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Movie Director Jon Stewart Hands Over <em>The Daily Show</em> To John Oliver (Temporarily)
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Garth Johnston
Published Mar 5, 2013
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Those who hate waiting on those long three day waits between their Thursday and Monday Jon Stewart fixes on The Daily Show, we've got some bad news for you. Come this summer you are going to have wait a lot longer. Though the show won't be going anywhere, its beloved host will be.
Deadline is reporting that Jon Stewart will be taking a 12-week hiatus from the show that made him a household name in order to direct his first feature, Rosewater. Luckily it won't be hard to remember his replacement's name as it is the same (though spelled with an "h"). Yep, John Oliver (who we always secretly pray is actually from Minnesota and is just punking everyone with that British accent) will be filling in as host while Stewart is away. This could be fun!
So what is Stew-Beef's movie going to be about? It will be based on Maziar Bahari’s 2011 book Then They Came For Me: A Family’s Story Of Love, Captivity And Survival in which the author describes his experience spending 118 days in an Iranian prison in which the only thing he knew about his interrogator was that he smelled of Rosewater. Interested? Here's Bahari talking to Stewart about the book in 2011:
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