The Daily Show’s Chuck O’Neil also won an Emmy for top Director in a Variety Series.
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Two months later, after Jon Stewart announced his surprising decision to retire and Comedy Central scrambled to offer the job apparently to anyone and everyone, from Louis C.K.to Chris Rock to Amy Schumer, the Viacom-owned cable channel settled on the neophyte outsider with the amusing accent.
“I can’t seem to get over that line”, she quoted Tubman as saying.
“Oh, everyone, everyone, everyone on the street, everyone in an office, everyone on Twitter, everyone has advice for me, everyone stops me to give me advice”, he said.
Noah’s choice of a second guest is more intriguing: On Tuesday he’ll talk with Whitney Wolfe, a co-founder of the dating app Tinder who filed a sexual harassment suit after leaving the startup.
“Yeah, I’m rooting for him”, Oliver said, adding that he was in awe just to honored among the other hosts. “Now that I’m not on television, obviously, I’ll do a lot of it in my living room, generally in my underwear yelling at the TV”. Comedy Central revealed the guest line-up for Noah’s premiere week and the list is actually pretty diverse.
From the beginning, he joked about things that were on his mind, but even when they touched on painful social issues he was never fueled by anger, he insists.
When Stewart got up to the stage to collect his hardware, he made remarks on how his life has changed since he left his talk show this past summer. It’s, like, open. There’s blood everywhere. Had I been given the choice at the time – if they said, ‘You vote, Keanu Reeves or Will Smith?’ – I would have gone: ‘That is a stupid and obvious answer. That’s what Jon did and that’s what he told me to do. That’s literally what happens.
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Hold on. By mentioning how hard it is to find vegan food, did Stewart out himself as one? Stewart was always quite fun with the celebrity guests, but when it came time to have politicians on the show, he asked tough questions that resulted in some of the best late night television interviews in history.
