live taping are spent rewriting chunks of the script that didn't work during the dress rehearsal, or adding material that the staff has found between writing sessions. The day basically goes as sort of a little dance between writing and rewriting and including all of the other elements - graphics and other things.' Then we go over the notes of how we're going to attack it. And those writing assignments are usually coming back in at 11:30, at which point we begin to read them. 'And we take that and we start to knit it together for writing assignments. 'The 9 o'clock is to kind of rehash the analysis we were going over the night before, to see if the premises and hypotheses we came up with the night before have come to pass, and what's the video evidence,' Stewart says. They go over all of the previous day's top news stories and how they've been covered by the 24-hour news channels and other news programs. And by doing that, it gives us the freedom to improvise.'Įach day at 9 a.m., Stewart sits with his writers and producers. and decide what to do, we have a very strict day that we have to adhere to. 'People say, The Daily Show, you guys just sit around and make jokes,' but to weed through all of this material. 'You'd be incredibly surprised at how regimented our day is and how the infrastructure of the show is mechanized,' he says.

29 at the 92nd Street Y in New York City. Terry Gross interviewed Jon Stewart on Sept. What a beautiful structure to fill with what we want to express in live form, festival form.' What it is was, we saw that and thought, 'What a beautiful outline. People have said, 'It's a rally to counter Glenn Beck.' It's not. to be filled with the type of material that Stephen and I do and the point of view. 'It's merely a format, in the way the book is a format, a show is a format. 'Like everything that we do, the march is merely a construct,' he says. 29 in front of a live audience at New York City's 92nd Street Y to discuss his time on The Daily Show, his role in the media, and the upcoming rally - which is being billed as 'Woodstock, but with the nudity and drugs replaced by respectful disagreement.'

Stewart sat down with Terry Gross on Sept. Called 'The Rally to Restore Sanity' and the 'March to Keep Fear Alive,' respectively, the two rallies closely mimic Glenn Beck's recent 'Restoring Honor Rally,' also held in Washington, D.C. 30, comedians Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert will host dueling rallies on the National Mall. In July 2009, Time magazine held an online poll asking who America's most trusted newscaster was Jon Stewart won with 44 percent of the vote.

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