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Jon Stewart is to return as host of the Academy Awards. It will be the second time he has hosted the awards, having first done it in 2006. The 80th Academy Awards ceremony will be presented at the Kodak Theatre on February 24, 2008.
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Reactions to last night's announcement that Jon Stewart will host this year's Academy Awards ceremony seem to fall into three basic categories. Ever since the Envelope, the L.A. Times' Oscar-beat blog, broke the story Wednesday night,* the comments section of that site has been afire with increasingly loopy debate (all of it shot through with periodic denials that the writer could possibly care about anything so trivial as the Oscars). What's most striking about the reaction to the academy's choice of Stewart as host is how intense, and how immediately political, it's become. It's hard to imagine such a sustained and feverish discussion of most other likely choices for the gig: Whoopi Goldberg? Ellen DeGeneres?
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Remember when Jon Stewart took Tucker Carlson down a notch a couple of years ago on CNN’s Crossfire? Well, he did it again last night, this time to a very grumpy Hardball host Chris Matthews, calling his new tome a “self-hurt book.” When Matthews tried to defend his writings, Stewart brilliantly shot him down.
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NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Sure, Jon Stewart, the host of "The Daily Show," is celebrated as a quick-witted comic and a snappy interviewer. But beyond the quips, the King of All Fake Media ... has an uncommonly sophisticated understanding of journalism.
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Jon Stewart is getting a do-over as Oscar host. America's favorite faux newscaster, who drew mixed reviews for his first stint in 2006, has been picked for a return engagement in February, the film academy announced Wednesday.
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Unlike Kilborn, whose dialogue and character were written entirely by others, Stewart served not only as host but ... as a writer and co-executive producer of the series. His influence is noted for heading a significant shift in the way the show handled news. Stewart had a markedly different style, bringing a sharper political focus to the humor than the show previously exhibited. This satirical edge, combined with the show's 2000 election coverage, presciently dubbed "Indecision 2000", helped to catapult Stewart and The Daily Show to new levels of popularity and critical respect. With Stewart on board, the show has won ten Emmy Awards and two Peabody Awards, and its ratings more than doubled according to a 2003 Associated Press article.[2] By 2004, the show had emerged into a pop culture hit and one of the most popular programs on cable television.
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