Oscar Coverage: Ceremony and the Host

LIVE and EXCLUSIVE coverage of the Road to the Red Carpet and the 78th Annual Academy Awards? is brought to you in India ONLY on STAR MOVIES. This comes to you Live from outside Kodak Theatre? at 5.30 AM and the repeat of the same at Prime Time at 8 PM on 6 March, 2006. STAR MOVIES offers you the best seats in the renowned Kodak Theatre? located right in the heart of Hollywood! Hosted by Comedy Central's multiple Emmy and Peabody winning The Daily Show's Jon Stewart, Oscar? night will be a four-hour star-studded extravaganza that is brought LIVE for you just as every year only by STAR MOVIES.

ABOUT HOST JON STEWART

Jon Stewart is considered one of America's top social and comedic voices. From his anchor chair on Comedy Central's "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart," Stewart "has breathed new life into a show that hadn't even seemed to need it," said The New York Times. Since taking over as the host of "The Daily Show" in January, 1999, Stewart's presence has seen higher ratings and awareness for himself, as well as the network. As host of "The Daily Show" Stewart has interviewed such luminaries as former President Bill Clinton, Senators Hillary Rodham Clinton, John Kerry, John Edwards and Bob Dole and such celebrity icons as Tom Cruise, Tom Hanks and Bruce Willis.

For the past five years, Stewart and "The Daily Show" have received 10 Emmy Award nominations and won 7. These include winning for Outstanding Writing for a Variety, Music or Comedy Program four times. Jon himself was nominated for Outstanding Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program in 2002, 2003 and again this year in 2005.

While it may be the conventional route for a stand-up comedian to sign a book deal and expound on their early days inside dingy comedy clubs, Stewart has gone the other way. His debut book, Naked Pictures of Famous People, (Rob Weisbach Books) is a collection of humorous what-if essays.

Prior to taking over "The Daily Show," Stewart was a series regular on HBO's critically-acclaimed series-within-a-series, "The Larry Sanders Show," playing a character he should know very well: himself.

Hosting a late-night talk show was nothing new to Stewart. After briefly hosting a half-hour nighttime talk show on MTV, aptly titled "The Jon Stewart Show," Paramount enlarged the show to a one-hour format for national syndication. The critically-acclaimed talk show featured a variety of celebrity guests from the worlds of music, entertainment, sports and fashion. The show aired from September 1994 through June 1995.

Stewart's been seen in numerous feature films including the Danny De Vito-directed Warner Brothers Comedy DEATH TO SMOOCHY starring Edward Norton, Robin Williams, De Vito and Catherine Keener, BIG DADDY opposite Adam Sandler, which grossed over $160 million dollars domestically, the romantic drama PLAYING BY HEART opposite Gillian Anderson; and THE FACULTY, a horror-comedy directed by Robert Rodriguez.

Stewart has graced the cover of numerous magazines including Newsweek, Rolling Stone, New York Magazine, etc. He was also named "Entertainer of the Year" for 2004 by Entertainment Weekly and is being honored as New York Entertainer of the Year" by Variety. Most recently Stewart has been featured on such shows as "Oprah" and "60 Minutes."

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