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AI Summary
- Chris Smith, author of the New York Times bestseller 'The Daily Show: An Oral History,' interviewed 144 people including Jon Stewart, Steve Carell, and Stephen Colbert
- Discusses how Jon Stewart redefined late-night comedy through his upper-middle-class New Jersey background and sideways entry into comedy
- Explains how Stewart used humor to disrupt mainstream media, politics, and news coverage between 1999-2015