{"id":13023,"date":"2017-10-25T08:13:19","date_gmt":"2017-10-25T14:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=13023"},"modified":"2017-10-24T19:33:38","modified_gmt":"2017-10-25T01:33:38","slug":"book-20-of-52-the-daily-show-an-oral-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/book-20-of-52-the-daily-show-an-oral-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Book 20 (of 52) &#8211; The Daily Show: An Oral History"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_13035\" style=\"width: 334px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/dailyshow.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13035\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13035\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/dailyshow.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"324\" height=\"488\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/dailyshow.jpg 324w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/dailyshow-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 324px) 100vw, 324px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-13035\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Daily Show (The Book): An Oral History &#8211; Chris Smith<\/p><\/div>\n<p>On December 17, 1998, Craig Kilbon signed off from <em>The Daily Show<\/em> for the last time.\u00a0 The following January, a new host, looking to bounce back after a failed late night talk show earlier in his career, took over.\u00a0 16 years later, Jon Stewart said goodbye, changing the face of the show, and late night television, forever.\u00a0 For this history of Stewart&#8217;s time with the show, Chris Smith interviews Stewart, the correspondents, writers, producers, and guests that turned a late night spoof in to an Emmy-award winning juggernaut that is the longest running program in Comedy Central&#8217;s history.<\/p>\n<p>The history of the show covers all of the big news stories of the 21st century, from the disputed presidential election in 2000, to the 9\/11 attacks, to the election of Barack Obama in 2008 and the rise of Donald Trump as a serious(?) candidate in 2015.\u00a0 Smith gets stories from all of the contributors over the years, minus, of course, Kilborn.<\/p>\n<p>I was a fan of the show when it first premiered with Kilborn.\u00a0 When Stewart took over, I was just out of college and had lost track of the show, but eventually came back to it for the last few years.\u00a0 The spirit of the show lives on, with John Oliver and Samantha Bee doing similar shows on a weekly basis and, of course, Trevor Noah continuing the flagship.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On December 17, 1998, Craig Kilbon signed off from The Daily Show for the last time.\u00a0 The following January, a new host, looking to bounce back after a failed late night talk show earlier in his career, took over.\u00a0 16 years later, Jon Stewart said goodbye, changing the face of the show, and late night [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[2375,2647,7629,5714,2852,7140,840,5837,7630,3751,7628,7631],"class_list":["post-13023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-39","tag-2375","tag-barack-obama","tag-chris-smith","tag-comedy-central","tag-craig-kilborn","tag-donald-trump","tag-emmys","tag-john-oliver","tag-samantha-bee","tag-the-daily-show","tag-the-daily-show-the-book-an-oral-history","tag-trevor-noah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13023"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13037,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13023\/revisions\/13037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}