November 28, 1962
Talk-show host and comedian Jon Stewart born.
Stewart’s irreverent take on national and world events has been a huge hit with audiences and has even led some viewers to cite The Daily Show as their primary source of news.
Raised in Lawrenceville, New Jersey, Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz attended the College of William and Mary and after graduation began performing stand-up comedy at clubs in New York City. In 1991, he became host of Short Attention Span Theater on Comedy Central, which was followed in 1992 by You Wrote It, You Watch It on MTV. In 1993, he hosted a half-hour program, The Jon Stewart Show, also on MTV. A late-night, nationally syndicated version of the program launched the following year but was cancelled in 1995.
In January 1999, Stewart took over hosting duties of The Daily Show
from Craig Kilborn, who had hosted the show since its 1996 debut on Comedy
Central and left to replace Tom Snyder as host of The Late Late Show.
With Stewart in the anchor seat, The Daily Show typically opens with a
monologue about the day’s news stories, followed by a satirical report from one
of the program’s “fake news” correspondents. (Previous correspondents have
included Steve Carrell, who was a Daily Show regular from 1999 to 2004 and
went on to star in such movies as The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Little Miss
Sunshine and Get Smart and the NBC sitcom The Office. Another
Daily Show correspondent, Stephen Colbert, left the program in 2005 to
launch his own spin-off, The Colbert Report.) During the final
segment of the half-hour Daily Show, Stewart conducts interviews with
politicians, authors, Hollywood celebrities or other newsmakers. The Daily
Show has won multiple Emmy Awards, and in 2004 Stewart and his writing
staff released a best-selling mock-history textbook titled America (The
Book): A Citizen’s Guide to Democracy Inaction.
In addition to hosting The Daily Show, Stewart served as master of
ceremonies for Hollywood’s biggest annual event, the Academy Awards, in 2006
and 2008. His own movie career, which includes appearances in Playing by
Heart (1998), The Faculty (1998) and Big Daddy (1999),
has yet to win him any Oscars. On The Daily Show, Stewart has mocked his
roles in such box-office bombs as 2001’s Death to Smoochy.
November 28, 1997
The final episode of "Beavis and Butt-head"
aired on MTV.
November 30, 1927
Robert Guillaume is born Robert Peter Williams.
The stage and television actor, known for his role as Benson on the TV-series Soap and the spin-off Benson, voicing the mandrill Rafiki in The Lion King and as Isaac Jaffe on Sports Night. In a career that has spanned more than 50 years he has worked extensively on stage (including a Tony Award nomination), television (including winning two Emmy Awards), and film.December 4, 1937
Max Baer Jr. is born.
Baer was born Maximilian Adalbert Baer Jr. in Oakland, California, the son of boxing champion Max Baer and his wife Mary Ellen Sullivan. His father was of German, Jewish and Scots-Irish descent. His brother and sister are James Manny Baer (1941–2009) and Maude Baer (b. 1943). His uncle was boxer and actor Buddy Baer.Actor, screenwriter, producer, and director. He is best known for playing Jethro Bodine on The Beverly Hillbillies.
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