The Daily Show
The Daily Show (formerly The Daily Show with Craig Kilborn, currently The Daily Show with Jon Stewart) is a half-hour satirical "fake news" program produced by and run on the Comedy Central cable television network in the United States. The show has four new episodes a week, Monday through Thursday (although the program will occasionally go on hiatus for one or two weeks at a time), and an edited version of the show is run outside of the U.S. on CNN International once a week (The Weekly Daily Show). The weekly four-episode run is broadcast in Canada on the CTV network, each night at midnight.
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The Daily Show was originally hosted by Craig Kilborn, but he left to take over The Late Late Show on CBS in 1999. Jon Stewart is the current host. The show's format generally consists of "Headlines", "Other News", correspondent pieces, and interviews.
The "Headlines" and "Other News" segments are similar to monologues on other late-night television programs, poking fun at the day's news. Sometimes, the show puts their news correspondents "on location" for remotes, but the correspondents are usually just standing in the studio with a bluescreened backdrop. While generally no note is made of this fact, it is occasionally the subject of jokes, such as a correspondent supposedly being on a press base on Mars to observe the landing of a rover.
Correspondent pieces involve the correspondents actually traveling to a remote location to make a report or interview people important to the story.
Some segments occur periodically, such as "Mark Your Calendar", "Ed Helms' Digital Watch", "Back in Black" with Lewis Black, and "This Week in God". Each show ends with a "Moment of Zen" (the version on CNN International ends with the "International Moment of Zen"), which is a short, usually humorous, video clip. Most of the time, it is an extended clip from one of the stories aired during the show, but sometimes it is just a strange video pulled down from the newswires.
Interviews usually take place toward the end of the show, and are most frequently of actors, musicians, and authors, although people important in political circles have often been guests as well:
The Daily Show frequently makes fun of establishment television news sources, notably the cable news channels CNN, MSNBC, and Fox News Channel.
The staff of The Daily Show won a Peabody Award for their "Indecision 2000" coverage of the 2000 Presidential Election. In 2003, the staff won Emmy Awards for Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Series, and for Outstanding Writing for a Variety, Music or Comedy Program.
The show's theme music is "Dog on Fire" by Bob Mould, performed by They Might Be Giants.
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Interviews
Senator John Edwards first announced his candidacy for the 2004 Presidential Election on The Daily Show.Correspondents
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