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Bruce <
Bruce@invalid.invalid> wrote:
Yes, Stewart was mentioned
in the files. This isn't evidence of wrongdoing.
Jon Stewart, great guy.
Creep about town, basically.
https://www.tvguide.com/news/jon-stewart-biography-claims-he's-jerk-1086482/
Sadie Gennis
Sept. 3, 2014 at 8:39 a.m. PT
Jon Stewart is "anything but warm and fuzzy," a staffer asserts in Lisa Rogak's biography of The Daily Show host, according to a New York Daily News review.
In Angry Optimist: The Life and Times of Jon Stewart, Rogak details Stewart's painstaking rise to fame and the bad behavior he exhibits now that he has it. As one staffer recalls, Stewart threw a newspaper at producer Madeleine Smithberg during a story meeting while screaming into her face. The host apologized afterwards, explaining, "Sorry, that was bad Jon. ... I try not to let him out."
The biography also describes an incident where Stewart verbally
attacked Seth MacFarlane over the phone for a Family Guy joke that
poked fun at Stewart for returning to work while his writers were still
on strike. "Who the hell made you the moral arbiter of Hollywood?"
Stewart supposedly bellowed. MacFarlane later told Piers Morgan that he
was shocked by Stewart's call and referred to it as "an odd Hollywood
moment."
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