Equality Myth: Apparently Jon Stewart Throws Scripts at Women--and Other Scary Shit from Late-Night TV
A piece on Jezebel yesterday tackles the lack of women at the Daily Show, revealing that, while Jon Stewart may positively lovable on air, one former executive describes the “huge discrepancy between the Jon Stewart who goes on TV every night and the Jon Stewart who runs The Daily Show with joyless rage.” Ouch.
In one oft-told story, apparently Stewart threw a newspaper or script at the show’s co-creator Madeleine Smithberg, because he thought her work sucked. But Smithberg doesn’t think Stewart is sexist. As she puts it:
“By the time [a person] get to the candidates of the Daily Show, the herd has been thinned by the larger societal forces.” Of the greater talent pool of comedians, “All that’s left are white men and Aziz Ansari.”
So Stewart may not be sexist, but clearly the system is.
-jessica
Title’s a bit misleading (the script-throwing is an apocryphal story about a one-time incident, though I personally don’t doubt its veracity or its implications) but it’s otherwise a compelling article that doesn’t exactly break new ground, except for a relative lack of the usual Daily Show-apologist language that crops up whenever someone starts talking about the dearth of women in late-night comedy. Which is always nice.
The relative lack of apologist language, not the dearth. The dearth is decidedly not nice.
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And now for the sexist stat of the day, care of insiders at the David Letterman show: Of the 96 comedians on the...
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thirddeadlysin reblogged this from equalitymyth and added:
Title’s a bit misleading (the script-throwing is an apocryphal story about a one-time incident, though I personally...
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And now for the sexist stat of the day, care of insiders at the David Letterman show: Of the 96 comedians on the...
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rachael-maddux reblogged this from equalitymyth and added:
So Stewart may not be sexist, but clearly...system is. And now for the sexist stat
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gaggedandcollegebound reblogged this from equalitymyth and added:
for me…I thought I loved him. How wrong I was. [edit: I only skimmed...article, honestly....
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