While Jon Stewart is away to work on his directorial debut, John Oliver will be hosting The Daily Show with Jon Stewart on Comedy Central. The network announced that his guest stint will start in June and that Stewart will return in September.
In March, Stewart revealed that he was leaving to direct Rosewater, based on Then They Came For Me: A Family’s Story Of Love, Captivity And Survival by Maziar Bahari, a BBC reporter who was imprisoned by the Iranian government in 2009. It was co-written by Aimee Molloy and the film will be co-produced by Scott Rudin (The Social Network).
Comedy Central named Oliver, a veteran Daily Show correspondent, as Stewart’s replacement over the summer while Stewart works on the project. Oliver will host the show for eight weeks, starting on Monday, June 10. Stewart will be back on Tuesday, Sept. 3.
Oliver’s first guests will include Seth Rogen (June 10), Veepcreator Armando Iannucci (June 11), Mavis Staples (June 12) and CNN’s Fareed Zakaria (June 13).
“Don’t worry, it’s still going to be everything that you love about ‘The Daily Show,’ just without the thing that you love the most about it,” Oliver said in a statement.
Oliver has been on The Daily Show since 2006 and also hosts the weekly podcast The Bugle: Audio Newspaper for a Visual World. His John Oliver’s New York Stand-up Show airs on Comedy Central and is entering its fourth season this summer.
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