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Posted: 6:35 a.m. Wednesday, March 6, 2013

Jon Stewart Leaves Daily Show 

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Jon Stewart is taking a 12-week leave of absence from "The Daily Show" this summer to direct his first movie.  Somewhat surprisingly, it's NOT a comedy.  It's an adaptation of a memoir called, "Then They Came for Me: A Family's Story of Love, Captivity and Survival"

A BBC journalist wrote it, and it's about his arrest by the Iranian government in 2009, while he was there covering an election protest.  He was interrogated and tortured for 118 days. 

The movie will be called "Rosewater".  Stewart wrote the script.  "Daily Show" correspondent John Oliver . . . the British one . . . will host while Stewart is gone.

 
 
 

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