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Jon Stewart was born as Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz on November 28, 1962. Stewart is a well known American comedian, writer, pundit, satirist, actor, and producer. He has been well known as the host of Comedy Centrals The Daily Show and also for his political satire.

Stewart commenced his career as a stand-up comedian, but later deviated to television, and hosted Short Attention Span Theater for Comedy Central. Later, he went on to host his own show on MTV, which was called The Jon Stewart Show. He also hosted another show on MTV called You Wrote It, You Watch It.

Stewart became the host of The Daily Show on Comedy Central in early 1999. After Stewart joined, The Daily Show steadily gained popularity and critical acclaim leading to his first Emmy Award in 2001.

Stewart himself has also gained significant notoriety as a vocal, outspoken critic of the Bush administration and of personality-driven media shows, in particular the coverage of the U.S. news media networks CNN, Fox News Channel and MSNBC.

Critics say Stewart benefits from a double standard: he critiques other news shows from the safe, removed position of his fake news desk. Despite this and other criticisms, The Daily Show has been nominated for a number of news and journalism awards.

Stewart hosted the 78th Academy Awards and the 80th Academy Awards and is the co-author of America (The Book), which was one of the top best-selling books in the U.S in 2004.

With a reputation for being a funny man even in school, Jon Stewart moved to New York City in 1986 to try his hand at the comedy club circuit, but he could not muster the courage to get on stage until the following year.

Stewart made his stand-up debut at The Bitter End, the same place where his comedic idol, Woody Allen, began. He began using the stage name Jon Stewart by dropping his last name and changing the spelling of his middle name Stuart to Stewart.

In 1991, he began hosting Comedy Centrals Short Attention Span Theater. Later that year, Stewart developed his own talk show at MTV. The Jon Stewart Show was the first talk show on that network and was an instant hit, becoming the second highest-rated MTV show behind Beavis and Butt-head.

In 1994, Paramount pulled the plug on The Arsenio Hall Show and, with new corporate sibling MTV (through MTV parent Viacoms acquisition of the studio), launched an hour-long syndicated late-night version of The Jon Stewart Show.

Many local affiliates had moved Halls show to 2am during its decline and Stewarts show inherited such early morning time slots in many cities. Ratings were dismal and the show was canceled in June 1995.

Amongst the fans of the show was David Letterman, who was the final guest of The Jon Stewart Show. Letterman signed Stewart with his production company, Worldwide Pants. Stewart then became a frequent guest host for Tom Snyder on

The Late Late Show, which was produced by Letterman and aired after Late Show on CBS. This led to much speculation that Stewart would soon replace Snyder permanently, yet Stewart was instead offered the time slot after Snyder which he turned down.

Stewart and the rest of the members of The Daily Show have received two Peabody Awards: the first one for a piece covering the 2000 Presidential Elections entitled Indecision 2000, and another for covering the 2004 Presidential Elections entitled Indecision 2004.

Stewart was also named one of the 2005 Time 100, an annual list of 100 of the most influential people of the year by Time Magazine. Entertainment Weekly named Stewart as its ?Entertainer of the Year? for 2004.

In addition, Stewart and The Daily Show received the 2005 NCTE George Orwell Award for Distinguished Contribution to Honesty and Clarity in Public Language. Asteroid 116939 Jonstewart is named in his honor.

Stewart has hosted the Grammys twice, in 2001 and in 2002. When Stewart returned to host the next year, his comedy was more successful.

On January 5, 2006, Stewart was officially announced as the host of the 78th Academy Awards (Oscars), which were held at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood on March 5. Responding to press questions at the time of his selection, Stewart remarked: As a performer, Im truly honored to be hosting the show.