Six Degrees: Jon Stewart and the Oscars, take two
There are stories popping up here, there and everywhere about Jon and the Academy Awards, but I’m posting this one because it made me go, “Awwwwww …” before I’d even finished it. From the Los Angeles Times:
Jon Stewart: Come out early … own it
With no time to prep, the Oscar host is going for broke.
By Gina Piccalo, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
February 21, 2008
Jon Stewart and his team of “Daily Show” writers have just three days before Oscar night, but they’re working like real newsmen on a daily deadline — writing all day, then revising, then starting over and writing some more.. . .
When asked late Wednesday how close he was to finishing his monologue, Stewart offered one of his deadpan one-liners.
“We’ve got everything but the adverbs,” he said.
As he plowed through lemon cookies in his cramped backstage office at the Kodak Theatre, Stewart gamely showed off photos of his two children, aged 3 and-a-half and 2.
He’d just gotten off the phone with his youngest, Maggie, who was missing him so much that she insisted they speak on the phone. So while a clutch of TV crews awaited him, Stewart discussed the finer points of clementines with his toddler.
“It just kills you,” he said of being away from his kids.
But Stewart’s got a job to do and America — or Hollywood, anyway — is counting on his dry delivery and impish smirk to carry them through three and a half hours of exhaustive movie kudos.
Seriously, Stewart’s not too stressed — or at least he’s enough of a pro that he doesn’t look it — about this year’s abbreviated writing schedule. He and his team are used to tweaking his “Daily Show” copy right up to the minute he walks in front of the camera. And he’ll have a couple of writers waiting in the wings to do just that on Oscar night.
Still, the writers strike has limited the variety of his act a bit. There’s no time to do any pre-recorded segments. One segment he planned fell through last Friday. Now all his stuff will have to be live. (And, no, there will be no caustic banter with Stephen Colbert or jocular political attacks voiced by him.)
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I’m a little saddened (but not at all surprised) to see confirmation that Stephen will not be a part of this year’s Oscar extravaganza, but I wish Jon all the best. I’m sure it will be a success, and I hope it’s also something that he can really enjoy doing, leaving him with fun memories to take back to his family!
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