Six Degrees: Hot Zone Edition.

G’day Zoners, I hope you’ve all made it through the heatwave. Over in my necks of the woods in the great land down under we’ve just come out of some form of mini mid-winter ice age. The mercury decide that it wanted stay between -5C – 10C for an entire week. Now I know that 10C is really classified as cold for the majority of our Northern Zoners but 105F is really classified as hot in Australia, but you’re more than welcome to send the sun back down our way and thaw us all out. For those of you unlucky enough to still be stuck in unfavourable weather conditions, we’ve got a great batch of Six Degrees news to get your through until Mother Nature settles down and Stephen’s bright smile returns to our TV screens. Enjoy!!

And now it’s time to check in with our good friends over at The Daily Show

The Daily Show

• Congratulations to the team from The Daily Show who have received 5 Emmy Award nominations.
  
  Outstanding Directing for a Variety, Music or Comedy Series.
  Chuck O’Neil Episode #15054 (Bernie Goldberg Fires Back)
  
  Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Series.
  The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
  
  Outstanding Technical Direction, Camerawork, Video Control for a Series.
  Episode #15032 (Chatroulette)
  
  Outstanding Writing for a Variety, Music of Comedy Series.
  Episode #15040 (Glen Beck has Nazi Tourette’s)

“The Daily Show and Friends”

• Rory Albanese, Rob Riggle, Adam Lowitt and Wyatt Cenac will be performing at Meadow Brook Music Festival on Friday, August 13 at 8 p.m.
  
  Tickets: $29.50 and $19.50.

The Daily Show Staff

• The Daily Show staff continue their domination of the office softball scene with an 8 – 3 victory over the Vanity Fair Veefers.

Aasif Mandvi

• Aasif is the featured artist in the A.V Club’s “Random Role” in which Aasif talks about his acting career, from his new film “The Last Airbender” to his numerous appearances on “Law & Order” and it’s many spin-offs.

• Aasif talks to GQ about balancing his role as a correspondant on The Daily Show with his role as the villan “Commander Zhao” in “The Last Airbender” (h/t wren).
  
  
  

  Jon Stewart needs to get himself an action figure.
  I’m going to taunt him with mine. Every time he calls me in for a meeting, I’m going to have somebody come in with my action figure and just put it on his desk: “Aasif and his emissary are here.” My action figure is the same height as Jon Stewart actually, so they can talk face-to-face.

• Daily Show Exclusive: Aasif Mandiv on “The Last Airbender”
  
  

  The Daily Show With Jon Stewart	Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c
  Exclusive – Aasif Mandvi on The Last Airbender
  www.thedailyshow.com
  Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Tea Party

Demetri Martin

• Demetri will be performing at Meadow Brook Music Festival on July 17 at 8 p.m.
  
  Tickets: $39.50 and $15.

Ed Helms

• Ed recently joined Josh Ritter on stage at the Fly Me to the Moon Saloon at Telluride Colarado, where they performed “Last to the Next Romantic” after hours at the 37th Telluride Bluegrass Festival.
  
  

John Hodgman

• John recently appeared on Minnesota Public Radio presents Wits™ – An Examination of Diversions, Distractions, and Hey Look at That Thing Over There with John Hodgman and hosted by John Moe.

  
  

Mo Rocca

• Mo’s latest CBS Sunday Morning looks into the world of “Man Spanx and the Mirdle” (man girdle).
  
  

Olivia Munn

• The New York Times has a great article profiling Olivia’s career, which includes her role a co-host on G4′s “Attack of the Show!”, a starring role on NBC’s new show “Perfect Couples” to her newest role as a Daily Show correspondant.
  
  “I’m Not a French Maid, I Just Play One on TV” (h/t wren).

• Olivia talks to Vanity Fair about her new book “Suck It, Wonder Women: The Misadventures of a Hollywood Geek”, what it’s like working with Jon and addresses the recent comments made about herself and other women in comedy.

Paul Mecurio

• Paul will be performing at San Francisco’s Punchline Comedy Club from Wednesday, July 14 to Saturday, July 17 at 8:00 and 10:00PM.
  
  Tickets: $15

Steve Carell

• Congratulations to Steve and The Office who have received 4 Emmy Award nominations.
  
  Oustanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series.
  Steve Carell
  
  Outstanding Comedy Series.
  The Office
  
  Outstanding Sound Mixing For A Comedy Or Drama Series (Half-Hour) And Animation .
  Ben Patrick, John W. Cook and Peter J. Nusbaum
  
  Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series.
  Greg Daniels and Mindy Karling

• Steve is listed as #78 on Forbes – “The Celebrity 100″.

• Steve wil be a guest on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson on Monday July 26th, 2010.

• Steve was recently a guest on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno to promote his new film “Despicable Me”.
  
  
  
  Part II: [Link]

  Part III: [Link]

  In reference to the clip posted above – Steve won the Golden Nymph Award for “Outstanding Actor” for his role as Michael Scott on “The Office” (NBC) at the Monte-Carlo Television Festival.

• A nice message from Ricky Gervais on Steve’s depature from The Office:
  
  

  From: RickyGervais.com

  Well it’s official. Steve Carell will leave The Office after this next season. It was of course inevitable (and sad), but I wish him all the luck in the world. He is quite possibly the nicest, hardest working man in America and it has been a joy working with him over the last six years. (And taking the piss out of him at every award show.)

  It was expected of me, as executive producer, to persuade him to stay on. With syndication in full swing the more successful the show remains, the more billions we all make. It was tempting, but the truth is, I believe he is doing the right thing. He’s fulfilled his contract and more, and is a huge film star now. (I knocked it on the head after 12 episodes and a Christmas special.) I’d be lying if I said he should do more. He shouldn’t. He should move on, continue to do great work, and buy a new house every time The Office is repeated somewhere. (That’s what I do. Maybe I’ll buy one next door to him one day. That’ll fucking teach him.)

  Good Luck Steve.

Rob Riggle

• Rob will be performing at the Indiana University on Friday, September 10 at 8:PM.
  
  Tickets: $15 – $27.50.

Rory Albanese

• Rory answers questions sent in by the readers TVSquad, including; how they piece together those perfect montages and what an average day at The Daily Show is like.

Wyatt Cenac

• Wyatt will be performing at the Pitchfork Music Festival at Chicago’s Union Park on Friday, July 16 at 6.30 p.m.
  
  Tickets: $40.

The Colbert Report Staffers [and beloved ex-Staffers]

Mark Malkoff, Opus Moreschi and Peter Gwinn

• Mark, Opus and Peter will be appearing at World Record Appreciation Society #17 at Joe’s Pub in New York on July 27 at 9:00PM.
  
  Tickets: $12

Tim Meadows

• Tim recently stopped by The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson to talk about his new film “Grown Ups” co-staring Adam Sandler, Chris Rock, David Spade, Kevin James and Rob Scheinder
  
  

Friends of the Show

Conan O’Brien

• Congratulations to Conan and the team from the The Tonight Show who have received 4 Emmy Award nominations.
  
  Outstanding Writing for a Variety, Music of Comedy Series.
  Episode #146 (The Final Show)
  
  Outstanding Art Direction For Variety, Music Or Nonfiction Programming.
  Episode #1.1
  
  Outstanding Directing for a Variety, Music or Comedy Series.
  Allan Kartun #146 (The Final Show)
  
  Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Series.
  The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien

• Conan is listed as #51 on Forbes – “The Celebrity 100″.

David Sedaris

• David will be appearing at Massey Hall n Toronto, Canada on Saturday, October 2 at 8:00PM.
  
  Tickets: $143.

• David will be appearing at Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre on Thursday, Ocotober 7 at 7.30PM in Atlanta, Georgia.
  
  Tickets: $37 – $47.

• Catch David in “An Evening with David Sedaris” at the Proctor and Gamble Hall in Cincinnat, Ohio on Sunday, October 10 at 7:00PM.
  
  Tickets: $29 – $46

Jeff Goldblum

• Broadway Buzz talks to Jeff about starring in the West End revival of Neil Simon’s “The Prisoner of Second Avenue”.