was planned as a one-week trip turned into a nightmare when Bahari was held in an Iranian prison for 118 days and was subjected to brutal interrogations by a man he knew only by his scent — rosewater.
Bahari was accused of being a spy, and one of the pieces of "evidence" used against him was an appearance he made on The Daily Show.
Stewart, who wrote the Rosewater script, will leave the show for about 12 weeks this summer, and Daily Show regular John Oliver will guest-host eight weeks of new shows.
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Jon Stewart taking break to direct a film about Iran; John Oliver to guest-host TDS
It's no joke. Jon Stewart, who's anchored Comedy Central's The Daily Show since 1999, will take a 12-week hiatus to make his feature directing debut.
Stewart's project is Rosewater, an adaptation of Maziar Bahari's memoir Then They Came for Me: A Family's Story of Love, Captivity and Survival published in 2011. It tells the story of Bahari's travels to Iran in June 2009 to cover the country's presidential elections for the BBC.
What was planned as a one-week trip turned into a nightmare when Bahari was held in an Iranian prison for 118 days and was subjected to brutal interrogations by a man he knew only by his scent — rosewater.
Bahari was accused of being a spy, and one of the pieces of "evidence" used against him was an appearance he made on The Daily Show.
Stewart, who wrote the Rosewater script, will leave the show for about 12 weeks this summer, and Daily Show regular John Oliver will guest-host eight weeks of new shows.
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12 weeks is too long
Edited at 2013-03-05 11:35 pm (UTC)
though i am secretly hoping that colbert tries to steal the 11:00 time slot from john and succeeds. then when jon comes back, he has to get his time slot back in a battle royale.
my brother and i have this whole damn scenario planned out lol
Edited at 2013-03-05 11:43 pm (UTC)
Also, I was hoping there would be other Buglers on ONTD. :)
However, illustrating their dramatic height difference would throw off the shot.
Also, Jon owns the production company that owns the majority stake in The Colbert Report and therefore if he wants to lessen the height difference, I doubt anyone's going to argue.
Hope this isn't an audition for something more permanent.