David Javerbaum

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David Javerbaum is an American comedy writer and the executive producer of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. He was hired as a staff writer there in 1999, promoted to head writer in 2002 and attained his current position at the end of 2006, winning eight Emmy Awards, two Peabody Awards and Television Critics Association Awards for both Best Comedy and Best News Show. He was also one of the three principal authors of the show's textbook parody America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction, which sold 2.6 million copies and won the 2005 Thurber Prize for American Humor.

Javerbaum is an alumnus of the Graduate Musical Theatre Writing program at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. He graduated Harvard University where he wrote for the humor magazine The Harvard Lampoon and served as lyricist and co-bookwriter for two productions of the Hasty Pudding Theatricals. Later, he spent three years writing for the satirical newspaper and website The Onion, including numerous articles for its best-selling book Our Dumb Century, which also won the Thurber Prize. He wrote for The Late Show with David Letterman from 1998-9.

He is also a musical-theater librettist and lyricist who is co-songwriter (along with Adam Schlesinger of Fountains of Wayne) of the adaptation of John Waters' Cry-Baby which opened on Broadway on April 24, 2008 and was nominated for a 2008 Tony Award for Best Original Score. He was the lyricist and co-bookwriter of Suburb, was nominated for Outer Critics' Circle and Drama League awards for Best Off-Broadway Musical in 2001. He won the $100,000 Ed Kleban Award for Outstanding Lyrics in 2005.

He was a finalist on Jeopardy!'s 1988 Teen Tournament and its 1998 Teen Reunion Tournament.

Javerbaum grew up in Maplewood, New Jersey[1], where he attended Columbia High School.

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  1. ^ Meoli, Daria. "That’s Entertainment", New Jersey Monthly, October 2005. Accessed December 26. "The Daily Show With Jon Stewart is still the best fake newscast on TV, thanks to Lawrenceville native Stewart and head writer and Maplewood native David Javerbaum."

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Preceded by
Mitch Epner		 Jeopardy! Teen Tournament first runner-up
1988		 Succeeded by
Stanley Wu