Jon Stewart
☼ Born on 28 December 1962, in New York City, New York, USA
BiographyJon Stewart was born Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz in New York City, New York, to Marian (Laskin), a teacher, and Donald Leibowitz, a physics professor. His family is Ashkenazi Jewish (from Austria, Ukraine, Poland, and Belarus). Stewart moved to Lawrenceville, New Jersey during his childhood. He graduated from the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, in 1984. He made his breakthrough on The Larry Sanders Show (1992), where he had a role playing himself, the oft-timed "Guest Host" of "The Larry Sanders Show". He became as much a part of the show's fabric as some of the regular performers.
In the 2000s, Stewart emerged as a bona fide television personality with his ascension to host of The Daily Show (1996)/Comedy Central, taking over for Craig Kilborn in 1999. Audiences have embraced his sarcastic, sardonic and incisive sense of humor, covering politics and other news stories.
Stewart and his wife, Tracey, have two children.
In the role of actor
Daddy (28/05/2020)
A former anthropologist reflects on his life as a stay at home father in Daddy. Brendan Cooney is a former anthropologist and journalist, who moved to Copenhagen after meeting and marrying his wife Ida. Unable to find a job due to the inability to speak Danish, Brendan settles for a life a stay-at-home father to his […]
Tickling Giants (13/07/2017)
At doctor turned political satirist receives backlash from the Egyptian regime in Tickling Giants. In the wake of the 2011 Arab Spring, Egyptian heart surgeon Bassem Youssef decided to respond to biased media coverage of the uprising by creating his own satirical news program in the style of Jon Stewart‘s The Daily Show. Beginning as YouTube […]
The Adjustment Bureau (06/03/2011)
The Adjustment Bureau is the latest of many films based on a story by science fiction author Philip K. Dick. The film is about a young politician, who accidently finds out that all of humanity’s path through life are controlled by a group of fedora-wearing agents that will go to any extreme to make sure that […]