AP: Jon Stewart Wins Thurber Prize for Humor

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Jon Stewart wins Thurber Prize for humor
From Associated Press
November 15, 2005 1:19 AM EST
NEW YORK - For a funny guy, Jon Stewart is starting to collect some serious prizes. Stewart, David Javerbaum and Ben Karlin won the 2005 Thurber Prize for American Humor for their book, "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Presents America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction."

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The award is named for James Thurber, an author, humorist and New Yorker magazine cartoonist who delighted readers for decades with his sharp wit and literary flair before his death in 1961.

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The Thurber Prize, started in 1996, is considered the nation's top award for humor writing.

The trio received the award Monday night at the Algonquin Hotel, the legendary spot where New Yorker writers, including Thurber, once gathered frequently to hold court.

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[DanCa]

1. you beat me too it. (nt)

[realisticphish]

2. Two of my favorite humorists

one posthumously honoring the other

[Hekate]

3. Best news program on tv, too. Take a bow, Jon.

:kick:

[applegrove]

4. Yeah - it is the best news show, the funniest show and the most honest

show.