‘The Daily Show With Jon Stewart’ Presents ‘The Daily Show: Look Who’s Coming to Denver’ Week-Long Coverage From the 2008 Democratic National Convention Beginning Tuesday, August 26 at 11:00 P.M. ET/PT

    "Look Who's Coming To Denver" Will Be Taped At The Byron Theatre In The

Newman Center For The Performing Arts At The University Of Denver And Air

August 26-29



    NEW YORK, Aug. 25 /
EMWNews
/ -- Jon Stewart and "The Best F*ing

News Team Ever!" have followed the political trail to Denver, CO and are

set to attack the 2008 Democratic National Convention like no other news

team in history. The Emmy(R) and Peabody(R) Award-winning "The Daily Show

with Jon Stewart" will broadcast all week from the mile-high epicenter of

American politics, with shows airing Tuesday, August 26 through Friday,

August 29 at 11:00 p.m. ET/PT.



    As part of its ongoing "Indecision 2008" coverage of the race for the

White House, "The Daily Show: Look Who's Coming to Denver" coverage of the

2008 DNC will be taped at The Byron Theatre in the Newman Center for the

Performing Arts at The University of Denver. On tap for the week will be

the insightful coverage you've come to expect from the best F*ing News

Team Ever -- and this time they have their own bus and their own floor

passes. The shows will include nightly reports from the convention floor

about the issues that matter the most, in-studio guests and the highly

anticipated Barack Obama biographical film.



    The show will then head straight to the Republican National Convention

in Minneapolis/St. Paul to present "The Daily Show: Restoring Honor and

Dignity to the White House" which will tape at The History Theatre at

McNally Smith College of Music with nightly shows at 11:00 p.m. ET/PT from

Tuesday, September 2 through Friday, September 5.



    "The Daily Show: Look Who's Coming to Denver" marks the sixth time the

series has taken its critically-acclaimed and award-winning "Indecision"

coverage on the road to broadcast for a week, having previously travelled

to Philadelphia (2000 RNC), Los Angeles (2000 DNC) and Boston (2004 DNC) to

cover the national party conventions and to Washington, D.C. (2002) and

Columbus, OH (2006) for special, mid-term election coverage. The series

first earned its political stripes during the now-infamous 2000 election,

receiving an Emmy(R) Award and a prestigious George Foster Peabody(R) Award

for its year-long "Indecision 2000" coverage of the race for the White

House, feats repeated during the series' "Indecision 2004" election

reporting.



    Politicians who have appeared on "The Daily Show" include former

Presidents Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter, former Vice President Al Gore,

Senators John McCain, Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, John Kerry,

Joseph Lieberman, Bob Kerrey, Charles Schumer, Norm Coleman, Arlen Specter,

Ted Kennedy, Trent Lott, Rick Santorum, Russ Feingold, Barbara Boxer,

Representatives Nancy Pelosi and Rahm Emanuel, New York City Mayor Michael

Bloomberg, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani and Senator John

Edwards, who announced his intention to run for the 2004 Democratic

Presidential nomination during an appearance on the show on September 15,

2003. In addition, General Pervez Musharraf, President of the Islamic

Republic of Pakistan, was Stewart's guest on September 26, 2006, marking

the first time a sitting head of state had appeared on the show.



    "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" was launched in the summer of 1996.

The nightly news satire takes a reality-based look at news, trends, pop

culture, current events, politics, sports, entertainment and the media. In

each show, Stewart and a team of correspondents, including Samantha Bee,

Wyatt Cenac, Jason Jones, Aasif Mandvi, John Oliver, Rob Riggle and Larry

Wilmore, comment on the day's stories employing actual news footage, taped

field pieces, in-studio guests and on-the-spot coverage of important news

events.



    "The Daily Show" regularly airs Monday-Thursday at 11:00 p.m. ET/PT and

repeats at 1:00 a.m. the same night and at 10:00 a.m., 2:00 p.m. and 8:00

p.m. the following day.



    Jon Stewart and David Javerbaum are the executive producers of "The

Daily Show with Jon Stewart" with Rory Albanese, Kahane Corn and Josh Lieb

serving as co-executive producers. The series' head writer is Steve Bodow.

Chuck O'Neil is the director.



    "The Daily Show: Look Who's Coming to Denver" is sponsored by AT&T,

Volkswagen, Diageo and Subway.