The Daily Show: An Oral History as Told by Jon Stewart, the Correspondents, Staff and Guests
Author: Chris Smith
The complete, uncensored history of the award-winning The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, as told by its correspondents, writers, and host. For almost seventeen years, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart brilliantly redefined the borders between television comedy, political satire, and opinionated news coverage. It launched the careers of some of today’s most significant comedian….Read More
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Skinned
Lia Kahn was perfect: rich, beautiful, popular -- until the accident that nearly killed her. Now she has been downloaded into a new body that only looks human. Lia will… Continue Reading
Earth (The Book): A Visitor’s Guide to the Human Race
The eagerly awaited new book from the Emmy-winning, Oscar-hosting, Daily Show-anchoring Jon Stewart--the man behind the megaseller America (The Book). Where do we come from? Who created us? Why are… Continue Reading Posted in: Earth, Human Behavior, Life
Naked Pictures of Famous People
In these nineteen whip-smart essays, Jon Stewart takes on politics, religion, and celebrity with a seethingly irreverent wit, a brilliant sense of timing, and a palate for the obsurd --… Continue Reading Posted in: American Essays, Essays, Humorous American Literature
Holy Cow
A rollicking, globe-trotting adventure with a twist: a four-legged heroine you won't soon forgetElsie Bovary is a cow, and a pretty happy one at that-her long, lazy days are spent… Continue Reading Posted in: Cows, Domestic Animals
Live from New York: An Oral History of Saturday Night Live
WHEN A YOUNG WRITER named Lorne Michaels talked NBC executives into taking a chance on a new weekend late-night comedy series, nobody really knew what to expect-not even Michaels. But… Continue Reading Posted in: Saturday Night Live (Television Program)
The Poems of Catullus
Of all Greek and Latin poets Catullus is perhaps the most accessible to the modern reader. Dealing candidly with the basic human emotions of love and hate, his virile, personal… Continue Reading Posted in: Linguistics (Books), Linguistics Reference
America (The Book): A Citizen’s Guide to Democracy Inaction
Jon Stewart, host of the Emmy and Peabody Award-winning The Daily Show, and his coterie of patriots, deliver a hilarious look at American government.American-style democracy is the world's most beloved… Continue Reading Posted in: History, Politics And Government, United States
A River in Darkness: One Man’s Escape from North Korea
An Amazon Charts Most Read and Most Sold book.The harrowing true story of one man’s life in—and subsequent escape from—North Korea, one of the world’s most brutal totalitarian regimes.Half-Korean, half-Japanese,… Continue Reading Posted in: Anthropology, Cultural, Cultural Anthropology (Books), Political, Social Activist Biographies
I Am America (And So Can You!)
Congratulations--just by opening the cover of this book you became 25% more patriotic.From Stephen Colbert, the host of television's highest-rated punditry show The Colbert Report, comes the book to fill… Continue Reading Posted in: Biography, Etc.), Humour, Satire
Worstward Ho (Beckett Shorts Vol 4)
The second last prose text, Worstward Ho, the latter is a novella written in 1983, shortly after the largely autobiographical Company and an ironic theological speculation, both previously published as… Continue Reading Posted in: Classic Literature & Fiction
The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made
From the actor who lived through the most improbable Hollywood success story, with an award-winning narrative nonfiction writer, comes the inspiring, fascinating and laugh-out-loud story of a mysteriously wealthy outsider… Continue Reading Posted in: Arts & Literature, Popular Culture, Social Sciences
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