Welcome to Better Know a Guest, your weekly guide to the wonderful and diverse array of personalities appearing on ‘The Colbert Report’ and ‘The Daily Show’ each week.
Hello Hubsters! Another week, another series of shows! It looks like a pretty interesting week to me! Also, Bill O’Reilly’s microwave for the Yellow Ribbon Fund sold for $5400. Way to go! I’m also interested to see what Stephen’s got in store for the last few days of the Olympics. What do you all want to see?
Stephen’s guests this week include two singers, two Olympians, and an actor.
Jon’s guests this week are two authors, a scientist, and an actor.
Monday, February 24 (2014)
Darlene Love (Documentary: “20 Feet From Stardom”)
Darlene Love is an American singer and actress. She appears in the American documentary film 20 Feet From Stardom, along with Judith Hill, Merry Clayton, Lisa Fischer, Tata Vega, and Jo Lawry, and various background singers. The film was produced by Gil Friesen, a music industry executive who was curious about the lives of the background singers who travel with famous performers. 20 Feet premiered at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, and has screened at many more festivals to universally positive reviews from critics. It is nominated for Best Documentary Feature at the 86th Academy Awards.
Born: July 26, 1941 (Hawthorne, California, United States)
Discography: Leader of the Pack | Darlene Love Live! | Paint Another Picture | The Best of Darlene Love | Bringing It Home | Unconditional Love | It’s Christmas of Course | So Much Love | The Sound of Love: The Very Best of Darlene Love
Filmography: Lethal Weapon | Lethal Weapon 2 | Lethal Weapon 3 | Lethal Weapon 4
Awards: Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Follow: Website
Tuesday, February 25 (2014)
St. Vincent (Singer: “St. Vincent”)
St. Vincent in the stage name of American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Annie Erin Clark. Her fourth album St. Vincent will be released on February 25, 2014. “Birth in Reverse” is the first single from the album and was released on December 9, 2013, while “Digital Witness” was released on January 6, 2014. St. Vincent has a unique musical style that borrows from the genres of indie pop, baroque pop, and art rock. Her work has been described as swinging between “happiness and madness” by O’Neal Sean of AV Club.
Born: September 28, 1982 (Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States)
Education: Lake Highlands High School
Discography: Marry Me | Actor | Strange Mercy | Love This Giant
Follow: Website | @St_Vincent
Wednesday, February 26 (2014)
Meryl Davis and Charlie White (Gold Medalists: Olympic Ice Dancing)
Meryl Davis and Charlie White are members of the US Olympic Team. They are ice-skating partners who have been training together since 1997, and recently won gold in couples ice dancing at the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia.
Born: Meryl: January 1, 1987 (West Bloomfield, Indiana, United States) | Charlie: October 27, 1987 (Bloomfield Hills, Indiana, United States)
Education: University of Michigan
Awards: 2014 Olympic Gold | 2010 Olympic Silver | 2011, 2013 World Champions | 2009-2014 US Champions | 2009-2013 Grand Prix Final Champions
Follow: Website | @Meryl_Davis | @CharlieaWhite
Thursday, February 27 (2014)
Jeff Goldblum (Actor: “The Grand Budapest Hotel”)
Jeff Goldblum is an American actor who stars in the upcoming film The Grand Budapest Hotel from director Wes Anderson, a British-German co-production. It stars Ralph Fiennes as M. Gustave H., a hotel concierge who is framed for the murder of his elderly lover (Tilda Swinton) and must work with his employee Zero Moustafa (Tony Revolori) to prove his innocence. The film features a large all-star cast, including Adrien Brody, Willem Dafoe, Jude Law, Harvey Keitel, Bill Murray, Edward Norton, Tom Wilkinson, Saoirse Ronan, Jason Schwartzman, Owen Wilson, and F. Murray Abraham as various hotel staff or townspeople who are swept up in the case. It premiered at the 64th Berlin International Film Festival and won the Jury Grand Prix Silver Bear Award, and garnering mostly positive early reviews.
Born: October 22, 1952 (West Homestead, Pennsylvania, United States)
Filmography: The Sentinel | Invasion of the Body Snatchers | The Fly | Silverado | Into the Night | Deep Cover | Jurassic Park | Independence Day | The Lost World Jurassic Park | The Prince of Egypt | Cats and Dogs | The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou | Pittsburgh | Man of the Year | The Switch | Morning Glory | Le Week-End
Television: Starsky and Hutch | Laverne and Shirley | Sesame Street | Captain Planet and the Planeteers | The Simpsons | Mr. Show with Bob and David | King of the Hill | Friends | Crank Yankers | Will and Grace | Law & Order Criminal Intent | Portlandia | Glee
Theater: The Pillowman | Two Gentlemen of Verona | The Play What I Wrote | The Moony Shapiro Songbook | The Exonerated | City Sugar | El Grande de Coca Cola | The Prisoner of Second Avenue | Speed-the-Plow | The Music Man
Awards: Saturn Award
And now, let’s check in with our good friend Jon Stewart over at ‘The Daily Show’!
Monday, February 24 (2014)
Hooman Majd (Author: “The Ministry of Guidance Invites You to Not Stay: An American Family in Iran”)
Hooman Majd is an Iranian-American writer and journalist who has written for Newsweek, The New Yorker, The New York Times, GQ, Salon, Foreign Policy, Politico, The Daily Beast, Reuters, and many more. Majd had a long career in the entertainment business before devoting himself to writing and journalism full-time. An American Family in Iran chronicles the author’s choice to take his wife and their new son on a year-long stay in Tehran, while viewing a dramatic year for the country from the inside.
Born: 1957 (Tehran, Iran)
Education: St. Paul’s School, London | George Washington University
Books: The Ayatollah Begs to Differ: The Paradox of Modern Iran | The Ayatollah’s Democracy: and Iranian Challenge
Follow: Website | @hmajd | Instagram
Tuesday, February 25
Michio Kaku (Author: “The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance, and Empower the Mind”)
Michio Kaku is an American theoretical physicist and Henry Semat Professor of Theoretical Physics at the City College of New York. He specializes in futurist theory and is a popular figure in science. He has appeared in several TV programs for the BBC, the Discovery Channel, the History Channel, and the Science Channel. His latest book,The Future of the Mind chronicles recent scientific discoveries and research about the human brain. One day, science may allow us to use our brains in way we never though possible: sending thoughts across a “brain net”, controlling electronics with our minds, sending our consciousness through space, and many more. Publisher’s Weekly praised it, saying that “the discussion, while heavily scientific, is engaging, clear, and replete with cinematic references … These new mental frontiers make for captivating reading.”
Born: January 24, 1947 (San Jose, California, United States)
Education: Cubberly High School | Harvard University | University of California, Berkeley
Books: Hyperspace | Beyond Einstein | Visions: How Science Will Revolutionize the 21st Century | Einstein’s Cosmos | Parallel Worlds | Physics of the Impossible | Physics of the Future
Previous ’Colbert Report’ Appearance(s): Interview – February 26, 2013
Follow: Website | @MachioKaku | Facebook | YouTube
Wednesday, February 2 (2014)
Liam Neeson (Actor: “Non-Stop”)
Liam Neeson is an Irish actor who stars in the upcoming French-American action film Non-Stop. On an international flight from New York to London, U.S. air marshal Bill Marks (Liam Neeson) must grapple with an extortionist who threatens to kill a passenger every 20 minutes unless $150 million is transferred into a secret bank account. Matters become more complicated when the bank account is found under Marks’ name and a bomb is confirmed to be on the plane. The film stars Julianne Moore, Michelle Dockery, and Lupita Nyong’o, and currently has a 97% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Unlike Neeson’s blunt and brutal Taken films, Non-Stop is more of an action-thriller, with its plane based setting making for claustrophobic and tense affairs, the film still manages to find room to stage fight scenes and gun violence.
Born: June 7, 1952 (Ballymena, County Antrim, Northern Ireland)
Filmography: Darkman | Schindler’s List | Rob Roy | Les Miserables | The Haunting | Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace | Gangs of New York | Love Actually | Kinsey | Kingdom of Heaven | Batman Begins | The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe | The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian | Ponyo | Clash of the Titans | The A-Team | The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader | The Grey | Wrath of the Titans | Taken | Taken 2 | The Lego Movie
Previous ’Daily Show’ Appearance(s): Interview – January 22, 2009 | January 17, 2012 | October 2, 2012
Thursday, February 27 (2014)
Kevin Roose (Author: “Young Money: Inside the Hidden World of Wall Street’s Post-Crash Recruits”)
Kevin Roose is an American author, writer, and journalist for New York magazine. His new book Young Money is about young Wall Street bankers who started their careers just after the financial crisis. The book examines just how the crisis changed the way young people experience a position on Wall Street. To write the book, Roose shadowed eight first and second-year workers at Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, and Merrill Lynch. The book has been named the Amazon Best Book of February 2014, and has received positive reviews from The Financial Times, Bloomberg Businessweek, Mother Jones, The Fiscal Times, Publisher’s Weekly, Booklist, and many more.
Books: The Unlikely Disciple
Follow: Website | @KevinRoose
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: February 24 – 27, 2014
Welcome to Better Know a Guest, your weekly guide to the wonderful and diverse array of personalities appearing on ‘The Colbert Report’ and ‘The Daily Show’ each week.
Hello Hubsters! Another week, another series of shows! It looks like a pretty interesting week to me! Also, Bill O’Reilly’s microwave for the Yellow Ribbon Fund sold for $5400. Way to go! I’m also interested to see what Stephen’s got in store for the last few days of the Olympics. What do you all want to see?
Stephen’s guests this week include two singers, two Olympians, and an actor.
Jon’s guests this week are two authors, a scientist, and an actor.
Monday, February 24 (2014)
Darlene Love (Documentary: “20 Feet From Stardom”)
Darlene Love is an American singer and actress. She appears in the American documentary film 20 Feet From Stardom, along with Judith Hill, Merry Clayton, Lisa Fischer, Tata Vega, and Jo Lawry, and various background singers. The film was produced by Gil Friesen, a music industry executive who was curious about the lives of the background singers who travel with famous performers. 20 Feet premiered at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, and has screened at many more festivals to universally positive reviews from critics. It is nominated for Best Documentary Feature at the 86th Academy Awards.
Born: July 26, 1941 (Hawthorne, California, United States)
Discography: Leader of the Pack | Darlene Love Live! | Paint Another Picture | The Best of Darlene Love | Bringing It Home | Unconditional Love | It’s Christmas of Course | So Much Love | The Sound of Love: The Very Best of Darlene Love
Filmography: Lethal Weapon | Lethal Weapon 2 | Lethal Weapon 3 | Lethal Weapon 4
Awards: Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Follow: Website
Tuesday, February 25 (2014)
St. Vincent (Singer: “St. Vincent”)
St. Vincent in the stage name of American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Annie Erin Clark. Her fourth album St. Vincent will be released on February 25, 2014. “Birth in Reverse” is the first single from the album and was released on December 9, 2013, while “Digital Witness” was released on January 6, 2014. St. Vincent has a unique musical style that borrows from the genres of indie pop, baroque pop, and art rock. Her work has been described as swinging between “happiness and madness” by O’Neal Sean of AV Club.
Born: September 28, 1982 (Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States)
Education: Lake Highlands High School
Discography: Marry Me | Actor | Strange Mercy | Love This Giant
Follow: Website | @St_Vincent
Wednesday, February 26 (2014)
Meryl Davis and Charlie White (Gold Medalists: Olympic Ice Dancing)
Meryl Davis and Charlie White are members of the US Olympic Team. They are ice-skating partners who have been training together since 1997, and recently won gold in couples ice dancing at the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia.
Born: Meryl: January 1, 1987 (West Bloomfield, Indiana, United States) | Charlie: October 27, 1987 (Bloomfield Hills, Indiana, United States)
Education: University of Michigan
Awards: 2014 Olympic Gold | 2010 Olympic Silver | 2011, 2013 World Champions | 2009-2014 US Champions | 2009-2013 Grand Prix Final Champions
Follow: Website | @Meryl_Davis | @CharlieaWhite
Thursday, February 27 (2014)
Jeff Goldblum (Actor: “The Grand Budapest Hotel”)
Jeff Goldblum is an American actor who stars in the upcoming film The Grand Budapest Hotel from director Wes Anderson, a British-German co-production. It stars Ralph Fiennes as M. Gustave H., a hotel concierge who is framed for the murder of his elderly lover (Tilda Swinton) and must work with his employee Zero Moustafa (Tony Revolori) to prove his innocence. The film features a large all-star cast, including Adrien Brody, Willem Dafoe, Jude Law, Harvey Keitel, Bill Murray, Edward Norton, Tom Wilkinson, Saoirse Ronan, Jason Schwartzman, Owen Wilson, and F. Murray Abraham as various hotel staff or townspeople who are swept up in the case. It premiered at the 64th Berlin International Film Festival and won the Jury Grand Prix Silver Bear Award, and garnering mostly positive early reviews.
Born: October 22, 1952 (West Homestead, Pennsylvania, United States)
Filmography: The Sentinel | Invasion of the Body Snatchers | The Fly | Silverado | Into the Night | Deep Cover | Jurassic Park | Independence Day | The Lost World Jurassic Park | The Prince of Egypt | Cats and Dogs | The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou | Pittsburgh | Man of the Year | The Switch | Morning Glory | Le Week-End
Television: Starsky and Hutch | Laverne and Shirley | Sesame Street | Captain Planet and the Planeteers | The Simpsons | Mr. Show with Bob and David | King of the Hill | Friends | Crank Yankers | Will and Grace | Law & Order Criminal Intent | Portlandia | Glee
Theater: The Pillowman | Two Gentlemen of Verona | The Play What I Wrote | The Moony Shapiro Songbook | The Exonerated | City Sugar | El Grande de Coca Cola | The Prisoner of Second Avenue | Speed-the-Plow | The Music Man
Awards: Saturn Award
And now, let’s check in with our good friend Jon Stewart over at ‘The Daily Show’!
Monday, February 24 (2014)
Hooman Majd (Author: “The Ministry of Guidance Invites You to Not Stay: An American Family in Iran”)
Hooman Majd is an Iranian-American writer and journalist who has written for Newsweek, The New Yorker, The New York Times, GQ, Salon, Foreign Policy, Politico, The Daily Beast, Reuters, and many more. Majd had a long career in the entertainment business before devoting himself to writing and journalism full-time. An American Family in Iran chronicles the author’s choice to take his wife and their new son on a year-long stay in Tehran, while viewing a dramatic year for the country from the inside.
Born: 1957 (Tehran, Iran)
Education: St. Paul’s School, London | George Washington University
Books: The Ayatollah Begs to Differ: The Paradox of Modern Iran | The Ayatollah’s Democracy: and Iranian Challenge
Follow: Website | @hmajd | Instagram
Tuesday, February 25
Michio Kaku (Author: “The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance, and Empower the Mind”)
Michio Kaku is an American theoretical physicist and Henry Semat Professor of Theoretical Physics at the City College of New York. He specializes in futurist theory and is a popular figure in science. He has appeared in several TV programs for the BBC, the Discovery Channel, the History Channel, and the Science Channel. His latest book,The Future of the Mind chronicles recent scientific discoveries and research about the human brain. One day, science may allow us to use our brains in way we never though possible: sending thoughts across a “brain net”, controlling electronics with our minds, sending our consciousness through space, and many more. Publisher’s Weekly praised it, saying that “the discussion, while heavily scientific, is engaging, clear, and replete with cinematic references … These new mental frontiers make for captivating reading.”
Born: January 24, 1947 (San Jose, California, United States)
Education: Cubberly High School | Harvard University | University of California, Berkeley
Books: Hyperspace | Beyond Einstein | Visions: How Science Will Revolutionize the 21st Century | Einstein’s Cosmos | Parallel Worlds | Physics of the Impossible | Physics of the Future
Previous ’Colbert Report’ Appearance(s): Interview – February 26, 2013
Follow: Website | @MachioKaku | Facebook | YouTube
Wednesday, February 2 (2014)
Liam Neeson (Actor: “Non-Stop”)
Liam Neeson is an Irish actor who stars in the upcoming French-American action film Non-Stop. On an international flight from New York to London, U.S. air marshal Bill Marks (Liam Neeson) must grapple with an extortionist who threatens to kill a passenger every 20 minutes unless $150 million is transferred into a secret bank account. Matters become more complicated when the bank account is found under Marks’ name and a bomb is confirmed to be on the plane. The film stars Julianne Moore, Michelle Dockery, and Lupita Nyong’o, and currently has a 97% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Unlike Neeson’s blunt and brutal Taken films, Non-Stop is more of an action-thriller, with its plane based setting making for claustrophobic and tense affairs, the film still manages to find room to stage fight scenes and gun violence.
Born: June 7, 1952 (Ballymena, County Antrim, Northern Ireland)
Filmography: Darkman | Schindler’s List | Rob Roy | Les Miserables | The Haunting | Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace | Gangs of New York | Love Actually | Kinsey | Kingdom of Heaven | Batman Begins | The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe | The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian | Ponyo | Clash of the Titans | The A-Team | The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader | The Grey | Wrath of the Titans | Taken | Taken 2 | The Lego Movie
Previous ’Daily Show’ Appearance(s): Interview – January 22, 2009 | January 17, 2012 | October 2, 2012
Thursday, February 27 (2014)
Kevin Roose (Author: “Young Money: Inside the Hidden World of Wall Street’s Post-Crash Recruits”)
Kevin Roose is an American author, writer, and journalist for New York magazine. His new book Young Money is about young Wall Street bankers who started their careers just after the financial crisis. The book examines just how the crisis changed the way young people experience a position on Wall Street. To write the book, Roose shadowed eight first and second-year workers at Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, and Merrill Lynch. The book has been named the Amazon Best Book of February 2014, and has received positive reviews from The Financial Times, Bloomberg Businessweek, Mother Jones, The Fiscal Times, Publisher’s Weekly, Booklist, and many more.
Books: The Unlikely Disciple
Follow: Website | @KevinRoose
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!