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Jon Stewart: Too Smart for His Own Good?

By Dan Kennedy

Boston Phoenix | March 9, 2005

Some half-dozen years after assuming the anchor desk at The Daily Show and transforming what had been a celebrity-driven yukfest into biting political satire, the 42-year-old Stewart and his fellow performers and writers have reached the top of the heap. But being taken seriously — and, for that matter, expecting to be taken seriously — is the death of such humor.

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