Seven years after retiring from “The Daily Show,” Jon Stewart will become the 23rd recipient of the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor.
, so he knew what it meant when the Kennedy Center called. But still, it was weird. All this? For turd mining?,” says Stewart. “And it took me a little bit to go like,. I get it now. I’m that guy. I’m the guy they want to be like, ‘We’re gonna throw you a party because we don’t know how long this is gonna go.’ ”young, at least relative to other big-time comedians who’ve left their history-making shows. And he’s not done.
He comes from a long line of Jewish immigrants. One grandmother lived through the pogroms in Russia. One grandfather, from a Jewish community in Inner Mongolia, fled Japanese invasion. Stewart and his older brother Larry were raised in Lawrenceville, N.J., near Princeton. Their father, Donald, a physicist, left their mother, Marian, a teacher, when Stewart was 11. Eventually, Stewart and his father became estranged.
He’d dreamed of being a professional soccer player but knew it was a long shot and, anyway, blew his knee out in college at William & Mary. and managed to get it towed with the food he was supposed to drop off at a holiday party still inside. “I had to chase that f---ing van all the way from Midtown to the impound lot,” he says.That comedy might be the answer, he says, “I’d always had that in my head.” But it wasn’t until he started bartending at, a legendary punk club where he’d watch Joan Jett, GWAR and Butthole Surfers that he could see a possibility of a different life. Maybe on a stage. Not behind a bar. Not in Trenton.
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