So we know that everyone in the world is covering the end of Jon Stewart’s The Daily Show today. We know that you’ve probably already listened to an hour or two of radio about Jon Stewart on this very station today.
But the thing is, we’re gonna miss Jon Stewart too.
So we’re doing a special edition of The Nose about Stewart today anyway. And we’ll tread some ground that other people have trod. We’ll talk about Stewart as media watchdog, as government watchdog, as professional arguer. We’ll talk about how he toed the line between comedy and journalism. We’ll talk about his brilliant use of tape to construct his own argument or to deconstruct someone else’s.
But we’ll try to go some places other people haven’t gone too. We’ll talk about Stewart’s pure comedic chops, the way he uses his face, the way he uses his voice. We’ll talk about what Stewart does with language and catch phrases… and even bleeps. We’ll talk about how Jon Stewart maybe actually isn’t the world’s greatest interviewer.
And we’ll spend a chunk of time talking about The Daily Show’s preproduced bits, their field pieces, with a field producer who put together https://vimeo.com/78226318">some https://vimeo.com/72766306">of https://vimeo.com/43645826">our https://vimeo.com/43873173">favorites.
And we’ll do all of that in one way that (almost) no one else is: with Bill Curry.
GUESTS:
- Bill Curry – himself
- David Folkenflik – media correspondent, NPR News
- Miles Kahn – field producer, The Daily Show, 2006–2015
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Betsy Kaplan and Colin McEnroe contributed to this show.
