How they were able to put together these great pieces showing how a politician literally contradicted a previous speech way before anyone else was doing this and way before YouTube. It was very interesting to hear about the process that it took to make The Daily Show happen. He wanted them to be as much a part of the show as he was. How he really wanted to help his staff learn to be who they wanted on the air. How he stood behind all of his staff during some really tough times, like writer strikes and personality conflicts. How Jon became the leader of these people. About how what they were reporting on changed them as people and what they wanted to do with the show. How they kept trying new things and how much those things worked. Listening to the history as told by Stephen Colbert, Steve Carell, Mo Rocca, Sam Bee, Lewis Black and more. I really loved listening to how Jon took on the show and really made it his own and the great show that it is today. Like, “Jon behind news desk” or “Larry off to Jon’s right looking at ceiling” or even “hesitant laughter from the audience”. There are also a lot of pieces of transcripts of the show with a description of what you would be seeing if you were watching. So as you listen, there is one narrator who would read the speaking person’s name, title and timeframe, “Jon Stewart, The Daily Show host, 1999-2015” and then a different narrator would speak the quote that Jon says. Mostly, this book is told with quotes from the different producers, the correspondents, writers, contributors and even some guests, like John McCain, Dennis Leary, Glenn Beck and more. There were several people from Kilborn’s team that stays on with Stewart and not just through the transition. I’m pretty sure there isn’t a single quote from Kilborn in this book (if there was, it was very few).
While the show talks about Craig Kilborn, it is more in the aspects of the transition to Jon Stewart. I do know that the Colbert Report was on when I started recording and watching on a regular basis, since I started with both of the them on regular basis.Īnyway, this book is pretty much the oral story of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. I’m always a day behind since I won’t stay up to watch it.Įver since I started listening to this, I’ve been trying to remember exactly when I became a regular watcher of the show. The invention of the DVR has made it much easier for me to watch, as I’m not a late night person.
I watched it after Jon Stewart took over, but it did take me a while to become a regular watcher. I’ve watched it off and on going back to Craig Kilborn, though I’ll admit that I didn’t watch it a lot back then.
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