Jon Stewart knows he should've done more to actively support and promote the underrepresented voices of women and people of color while he was the host of The Daily Show
The Daily ShowSpeaking now, Stewart said he initially took great offense at the suggestion thatand his behavior ere sexist. “I was like, sexist? I was raised by a single mother. My mother wore a T-shirt that said, ‘A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle.’ And I’m a man. I grew up in a house where I knew I wasn’t needed.”
But, Stewart added, he soon realized there was more than a little truth to the piece and its premise. “I remember going back into the writers’ room and being like, ‘Do you believe this shit? Kevin? Steve? Mike? Bob? Donald?’ Oh. Uh oh. Uh oh.’”had a policy that removed names from submission packets in an effort to prevent the hiring process from being influenced by gender or race. “But we still kept just hiring white dudes. White dudes from a certain background,” he said.
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