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Jon Stewart (born Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz; November 28, 1962) is an American comedian, writer, producer, director, actor, media critic, and former television host. From 1999 to 2015, he was the host of ''The Daily Show'', a satirical news program that airs on Comedy Central. Stewart started as a stand-up comedian, but branched into television as host of ''Short Attention Span Theater'' for Comedy Central. He went on to host his own show on MTV, called ''The Jon Stewart Show'', and then hosted another show on MTV called ''You Wrote It, You Watch It''. He has also had several film roles as an actor, but has done few cinematic projects since becoming the host of ''The Daily Show'' on Comedy Central in early 1999. He is also a writer and co-executive producer of the show. After Stewart joined, ''The Daily Show'' steadily gained popularity and critical acclaim, and his work won 22 Primetime Emmy Awards. Stewart has gained acclaim as an acerbic, satirical critic of personality-driven media shows, in particular those of the U.S. media networks such as CNN, Fox News Channel, and MSNBC.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=Internet Movie Database )〕 Critics say Stewart benefits from a double standard: he critiques other news shows from the safe, removed position of his "fake news" desk. Stewart agrees, saying that neither his show nor his channel purports to be anything other than satire and comedy. In spite of its self-professed entertainment mandate, ''The Daily Show'' has been nominated for news and journalism awards. Stewart hosted the 78th and 80th Academy Awards. He is the co-author of ''America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction'', which was one of the best-selling books in the U.S. in 2004, and ''Earth (The Book): A Visitor's Guide to the Human Race'', released in 2010. Stewart announced on February 10, 2015, during a taping of ''The Daily Show'', that he would leave the show before the end of 2015, but assured fans that he was not retiring and suggested that he would continue writing and may return to stand-up comedy or as a part-time correspondent.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Comedy Central Names Trevor Noah as Next Host of The Daily Show )〕 Stewart's final show aired on August 6, 2015. In November 2015, it was announced that Stewart signed a four-year deal with HBO that will include exclusive digital content for HBO NOW, HBO Go and other platforms.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/tv/jon-stewart-inks-four-year-deal-hbo-create-digital-content-n456636 )〕 ==Early life== Stewart was born Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz on November 28, 1962, in New York City, to Marian (née Laskin), a teacher and later educational consultant,〔 and Donald Leibowitz (died June 8, 2013), a professor of physics at The College of New Jersey and Thomas Edison State College. Stewart's family emigrated to the U.S. from Poland, Ukraine and Belarus (thus also making him a Litvak Jew); one of his grandfathers was born in Manzhouli (now part of Inner Mongolia). Stewart is the second of four sons, with older brother Lawrence〔 and younger brothers Dan and Matthew.〔 Stewart's parents divorced when Stewart was eleven years old, and Stewart was apparently largely estranged from his father.〔 Because of his strained relationship with his father, which in 2015 he described as "still 'complicated'", he dropped his surname and began using his middle name, Stuart. Stewart stated, "There was a thought of using my mother's maiden name, but I thought that would be just too big a fuck you to my dad...Did I have some problems with my father? Yes. Yet people always view (my surname ) through the prism of ethnic identity."〔Freeman, Hadley (April 18, 2015). ("Jon Stewart: why I quit The Daily Show " ). ''The Guardian''〕 He had his surname legally changed to Stewart in 2001.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=The Smoking Gun )〕 Stewart and his brother Lawrence, who was previously the Chief Operating Officer of NYSE Euronext (parent company of the New York Stock Exchange), grew up in Lawrenceville, New Jersey, where they attended Lawrence High School.〔 According to Stewart, he was subjected to anti-Semitic bullying as a child. He describes himself in high school as "very into Eugene Debs and a bit of a leftist." Stewart grew up in the era of the Vietnam War and the Watergate scandal, which inspired in him "a healthy skepticism towards official reports". His first job was working at a Woolworths at which his brother Lawrence worked, and jokingly describes being fired by Lawrence as one of the "scarring events" of his youth.〔 Stewart graduated in 1984 from the College of William & Mary in Virginia, where he played on the soccer team and initially majored in chemistry before switching to psychology.〔 While at William & Mary, Stewart became a brother of the Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Pikes )〕 but later disassociated himself from the fraternity and left after six months.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Biography for Jon Stewart )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= The Top 49 Men of 2010 )〕 "My college career was waking up late, memorizing someone else's notes, doing bong hits, and going to soccer practice," he would later recall. His soccer coach would later describe him as a "good player" with "high energy". After college, Stewart held numerous jobs: a contingency planner for the New Jersey Department of Human Services, a contract administrator for the City University of New York, a puppeteer for children with disabilities, a soccer coach at Gloucester High School in Virginia, a caterer, a busboy, a shelf stocker at Woolworth's, a bartender at the Franklin Corner Tavern (a local blue-collar bar), and a bartender at the legendary City Gardens in Trenton, New Jersey.〔〔 He has said that working at City Gardens was a pivotal moment for him: "finding this place City Gardens was like, 'Oh, maybe I'm not a giant weirdo. Maybe there are other people who have a similar sense of yearning for something other than what they have now.' I think it inspired a lot of people, man. It was a very creative environment. It was a place of great possibility." 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jon Stewart」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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