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‘Stay in your lane, news!’ says ‘Daily Show’ executive producer Jen Flanz. ‘We got this! Comedy is our job!’
Chris Smith is the author of The Daily Show (The Book): An Oral History as told by Jon Stewart, the Correspondents, Staff, and Guests (Grand Central). He is a contributing editor at New York magazine and lives in Brooklyn.
Fighting Time
That $31 million the ACLU raised in a weekend after it beat Trump in court was great, but it also raised the stakes: Can the storied group continue to deliver?
‘A Certain Humanity’
Despite the tight control Stewart maintained, he left things loose enough to nurture inspiration and improvisation.