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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsReport: Jon Stewart To Take Hiatus From ‘Daily Show,’ John Oliver To Serve As Guest Host
Jon Stewart will take a 12-week hiatus this summer to direct his first feature film, according to a report Tuesday in Deadline New York.
The report indicated that Stewart will use the time off to direct "Rosewater," which is based on the book Then They Came For Me: A Familys Story Of Love, Captivity And Survival.
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bluedigger
(17,086 posts)demwing
(16,916 posts)The Faculty was Stewarts showcase. Brilliant. Stunning
Gothmog
(145,321 posts)Oliver is only doing 8 weeks of new shows over the summer which is about par. Hopefully it will be a boring summer
Baitball Blogger
(46,736 posts)joeybee12
(56,177 posts)His segments are almost always great.
Initech
(100,080 posts)PennsylvaniaMatt
(966 posts)He is a great substitute!
sharp_stick
(14,400 posts)I hope he's up to it I'm looking forward to the result.
http://www.amazon.com/Then-They-Came-Me-Captivity/dp/1400069467
monmouth3
(3,871 posts)nana sew dear
(11 posts)But we can see J.O. on Hulu. Good luck to Jon and John.
Colorado Rambler
(40 posts)Oh, no! Twelve weeks without my evening Jon Stewart fix? Even Steve Colbert can't fill the resulting void. Going to have to make copies of The Daily Report to help me white knuckle thru June, July and August!
Matariki
(18,775 posts)Not at all a comedy. I'm looking forward to seeing what he does as a director.
liberal_at_heart
(12,081 posts)Tommy_Carcetti
(43,182 posts)....not sure if he'd be as good as the host.
Problem is, I can't see anyone but Jon Stewart hosting TDS. He is TDS and has always been TDS (all apologies to Craig Kilborn, wherever the hell he is.)
jollyreaper2112
(1,941 posts)I hated Stewart when he first came on the Daily. He's no Kilborn! I got out of the habit of watching until I started seeing clips online and I'm like "Wow, who's this new guy they got? Oh, that's the same Stewart I'd so erroneously dismissed?" Damn. I was right in that he's no Kilborn but I'm saying it in a whole different way now.
liberal_at_heart
(12,081 posts)He almost left. Once they started seeing those $$$, they let him and the writers loose.
michigandem58
(1,044 posts)Good luck to him.
pokerfan
(27,677 posts)Rider3
(919 posts)onehandle
(51,122 posts)LittleGirl
(8,287 posts)My british husband and I think Oliver is hilarious so hopefully, he can carry the show well. We love him just as much. I didn't find Jon Stewart until about 4 yrs ago and have not missed a show since. We don't have cable so watch on-line. Must see tv for us.
valerief
(53,235 posts)mahina
(17,668 posts)It's good to change it up to keep the creativity flowing. In any gig, shit gets old. Even the warrior Bill Moyers needed a break.
I hope this helps keeps him in the news game long term.
Shankapotomus
(4,840 posts)from this...He's that good, imho.
progressoid
(49,991 posts)"Rosewater," a fact based drama adapted from the book "Then They Came For Me: A Family's Story of Love, Captivity and Survival" by Maziar Bahari and Aimee Molloy.
For the Bahari family, wars, coups, and revolutions are not distant concepts but intimate realities they have suffered for generations: Maziars father was imprisoned by the shah in the 1950s, and his sister by Ayatollah Khomeini in the 1980s. Alone in his cell at Evin Prison, fearing the worst, Maziar draws strength from his memories of the courage of his father and sister in the face of torture, and hears their voices speaking to him across the years. He dreams of being with Paola in London, and imagines all that she and his rambunctious, resilient eighty-four-year-old mother must be doing to campaign for his release. During the worst of his encounters with Rosewater, he silently repeats the names of his loved ones, calling on their strength and love to protect him and praying he will be released in time for the birth of his first child.
A riveting, heart-wrenching memoir, Then They Came for Me offers insight into the past fifty years of regime change in Iran, as well as the future of a country where the democratic impulses of the youth continually clash with a government that becomes more totalitarian with each passing day. An intimate and fascinating account of contemporary Iran, it is also the moving and wonderfully written story of one familys extraordinary courage in the face of repression.
aquart
(69,014 posts)I can't watch torture and Evin? My Twitter profile still says Tehran because they asked us to use it to confuse the Iran government. My Twitter ID pic is a broken green heart. I was following some young people who are just gone.
I'm glad Stewart is doing this. But I can't watch it.