ryoder 1,590 #1 June 18, 2013 I'd heard Jon Stewart was directing something this summer, so I did some googling to see what it was about. Rather interesting when a fake news show *becomes* part of the news: Quote Bahari was imprisoned, interrogated, and beaten in Iran for 118 days in 2009 on charges that he was attempting to stage the overthrow of the Iranian government. One of the pieces of "evidence" that Bahari's Iranian captors held against him as proof of his guilt was footage from a "Daily Show" segment in which he was interviewed by Jason Jones pretending to be a spy (during the sketch, Bahari called Iran's dictator, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. an "idiot"). After he was released, Bahari was interviewed on "The Daily Show" by Jon Stewart, who discussed the role that the show had (inadvertently) played in his imprisonment. Stewart and Bahari became friendly, and Stewart decided to adapt Bahari's 2011 book "Then They Came for Me: A Family's Story of Love, Captivity and Survival" (cowritten with Aimee Molloy) into a screenplay. From IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2752688/ Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Then_They_Came_for_Me"There are only three things of value: younger women, faster airplanes, and bigger crocodiles" - Arthur Jones. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
quade 4 #2 June 19, 2013 Stewart went over the basics on his show a couple of weeks ago. Here's the clip. http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-june-6-2013/summer-breakquade - The World's Most Boring Skydiver Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
