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The Daily Show
''The Daily Show'' is an American late-night talk and satirical news television program. It airs each Monday through Thursday on Comedy Central with release shortly after on Paramount+. ''The Daily Show'' draws its comedy and satire form from recent news stories as well as political figures, media organizations, and often uses self-referential humor. The half-hour-long show premiered on July 22, 1996, and was first hosted by Craig Kilborn until December 17, 1998. Jon Stewart then took over as the host from January 11, 1999, until August 6, 2015, making the show more strongly focused on political satire and news satire, in contrast with the pop culture focus during Kilborn's tenure. Stewart was succeeded by Trevor Noah, whose tenure began on September 28, 2015. Under the different hosts, the show has been formally known as ''The Daily Show with Craig Kilborn'' from 1996 to 1998, ''The Daily Show with Jon Stewart'' from 1999 until 2015, and ''The Daily Show with Trevor Noah'' si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Bodow
Steve Bodow is an American television writer and producer. Most recently he was Executive Producer and showrunner of Netflix's ''Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj''. From 2015 to early 2019 he was Executive Producer/co-showrunner of ''The Daily Show with Trevor Noah'', following his 13 years at ''The Daily Show with Jon Stewart'' as an Executive Producer, Head Writer and staff writer. In his time at TDS, Bodow won 14 Emmys and two Peabody Awards. Bodow also co-edited and co-wrote the Daily Show's three best-selling books, America: The Book; Earth: The Book (2010); anThe Donald J. Trump Presidential Twitter Library The Trump Twitter Library also became a live installation event, touring the US and winning a Cannes Lions Grand Prix. He was additionally Consulting Producer for ''The Opposition with Jordan Klepper'', after serving as EP on the hour-long '' Jordan Klepper Solves Guns'' special. In 2021 Bodow created and coordinate"Climate Night,"a one-night event where seven major US late- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Comedy Central
Comedy Central is an American basic cable channel owned by Paramount Global through its network division's MTV Entertainment Group unit, based in Manhattan. The channel is geared towards young adults aged 18–34 and carries comedy programming in the form of both original, licensed, and syndicated series, stand-up comedy specials, and feature films. It is available to approximately 86.723 million households in the United States as of September 2018. Since the early 2000s, Comedy Central has expanded globally with localized channels in Europe (including the UK), India, Southeast Asia, Latin America, Australia and New Zealand, Middle East, and Africa. The international channels are operated by Paramount International Networks. History 1989–1991: Pre-launch as The Comedy Channel On November 15, 1989, Time-Life, the owners of HBO, launched The Comedy Channel as the first cable channel devoted exclusively to comedy-based programming. On April 1, 1990, Viacom (who o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Busboy Productions
Busboy Productions is a production company that was launched by Jon Stewart in the mid-1990s when he was known for hosting ''The Jon Stewart Show'' on MTV. In addition to Stewart, executive Chris McShane is in charge of development and production.Comedy Inks Deal With Stewart's Busboy Ad Week (February 15, 2005) retrieved on August 10, 2006 Name The name of the company is a reference to how Stewart worked as a in a Mexican restaurant as a young man. The company's vanity ca ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MTV Entertainment Studios
MTV Entertainment Studios is the film and television production arm of MTV Entertainment Group, a subsidiary of the Paramount Media Networks division of Paramount Global. Founded in 1991 as MTV Productions, it is a consolidation of the former MTV Films group established in 1996 and the MTV Production Development/MTV Studios group of 2003–2021, it has produced original television shows like ''Beavis and Butt-Head'', ''Æon Flux'', '' Jackass'', ''My Super Sweet 16'', ''Daria'', ''Celebrity Deathmatch'', ''Clone High'' and ''The Real World'' and films such as ''Election'', ''Joe's Apartment'' and ''Napoleon Dynamite''. Its films are released by fellow Paramount Global division Paramount Pictures. The MTV Films unit was once part of Paramount Players until 2020. History MTV Productions originally started in 1991, and went into expansion two years later, with Doug Herzog serving as president of the unit. Its expansion was to produce shows for theatrical release, broadcast TV and c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Comedy Partners
MTV Entertainment Studios is the film and television production arm of MTV Entertainment Group, a subsidiary of the Paramount Media Networks division of Paramount Global. Founded in 1991 as MTV Productions, it is a consolidation of the former MTV Films group established in 1996 and the MTV Production Development/MTV Studios group of 2003–2021, it has produced original television shows like ''Beavis and Butt-Head'', ''Æon Flux'', '' Jackass'', ''My Super Sweet 16'', ''Daria'', ''Celebrity Deathmatch'', ''Clone High'' and ''The Real World'' and films such as ''Election'', ''Joe's Apartment'' and ''Napoleon Dynamite''. Its films are released by fellow Paramount Global division Paramount Pictures. The MTV Films unit was once part of Paramount Players until 2020. History MTV Productions originally started in 1991, and went into expansion two years later, with Doug Herzog serving as president of the unit. Its expansion was to produce shows for theatrical release, broadcast TV and c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
One Astor Plaza
One Astor Plaza, also known as 1515 Broadway and formerly the W. T. Grant Building, is a 54-story office building on Times Square in the Theater District, Manhattan, Theater District of Midtown Manhattan in New York City. Designed by Der Scutt of Ely Jacques Kahn, Ely J. Kahn & Jacobs, the building was developed by Sam Minskoff and Sons. One Astor Plaza occupies a site bounded by Broadway (Manhattan), Broadway to the east, 45th Street to the north, Shubert Alley to the west, and 44th Street to the south. The building is named for the Hotel Astor (New York City), Hotel Astor, which had occupied the site from 1904 to 1967. SL Green Realty and Allianz own One Astor Plaza, which serves as the headquarters for Paramount Global (previously ViacomCBS). The building consists of a low base that occupies most of the site, as well as a tower section with smaller floor areas. The facade is designed in glass and stone, with large signs. The upper stories have dark glass windows, with stone m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paramount Global
Paramount Global (doing business as Paramount) is an American multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate owned and operated by National Amusements (79.4%) and headquartered at One Astor Plaza in Midtown Manhattan, New York. It was formed on December 4, 2019, as ViacomCBS Inc. through the re-merger of the second incarnation of CBS Corporation and the second incarnation of Viacom (which were split from the original incarnation of Viacom in 2006). On February 16, 2022, during its Q4 earnings presentation, the company announced that it would change its name to Paramount Global. Paramount's main properties include the namesake Paramount Pictures film and television studio, the CBS Entertainment Group (consisting of the CBS and The CW television networks, television stations, and other CBS-branded assets), media networks (consisting of U.S.-based cable television networks including MTV, Nickelodeon, BET, Comedy Central, VH1, CMT, Paramount Network and Showti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hudson Hotel
The Hudson New York was a boutique hotel located along West 58th Street (at Ninth Avenue), in the New York City borough of Manhattan. The hotel closed in November 2020 due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. History The Hudson New York was constructed in 1928 by Anne Morgan, daughter of J. P. Morgan, as the American Women's Association clubhouse and residence for young women in New York. It was completed in 1929. The building contained 1,250 rooms, along with a swimming pool, restaurant, gymnasium and music rooms along with a multitude of specialized meeting rooms. The American Women's Association went bankrupt in 1941 and the clubhouse building was converted into ''The Henry Hudson Hotel'', open to both men and women. During World War II the building housed Dutch soldiers. More recently, until 1997 the second through ninth floors served as the headquarters for public television station WNET; the ''MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour'' was broadcast from the building. WNET has since relocated ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
NEP Broadcasting
NEP Group, Inc. (formerly NEP Broadcasting LLC) is a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania based and privately owned international production company that provides outsourced teleproduction services for major events throughout the world. Its facilities are used to produce television broadcasts of the Indian Premier League, Cricket World Cup, Super Bowl, Academy Awards, Premier League, Eurovision Song Contest, Emmy Awards, The Daily Show, UEFA Champions League, Olympic Games, NASCAR, Asian Games, WWE Wrestling, FIFA World Cup, Wimbledon and French Open, Grammy Awards, U.S. Open, British Open, The People's Court, Sesame Street, The Rolling Stones, Page Six TV and Love Island (franchise). History The company was founded by Tom Shelburne in 1984 and was part of Scranton, Pennsylvania television station WNEP-TV (which stood for North East Pennsylvania). It was spun off after The New York Times Company bought the station in 1986 from Shelburne. The company took off after it acquired the failin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adam Lowitt
Adam Lowitt is an American standup comedian, a four-time Emmy-winning, 6 time nominated co-executive producer and supervising producer for the news satire program ''The Daily Show''. He performs regularly in New York and performed on Comedy Central as part of ''John Oliver's New York Stand-Up Show'' In 2012, Adam was selected to perform at the Just for Laughs Festival in Montreal as part of their New Faces Showcase. Adam often performs locally and has opened for other comedians he works with at ''The Daily Show''. Starting December 2015, he is a contributor on ''The Daily Show''. He was an Executive Producer on Sacha Baron Cohen's 2018 comedy series '' Who Is America?''. Awards Personal life Adam Lowitt went to Countryside High School in Clearwater, Florida and studied at the University of Florida. On September 13, 2014, Adam Lowitt married Becky Friedman. Becky is the head writer of Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood on PBS as well as a writer and editor for Out of the Blue Enterpris ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josh Lieb
Josh Lieb is a writer and television producer. He was the showrunner of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and executive producer of NewsRadio, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, and Pod Save America. He won seven Prime Time Emmy's as a producer and writer for The Daily Show. In 2009, he published a young adult novel, I Am A Genius of Unspeakable Evil and I Want to Be Your Class President, which was a New York Times Bestseller. In 2015, he published his second novel, Ratscalibur. His third book, Chapter Two is Missing, was released in October 2019. Lieb was raised in Columbia, South Carolina, and graduated from Harvard, where he was an editor of The Lampoon, the college humor magazine. After graduation, he found work writing for Twisted Puppet Theater, The Jon Stewart Show, and NewsRadio. He subsequently worked as a producer on many shows including The Simpsons, Drawn Together, What We Do in The Shadows, Silicon Valley, and Who is America? Lieb's tenure at The Daily Show las ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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