Welcome to Better Know a Guest, your guide to the wonderful and diverse array of personalities appearing on ‘The Colbert Report’ and ‘The Daily Show’ each week.
Hey there Hubsters! As I dread going back to school on Sunday night, it is at least a comfort to remember that yet another week of shows is before us! Stephen’s guests this week are the executive producer of PBS’s Frontline, an author, a biographer, and a worker’s rights activist.
Guests on ‘The Daily Show’ this week are a filmmaker, a fashion expert, a former Secretary of Defense, and an author.
Monday, January 13 (2014)
David Fanning (Executive Producer, PBS “Frontline”)
David Fanning is a South African journalist and documentary filmmaker. Before coming to the US, he started out making documentaries about issues of race and religion in South Africa. Fanning filmed several documentaries for PBS, including Deep South, Deep North and Death of a Princess. He has been the producer of the documentary and investigative journalism show Frontline since its debut in 1983. It is the longest running investigative documentary series on American television, and has won numerous awards in journalism. The series draws talent from around the world and from all occupations to present a variety of stories and perspectives.
Awards: Emmy Award | Peabody Award | Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award | Television Critics Award
Follow: @FrontLinePBS
Tuesday, January 14 (2014)
Deborah Solomon (Author, “American Mirror: The Life and Art of Norman Rockwell”)
Deborah Solomon is an American art critic, journalist, and biographer. She has written for many art publications, including The New Criterion, before becoming the chief art critic of The Wall Street Journal. Her art reviews currently run on WNYC radio. She specializes in American art and has written several biographies of famous American painters. Her latest is American Mirror: The Life and Art of Norman Rockwell, which draws material from unpublished letters and other materials that shed some light onto the private life of one of America’s best loved painters.
Born: August 9 (New York City, New York, United States)
Education: Cornell University | Columbia University
Books: Jackson Pollock: A Biography | Utopia Parkway: The Life and Work of Joseph Cornell
Follow: @DeborahSolo
Wednesday, January 15 (2014)
Gabriel Sherman (Author: “The Loudest Voice in the Room: How the Brilliant, Bombastic Roger Ailes Built Fox news–and Divided a Country”)
Gabriel Sherman is a contributing editor a New York Magazine, and a Bernard L. Schwartz Fellow at the New America Foundation. Sherman frequently covers issues in media, politics, and business. He has appeared as a guest on CNN, Fox News MSNBC, ABC World News, and NPR, while his articles have been featured in The New York Times, The Guardian, Slate, GQ, The Atlantic, Wired, Outside Magazine, and National Geographic Adventure. His first book is The Loudest Voice in the Room, which chronicles the rise of Fox News and its president, Roger Ailes.
Follow: @GabrielSherman
Thursday, January 16 (2014)
Naquasia LeGrand (Activist: Fast Food Forward)
Naquasia LeGrand is an American activist and fast food worker who joined fast food workers’ protests in New York City. She will share her experiences in the industry as well as introduce Fast Food Forward, an organization formed as a response to the controversy over the minimum wage.
Follow: @FastFoodForward | Facebook
And now, let’s check in with our good friend Jon Stewart over at ‘The Daily Show’!
Monday, January 13 (2014)
Roger Ross Williams (Producer: “God Loves Uganda”)
Roger Ross Williams is an American director, producer, and writer. His career began in 1985, after which he produced shows for ABC News, NBC News, MSNBC, BBC, CNN, PBS, Comedy Central, Food Network, and many others. He directed the documentary Music by Prudence, which followed Prudence Mabhena, the singer-songwriter for the band Liyana, whose members are disabled. Williams is the first African American director to win an Academy Award in the category of Documentary Shorts, and the first African American director to win for directing and producing a film project. His latest documentary, God Loves Uganda, examines the unintended consequences of American missionaries proselytizing in Africa, such as Uganda’s strict anti-gay bill.
Born: April 13, 1973
Filmography: New York Underground | The Lives They Lived | Sheila Bridges Designer Living: Morocco Special | Sheila Bridges Designer Living | Undercover Boss | Music by Prudence | People Yearbook ’95 | Sex, Drugs, and Consequences | TV Nation: Volume One | Life 360
Awards: NAMIC Vision Award | National Headliner Best Human Interest Feature | Academy Award
Follow: @RogerRossWill
Tuesday, January 14 (2014)
Tim Gunn (Host: “Under the Gunn”)
Tim Gunn is an American fashion guru and television personality, who is best known as a mentor on the reality show, Project Runway, and as the writer of the popular Guide to Quality, Taste,and Style. Gunn was a member of the faculty at Parsons The New School For Design until 2007, and was the chair of fashion design at Parsons, and became the chief creative officer of Liz Claiborne after leaving the school. Gunn has also hosted the Project Runway spin-off Tim Gunn’s Guide to Style. His new show is Lifetime’s Under the Gunn, a reality competition show that tests the contestants with a series of challenges.
Born: July 29, 1953 (Washington, D.C., United States)
Education: Corcoran College of Art and Design
Filmography: Project Runway | Tim Gunn’s Guide to Style | Ugly Betty | American Dad | The Replacements | Drop Dead Diva | The Biggest Loser: Second Chances | How I Met Your Mother | Sex and the City 2 | Gossip Girl | Teen Spirit | The Smurfs | The Revolution | Family Guy
Books: A Guide to Quality,Taste, and Style | Gunn’s Golden Rules: Life’s Little Lesson’s for Making It Work | Shaken, Not Stirred
Previous ‘Daily Show’ Appearance(s): Interview – February 4, 2008 | August 19, 2009 | September 7, 2010 | August 6, 2012 | July 30, 2013
Follow: @TimGunn
Wednesday,January 15 (2014)
Robert Gates (Author, “Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War”)
Robert Gates is a former Secretary of Defense, who bridged two administrations from 2006 to 2011. He has a long history in intelligence, having worked for the CIA, the US Air Force, and the National Security Council. Gates has served under four presidents, and was made the Director of Central Intelligence from 1991-1993, receiving many awards for his service. His latest book Duty covers his years spent as the Secretary of Defense, and has thus far create much controversy surrounds Gates remarks on America’s military presence in the Middle East.
Born: September 25, 1943 (Wichita, Kansas, United States)
Education: Wichita High School East | College of William and Mary | Indiana University | Georgetown University
Awards: Presidential Medal of Freedom | Presidential Citizens Medal | Security Medal | National Intelligence Distinguished Service Medal | Eagle Scout | Distinguished Eagle Scout | Corps of Cadets Hall of Honor | Arthur S. Flemming Award | George Bush Award
Thursday, January 16 (2014)
Steven Brill (Author: “Class Warfare”)
Steven Brill is an American journalist, and the founder of CourtTV and American Lawyer magazine. Brill is a columnist for TIME magazine, a contributing editor for Newsweek magazine, and the founder of Brill’s Content magazine. His articles have appeared in Harper’s, The New Yorker, and New York Times magazine. His book Class Warfare focuses on the educational reform debate, and offers some solutions, while his TIME magazine cover story, Bitter Pill examines the health care debate. It is unclear which, if either, he will be discussing on The Daily Show.
Born: August 22, 1950 (Queens, New York City, New York, United States)
Education: Deerfield Academy | Yale University
Books: Teamsters | After: How America Confronted the September 12 Era | Class Warfare: Inside the Fight to Fix America’s Schools
Previous ‘Daily Show’ Appearance(s): Interview – February 21, 2013
Follow: @StevenBrill
Please remember to vote in our weekly favourite guests polls, and don’t forget to let us know which guests you’re looking forward to! Also please try to comment with any tips or suggestions that you have for this post. Thanks! Here’s to a great week of shows! That’s all for this week Hubsters! See you next time!
Better Know a Guest: January 13-16, 2014
Welcome to Better Know a Guest, your guide to the wonderful and diverse array of personalities appearing on ‘The Colbert Report’ and ‘The Daily Show’ each week.
Hey there Hubsters! As I dread going back to school on Sunday night, it is at least a comfort to remember that yet another week of shows is before us! Stephen’s guests this week are the executive producer of PBS’s Frontline, an author, a biographer, and a worker’s rights activist.
Guests on ‘The Daily Show’ this week are a filmmaker, a fashion expert, a former Secretary of Defense, and an author.
Monday, January 13 (2014)
David Fanning (Executive Producer, PBS “Frontline”)
David Fanning is a South African journalist and documentary filmmaker. Before coming to the US, he started out making documentaries about issues of race and religion in South Africa. Fanning filmed several documentaries for PBS, including Deep South, Deep North and Death of a Princess. He has been the producer of the documentary and investigative journalism show Frontline since its debut in 1983. It is the longest running investigative documentary series on American television, and has won numerous awards in journalism. The series draws talent from around the world and from all occupations to present a variety of stories and perspectives.
Awards: Emmy Award | Peabody Award | Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award | Television Critics Award
Follow: @FrontLinePBS
Tuesday, January 14 (2014)
Deborah Solomon (Author, “American Mirror: The Life and Art of Norman Rockwell”)
Deborah Solomon is an American art critic, journalist, and biographer. She has written for many art publications, including The New Criterion, before becoming the chief art critic of The Wall Street Journal. Her art reviews currently run on WNYC radio. She specializes in American art and has written several biographies of famous American painters. Her latest is American Mirror: The Life and Art of Norman Rockwell, which draws material from unpublished letters and other materials that shed some light onto the private life of one of America’s best loved painters.
Born: August 9 (New York City, New York, United States)
Education: Cornell University | Columbia University
Books: Jackson Pollock: A Biography | Utopia Parkway: The Life and Work of Joseph Cornell
Follow: @DeborahSolo
Wednesday, January 15 (2014)
Gabriel Sherman (Author: “The Loudest Voice in the Room: How the Brilliant, Bombastic Roger Ailes Built Fox news–and Divided a Country”)
Gabriel Sherman is a contributing editor a New York Magazine, and a Bernard L. Schwartz Fellow at the New America Foundation. Sherman frequently covers issues in media, politics, and business. He has appeared as a guest on CNN, Fox News MSNBC, ABC World News, and NPR, while his articles have been featured in The New York Times, The Guardian, Slate, GQ, The Atlantic, Wired, Outside Magazine, and National Geographic Adventure. His first book is The Loudest Voice in the Room, which chronicles the rise of Fox News and its president, Roger Ailes.
Follow: @GabrielSherman
Thursday, January 16 (2014)
Naquasia LeGrand (Activist: Fast Food Forward)
Naquasia LeGrand is an American activist and fast food worker who joined fast food workers’ protests in New York City. She will share her experiences in the industry as well as introduce Fast Food Forward, an organization formed as a response to the controversy over the minimum wage.
Follow: @FastFoodForward | Facebook
And now, let’s check in with our good friend Jon Stewart over at ‘The Daily Show’!
Monday, January 13 (2014)
Roger Ross Williams (Producer: “God Loves Uganda”)
Roger Ross Williams is an American director, producer, and writer. His career began in 1985, after which he produced shows for ABC News, NBC News, MSNBC, BBC, CNN, PBS, Comedy Central, Food Network, and many others. He directed the documentary Music by Prudence, which followed Prudence Mabhena, the singer-songwriter for the band Liyana, whose members are disabled. Williams is the first African American director to win an Academy Award in the category of Documentary Shorts, and the first African American director to win for directing and producing a film project. His latest documentary, God Loves Uganda, examines the unintended consequences of American missionaries proselytizing in Africa, such as Uganda’s strict anti-gay bill.
Born: April 13, 1973
Filmography: New York Underground | The Lives They Lived | Sheila Bridges Designer Living: Morocco Special | Sheila Bridges Designer Living | Undercover Boss | Music by Prudence | People Yearbook ’95 | Sex, Drugs, and Consequences | TV Nation: Volume One | Life 360
Awards: NAMIC Vision Award | National Headliner Best Human Interest Feature | Academy Award
Follow: @RogerRossWill
Tuesday, January 14 (2014)
Tim Gunn (Host: “Under the Gunn”)
Tim Gunn is an American fashion guru and television personality, who is best known as a mentor on the reality show, Project Runway, and as the writer of the popular Guide to Quality, Taste,and Style. Gunn was a member of the faculty at Parsons The New School For Design until 2007, and was the chair of fashion design at Parsons, and became the chief creative officer of Liz Claiborne after leaving the school. Gunn has also hosted the Project Runway spin-off Tim Gunn’s Guide to Style. His new show is Lifetime’s Under the Gunn, a reality competition show that tests the contestants with a series of challenges.
Born: July 29, 1953 (Washington, D.C., United States)
Education: Corcoran College of Art and Design
Filmography: Project Runway | Tim Gunn’s Guide to Style | Ugly Betty | American Dad | The Replacements | Drop Dead Diva | The Biggest Loser: Second Chances | How I Met Your Mother | Sex and the City 2 | Gossip Girl | Teen Spirit | The Smurfs | The Revolution | Family Guy
Books: A Guide to Quality,Taste, and Style | Gunn’s Golden Rules: Life’s Little Lesson’s for Making It Work | Shaken, Not Stirred
Previous ‘Daily Show’ Appearance(s): Interview – February 4, 2008 | August 19, 2009 | September 7, 2010 | August 6, 2012 | July 30, 2013
Follow: @TimGunn
Wednesday,January 15 (2014)
Robert Gates (Author, “Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War”)
Robert Gates is a former Secretary of Defense, who bridged two administrations from 2006 to 2011. He has a long history in intelligence, having worked for the CIA, the US Air Force, and the National Security Council. Gates has served under four presidents, and was made the Director of Central Intelligence from 1991-1993, receiving many awards for his service. His latest book Duty covers his years spent as the Secretary of Defense, and has thus far create much controversy surrounds Gates remarks on America’s military presence in the Middle East.
Born: September 25, 1943 (Wichita, Kansas, United States)
Education: Wichita High School East | College of William and Mary | Indiana University | Georgetown University
Awards: Presidential Medal of Freedom | Presidential Citizens Medal | Security Medal | National Intelligence Distinguished Service Medal | Eagle Scout | Distinguished Eagle Scout | Corps of Cadets Hall of Honor | Arthur S. Flemming Award | George Bush Award
Thursday, January 16 (2014)
Steven Brill (Author: “Class Warfare”)
Steven Brill is an American journalist, and the founder of CourtTV and American Lawyer magazine. Brill is a columnist for TIME magazine, a contributing editor for Newsweek magazine, and the founder of Brill’s Content magazine. His articles have appeared in Harper’s, The New Yorker, and New York Times magazine. His book Class Warfare focuses on the educational reform debate, and offers some solutions, while his TIME magazine cover story, Bitter Pill examines the health care debate. It is unclear which, if either, he will be discussing on The Daily Show.
Born: August 22, 1950 (Queens, New York City, New York, United States)
Education: Deerfield Academy | Yale University
Books: Teamsters | After: How America Confronted the September 12 Era | Class Warfare: Inside the Fight to Fix America’s Schools
Previous ‘Daily Show’ Appearance(s): Interview – February 21, 2013
Follow: @StevenBrill
Please remember to vote in our weekly favourite guests polls, and don’t forget to let us know which guests you’re looking forward to! Also please try to comment with any tips or suggestions that you have for this post. Thanks! Here’s to a great week of shows! That’s all for this week Hubsters! See you next time!