riverplate
02 Dec 2006, 10:46 AM
Well, why should Congress and the White House be the only places due for a house-cleaning...
The Executive Producer of ‘The Daily Show’ and ‘The Colbert Report’ Is Leaving (http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/02/arts/television/02karl.html?ref=arts) - N.Y. Times
It’s probably not an analogy Jon Stewart would appreciate, given his politics, but since soon after he began his run on Comedy Central’s “Daily Show” in 1999, Ben Karlin has served as Karl Rove to Mr. Stewart’s George W. Bush, if not his Dick Cheney. So it has come as a shock that Mr. Karlin, an executive producer of both Mr. Stewart’s show and “The Colbert Report,” has decided to leave those jobs at the end of this month. The sense of intrigue has only been heightened by the way word got out.
Hired by Mr. Stewart, based largely on his work at the satirical newspaper The Onion, Mr. Karlin moved from head writer of “The Daily Show” in the summer of 1999 to executive producer in 2003. While still holding that position, Mr. Karlin, 35, helped Mr. Stewart’s production company, Busboy, start “The Colbert Report,” with Stephen Colbert, for Comedy Central last fall as an executive producer, and then presided over the writing staff for Mr. Stewart’s appearance as host of the Academy Awards telecast earlier this year.
Given their close creative relationship--in recent weeks, Mr. Karlin has also been helping Mr. Stewart develop “Three Strikes,” a pilot about a minor league baseball team for Comedy Central--it came as a surprise when a comedy Web site, theapiary.org, first reported on Thursday afternoon that Mr. Karlin had decided to relinquish his roles as executive producer of both Mr. Stewart’s show and Mr. Colbert’s. Only minutes earlier, Mr. Karlin had informed the staffs of the two shows of his decision, which Comedy Central confirmed late Thursday night in a terse, two-sentence statement issued to the trade journals Variety and Broadcasting & Cable.
Why did the partnership between Mr. Stewart and Mr. Karlin begin to unravel so abruptly? The answer was not entirely clear yesterday. Comedy Central said it had learned of Mr. Karlin’s impending departure only over the last few days.
The Executive Producer of ‘The Daily Show’ and ‘The Colbert Report’ Is Leaving (http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/02/arts/television/02karl.html?ref=arts) - N.Y. Times
It’s probably not an analogy Jon Stewart would appreciate, given his politics, but since soon after he began his run on Comedy Central’s “Daily Show” in 1999, Ben Karlin has served as Karl Rove to Mr. Stewart’s George W. Bush, if not his Dick Cheney. So it has come as a shock that Mr. Karlin, an executive producer of both Mr. Stewart’s show and “The Colbert Report,” has decided to leave those jobs at the end of this month. The sense of intrigue has only been heightened by the way word got out.
Hired by Mr. Stewart, based largely on his work at the satirical newspaper The Onion, Mr. Karlin moved from head writer of “The Daily Show” in the summer of 1999 to executive producer in 2003. While still holding that position, Mr. Karlin, 35, helped Mr. Stewart’s production company, Busboy, start “The Colbert Report,” with Stephen Colbert, for Comedy Central last fall as an executive producer, and then presided over the writing staff for Mr. Stewart’s appearance as host of the Academy Awards telecast earlier this year.
Given their close creative relationship--in recent weeks, Mr. Karlin has also been helping Mr. Stewart develop “Three Strikes,” a pilot about a minor league baseball team for Comedy Central--it came as a surprise when a comedy Web site, theapiary.org, first reported on Thursday afternoon that Mr. Karlin had decided to relinquish his roles as executive producer of both Mr. Stewart’s show and Mr. Colbert’s. Only minutes earlier, Mr. Karlin had informed the staffs of the two shows of his decision, which Comedy Central confirmed late Thursday night in a terse, two-sentence statement issued to the trade journals Variety and Broadcasting & Cable.
Why did the partnership between Mr. Stewart and Mr. Karlin begin to unravel so abruptly? The answer was not entirely clear yesterday. Comedy Central said it had learned of Mr. Karlin’s impending departure only over the last few days.