Jon Stewart Wikipedia. Jon Stewart. Birth name. Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz. Sonic Allstar Racing Game For Pc. Born1. 96. 2 1. November 2. New York City, U. Celebrate World Space Week 2017 by downloading this free colorful PDF poster which is available in two resolutions in eight languages. Learn about other new worlds at. S. Medium. Stand up, television, film, books. Education. Lawrence High School. Alma mater. College of William Mary. Years active. 19. Philly. com is your source for all Philadelphia news. Check out 24hour breaking news, sports, weather, entertainment and more. Genres. Politicalnews satire, observational comedy, physical comedy, blue comedy, insult comedy, deadpan1SubjectsMass medianews mediamedia criticism, American politics, Jewish culture, current events, pop culture. Spouse. Tracey Mc. Shane m.  2. 00. 0Children. Jon Stewart born Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz, November 2. American comedian, writer, producer, political commentator, actor, and television host. He is best known for being the host of The Daily Show, a satirical news program on Comedy Central, from 1. Stewart started as a stand up comedian, but branched into television as host of Short Attention Span Theater for Comedy Central. He went on to host his own show on MTV, The Jon Stewart Show, and then hosted You Wrote It, You Watch It, also on MTV. He has also had several film roles as an actor, but has done few cinematic projects since becoming the host of The Daily Show in 1. Daily Show 09 25 2013' title='Daily Show 09 25 2013' />He was also a writer and co executive producer of the show. After Stewart joined, The Daily Show steadily gained popularity and critical acclaim, and during his tenure, The Daily Show won 2. Primetime Emmy Awards. Stewart is known as an acerbic, satirical critic of personality driven media shows, in particular those of the U. S. media networks such as CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC. Critics say Stewart benefits from a double standard he critiques other news shows from the safe, removed position of his news satire desk. Stewart agrees, saying that neither his show nor his channel purports to be anything other than satire and comedy. In spite of its self professed entertainment mandate, The Daily Show has been nominated for news and journalism awards. Stewart hosted the 7. Academy Awards. He is the co author of America The Book A Citizens Guide to Democracy Inaction, which was one of the best selling books in the U. S. in 2. 00. 4,4 and Earth The Book A Visitors Guide to the Human Race, released in 2. Tcp Ip Patch Windows 7 64 Bit. Early life. Jon Stewart was born Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz on November 2. New York City, to Marian ne Laskin, a teacher and later educational consultant,5 and Donald Leibowitz, a professor of physics at The College of New Jersey and Thomas Edison State College. Stewarts family are Litvak Jews who emigrated to America from Poland, Ukraine and Belarus. One of his grandfathers was born in Manzhouli now part of Inner Mongolia. He is the second of four sons, with older brother Lawrence1. Dan and Matthew. 8Stewarts parents divorced when he was eleven years old, and Stewart was largely estranged from his father. Because of his strained relationship with his father, which in 2. Stuart. Stewart stated, There was a thought of using my mothers maiden name, but I thought that would be just too big a fuck you to my dad. Did I have some problems with my father Yes. Yet people always view changing my surname through the prism of ethnic identity. He had his surname legally changed to Stewart in 2. Stewart and his brother Lawrence, who was previously the Chief Operating Officer of NYSE Euronext parent company of the New York Stock Exchange,1. Lawrenceville, New Jersey, where they attended Lawrence High School. According to Stewart, he was subjected to anti Semiticbullying as a child. He describes himself in high school as very into Eugene Debs and a bit of a leftist. Stewart grew up in the era of the Vietnam War and the Watergate scandal, which inspired in him a healthy skepticism towards official reports. His first job was working at a Woolworths at which his brother Lawrence worked, and jokingly describes being fired by Lawrence as one of the scarring events of his youth. Stewart graduated in 1. College of William Mary in Virginia, where he played on the soccer team and initially majored in chemistry before switching to psychology. While at William Mary, Stewart became a brother of the Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity,1. My college career was waking up late, memorizing someone elses notes, doing bong hits, and going to soccer practice, he would later recall. His soccer coach would later describe him as a good player with high energy. After college, Stewart held numerous jobs a contingency planner for the New Jersey Department of Human Services, a contract administrator for the City University of New York, a puppeteer for children with disabilities, a soccer coach at Gloucester High School in Virginia, a caterer, a busboy, a shelf stocker at Woolworths, a bartender at the Franklin Corner Tavern a local blue collar bar, and a bartender at the legendary City Gardens in Trenton, New Jersey. He has said that working at City Gardens was a pivotal moment for him finding this place City Gardens was like, Oh, maybe Im not a giant weirdo. Maybe there are other people who have a similar sense of yearning for something other than what they have now. I think it inspired a lot of people, man. It was a very creative environment. It was a place of great possibility. Career. Early work. With a reputation for being a funny man in school,52. Jon Stewart returned to New York City in 1. He made his stand up debut at The Bitter End, where his comedic idol, Woody Allen, also began. He began using the stage name Jon Stewart by dropping his last name and changing the spelling of his middle name Stuart to Stewart. He often jokes this is because people had difficulty with the pronunciation of Leibowitz or it sounded too Hollywood a reference to Lenny Bruces joke on the same theme. He has implied that the name change was actually due to a strained relationship with his father, with whom Stewart no longer had any contact. Stewart became a regular at the Comedy Cellar, where he was the last performer every night. For two years, he would perform at 2 a. In 1. 98. 9, Stewart landed his first television job as a writer for Carolines Comedy Hour. In 1. 99. 0, he began co hosting Comedy Centrals Short Attention Span Theater, with Patty Rosborough. In 1. 99. 2, Stewart hosted the short lived You Wrote It, You Watch It on MTV, which invited viewers to send in their stories to be acted out by the comedy troupe, The State. Stewart felt his career did not take off until a March 1. Play Spice And Wolf Game. NBCs Late Night with David Letterman. He was considered a finalist to take over Lettermans position upon his departure from the program, but it was instead given to relatively unknown Conan OBrien. The Jon Stewart Show. Later in 1. 99. 3, Stewart developed The Jon Stewart Show, a talk show on MTV. The Jon Stewart Show was the first talk show on that network and was an instant hit, becoming the second highest rated MTV show behind Beavis and Butt head. In 1. 99. 4, Paramount canceled The Arsenio Hall Show and, with new corporate sibling MTV through MTV parent Viacoms acquisition of the studio, launched an hour long syndicated late night version of The Jon Stewart Show. Many local affiliates had moved Halls show to 2 a. Stewarts show inherited such early morning time slots in many cities. Ratings were dismal and the show was canceled in June 1. Among the fans of the show was David Letterman, who was the final guest of The Jon Stewart Show.