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Jon Stewart’s Iranian journalist friend: Regime uses ‘sick’ homoerotic torture for ‘entertainment’
An Iranian journalist who’s now the subject of comedian Jon Stewart’s upcoming film “Rosewater” told “The Daily Show” host and a crowd gathered by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) last week that he and others have endured “sick” homoerotic torture, apparently for their captors’ mere “entertainment.” Maziar Bahari was…
Jon Stewart leaving ‘The Daily Show’ to direct feature film
Comedy Central’s Jon Stewart will leave “The Daily Show” this summer to direct a feature film, putting longtime contributor John Oliver at the program’s helm for 12 weeks while the program’s host is on hiatus. According to Deadline, the film is an adaptation of Maziar Bahari’s book, Then They Came…
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