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It is the same language I am more accustomed to speaking.” But in some respects, Rosewater is quite a departure, because it isn’t comedy, and it certainly isn’t fake. It’s a film with a heavy message and scenes depicting fear and torture. Nevertheless, there are moments of humor. “One of the things that really appealed to me about Maziar’s memoir was his ability as a journalist and individual to retain his sense of humor and his sense of absurdity of what was happening. You will be surprised if you watch the movie, because there are big laughs in it in some very tough mo“THE REAL GOAL IN MAKING ments.” Bahari [THE MOVIE] WAS TRYING praises StewTO DO JUSTICE TO THE BOOK. art’s efforts in IT WAS WITH AN EYE ON telling his story NOT SCREWING THAT UP.” and calls him “a natural-born —JON STEWART director.” “Jon Stewart is one of the few people that I have met on television who really thinks, who really tries to analyze issues,” Bahari says. “He is someone who doubts everything, and that is the most important thing.” Stewart with journalist and But Stewart author Maziar Bahari quickly brushes off any notions that he’s done anything special by making a movie, especially a movie about someone who’s truly done something special, something heroic, someone who bravely put himself in harm’s way to report the news, to tell the truth—and suffered greatly for it. “It doesn’t take any courage to make a movie,” he says. “There are parts of the world where that type of expression you can’t take for granted—there are a lot of countries where making a film like this would take courage. It just so happens that we’re fortunate enough to be in a place where that isn’t an issue. I try to keep that in perspective.” NOVEMBER 23, 2014 | 13

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into true wit. “It was more about becoming more comfortable in my own skin than it was learning the tools of humor. My life has been an attempt to move from ‘What are you doing?’ to ‘Clever retort, young man.’ ”

standing, believing that by taking what some would consider a risk by doing something that may seem out of line with people’s expectations for you, you can change your unhappiness into something more positive.”

After graduating from college in 1984 and working as a contingency planner for the 4 New Jersey Department of Human Services, he decided to move to New York in 1986 to pursue a career in comedy, even though he had never performed a stand-up routine. It was, he says, the greatest decision he ever made. “In general, it is that sense of believing that you can actively change your

1. Stewart made the list of People magazine’s “50 Most Beautiful People” in 1999 | 2. He hosted the Academy Awards twice, in 2006 and 2008 | 3. With his Emmy Award-winning Comedy Central Daily Show cast | 4. Filming Rosewater

Although he studied the work of comedy legends like Richard Pryor and George Carlin, it was his contemporaries—Ray Romano, Denis Leary, Louis C.K., Colin Quinn, and Nick DiPaolo—who influenced him the most, “not even in terms of comedy, but just in terms of support and camaraderie.” His stand-up act led to television gigs, including MTV’s first talk show, The Jon Stewart Show, and later a syndicated show of the same name, as well as spots in TV shows and movies. He became host of The Daily Show in 1999. Along the way, he was considered as a replacement for Tom Snyder and David Letterman, and as the host of a new show to lead into Nightline, but those positions never materialized. “There is not a part of me that wishes a different path, along with all of the difficulties,” he says. “I feel like if you change any of it, it wouldn’t work out the way it did. So I don’t have any kind of wistful regret or notions about anything.” Instead, he keeps himself challenged creatively with The Daily Show, which has won 19 Emmys, and by writing several best-selling books, hosting the Academy Awards, forming a production company that developed The Colbert Report, and now directing his first movie. “I really enjoyed it,” he says of directing. “It isn’t an alien process to what I do normally. I think that in general, I really like the challenge of trying to tell stories in different ways. It would be different if I had written a song. continued on page 13

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when you are trying to get attention and break tension, you can be generally obnoxious,” he says. Humor was a way to distract the bigger boys from teasing him about his small stature or his Jewish ancestry. In retrospect, perhaps this is where his love of the underdog was born. “Humor is a tool of last resort,” he says. “If you don’t have power, you might as well make jokes. It is used as an emotional leveler to some extent.” But he stops short of considering himself an underdog in those days. “I felt overmatched. That’s probably a better word than underdog,” he says. “I am sure there are people who grew up with a tremendous amount of confidence—I was not one of them.” Stewart likely inherited his work ethic from his mother, a teacher, who was divorced from his father, a physics professor, when he was 11. His confidence grew 3 during his teenage years. “Work probably helped me tremendously, just the feeling of being able to go and make your own money, even if you get fired every now and then,” says Stewart, whose first jobs included everything from landscaping to toiling in a stockroom and bartending. “Working gave you a sense that you could survive no matter what happened.” Then, at the College of William and Mary, the psychology major honed his obnoxiousness

When a teacher asked Jon Stewart’s then8-year-old son, Nathan, to write a story about his hero, he didn’t choose Martin Luther King Jr. or Abraham Lincoln, or a grandparent. He chose Maziar Bahari. Not exactly a household name, Bahari, an Iranian-Canadian BBC journalist, was imprisoned and tortured for 118 days for his reports on the protests following incumbent Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s re-election in 2009 to a world audience. “His teachers were like, ‘Where did this come from?’” says the star of Comedy Central’s The Daily Show. No doubt, Nathan got the idea during conversations with his parents and sister around the family dinner table. Stewart became a Bahari supporter after he began covering the international campaign launched by Bahari’s wife, Paula, to free her

ring Mexican actor Gael Garcia Bernal as Bahari and based on Bahari’s best-selling memoir, Then They Came for Me: A Family’s Story of Love, Captivity and Survival. “Honestly, the real goal in making it for me was trying to tell Maziar’s story with integrity in a way that would do justice to the book,” Stewart says from his New York office. “It was with an eye on not screwing that up.” Although Stewart has maintained in the past that he’s a comedian, not a journalist, he increasingly blurs those lines. Regardless of material, whether it is fact or fake news, he is a modern-day storyteller, armed with the latest in technology and the oldest of sensibilities of fairness and common sense. He tells the truth and attacks hypocrisy with surgical precision, behavior that is especially appealing to younger viewers. Indeed, surveys reveal that the majority of those under age 35

bole, Photoshop, exaggeration, puns, the scatological. The language of satire is a very different animal than the language of journalism.” Whatever language he uses, it is translating into ratings and cultural relevance. That’s why NBC News president Deborah Turness contacted the “fake” journalist during her search to replace David Gregory on Meet the Press, according to recent press reports stating that NBC was “ready to back the Brink’s truck up to hire him.” “I don’t think I turned it down,” he says. “There was a small conversation where they were trying to figure out what the hell to do and they talked to me for a minute. It isn’t like they offered it to me or anything like that.” What was it like for the nonjournalist to be called about one of the most prestigious jobs in journalism? “That is part of the whole confusion with every-

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husband after he was taken prisoner by Iranian Revolutionary Guard police, and repeatedly interrogated—often brutally—by a captor Bahari said smelled like rosewater. Bahari’s saga also inspired Stewart, who turns 52 on Nov. 28, to write and direct his first film, Rosewater, which is in theaters now. He traveled to Jordan to shoot the docudrama, star-

cite The Daily Show, his latenight satirical TV series on Comedy Central, as their primary source of television news. “Journalism and satire aren’t necessarily dealing with separate subjects or intentions,” Stewart says. “We use a different set of tools than they do, and the tools we use wouldn’t necessarily meet with journalistic approval. Satire uses hyper-

thing,” he says. “I think just being able to have a few minutes to say why it’s a terrible idea disabused them of any notion of it.” Stewart didn’t dream of being a journalist or a talk-show host while growing up in Lawrenceville, N.J. He did, however, discover that he had a good sense of humor at an early age. “Whenever you are looking to be disruptive, which is generally NOVEMBER 23, 2014 | 9

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