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.
Hi there Hubsters! This weeks Better Know A Guest has everything: actors, activists, show hosts, musicians, and basketball coaches. So let’s get to it!
Don’t forget to vote in our weekly favourite guest poll!!
Monday, May 20th (2013)
David Sassoon (Founder and Publisher: InsideClimateNews.org)
David Sassoon is a editor, publisher and writer. He’s been involved in research involving areas like human rights, cultural preservation, healthcare, the environment, and education. something else he is known for is that he worked for the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, beginning in 2003. They work that he did as part of the group was lead to was both the listing of various businesses carbon emissions and the decision to work on decreasing those carbon emissions. In 2007, following that work he did he created a blog that would later became the award winning site InsideClimate News.
Education: Harvard University | Columbia’s University Graduate School of Journalism
Awards: Pulitzer Prize for Journalism
Follow: Website | @InsideClimate
Tuesday, May 21st (2013)
Noah Feldman (Author: “Cool War: The Future of Global Competition”)
Noah Feldman is a law professor at Harvard Law School, columnist, author and a Senior Fellow at Society of Fellows at Harvard. He has also been a contributing writer for the New York Times, an adjunct Senior Fellow on the Council on Foreign Relations. He has also been a part of the Senior Constitutional Advisor to Iraqi Constitutional Process as a Coalition Provisional Authority. He has also been a Carnegie Scholar and a professor at Yale Law School and New York University School of Law.
Previous ‘Colbert Report’ Appearance: Interview – April 30, 2008
Born: 1970
Education: Harvard College | University of Oxford | Yale Law School
Follow: @NoahRFeldmen
Wednesday, May 22nd (2013)
The National (Album: “Trouble Will Find Me”)
The National is an indie rock band that formed in 1999. The band consists of Matt Berninger, who is the singer and lyricist for the band. The other members of the band are two sets of brother, who take up the instruments. Aaron Dessner plays the guitar and keyboard; his twin brother Bryce plays the guitar. The remaining members are Scott and Bryan Devendorf who play the bass and drums, respectively. The band got big with their self titled debut album; which was released in 2001.
Follow: Website | @The_National
Thursday, May 23rd (2013)
C.J. Chivers (Reporter: The New York Times)
C.J. Chivers is an journalist, author and works for the New York Times. He worked for the Times first in 1999, covering the NYPD. Later he became a foreign correspondent, where he covered most areas of the Middle East and also in all of former Soviet Union nations. As an author he’s wrote The Gun, a book about the social history of the AK-47. He’s also done work for Esquire, Wired, Surfer, Foreign Affairs and Military History Quarterly.
Born: 1964
Education: Cornell University | Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Awards: Pulitzer Prize
Follow: Website | @CJChivers
And now to check in with our good friend Jon Stewart, over at The Daily Show!
Monday, May 20th (2013)
Ellen Page (Actress: “The East”)
Ellen Page is an actress best known for her roles in the films Juno as the title character and Inception where she played Aridane. She first began acting when she was 4 in various plays. At 10, she made her television debut on the show Pit Pony. From that point on her appeared mainly in television roles until 2005 when she had her first major film role in Hard Candy. After Juno however, her career really took off. She also has appeared in the films Whip It, Super, Smart People, and as the narrator of the documentary Vanishing of the Bees.
Born: Feburary 21, 1987
Education: Vaughan Road Academy
Awards: Independent Spirit Award (Best Lead Female) | Teen Choice Award (Choice Movie Actress: Comedy) | Teen Choice Award (Choice Movie: Breakout Female) | MTV Movie Awards (Best Female Performance) | Saturn Award (Best Actress)
Follow: @EllenPage
Tuesday, May 21st (2013)
Phil Jackson (Author: “Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success”)
Phil Jackson is former NBA player and coach. As a player he played for the New York Knicks during the 1970s, where he won two champions of his own. As a coach he is considered to be one of the greatest in the history of the NBA. He served as the head coach of the Chicago Bulls from 1989 to 1998, where he and a general manager of the team clashed. After his contract went out he served as the head coach for the Los Angeles Lakers from 2000 to 2010. He’s credited as being one of greatest in the NBA’s history in part because his teams have won 11 titles in the past 20 years.
Born: September 17, 1945
Education: University of North Dakota
Awards: 1996 Coach of the Year Award | Amos Alonzo Stagg Coaching Award
Follow: @PhilJackson11
Wednesday, May 22nd (2013)
Bill O’Reilly (Author: “Keep It Pithy: Useful Observations in a Tough World”)
Bill O’Reilly is a frequent guest of The Daily Show, along with being a political commentator/the host for the Fox News program The O’Reilly Factor and a historian, journalist, columnist and author. His career first began in the late 70s where he worked as a reporter for various news stations before moving onto CBS News and later ABC News. He also served as the host of Inside Edition from 1989 to 1995, before moving onto Fox News in October 1996. As an author he has written 10 books, including Killing Lincoln, Killing Kennedy, Culture Warrior, Those Who Trespass and The No Spin Zone.
Born: September 10, 1949
Education: Marist College | Boston University | Harvard University
Awards: National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Governors’ Award
Previous ‘Daily Show’ Appearances: Interview – October 4, 2012 | September 28, 2011 | September 27, 2010 | November, 13, 2008 [Part 1] | [Part 2] | October 15, 2005 | October 7, 2004 [Part 1] | [Part 2] | March 14, 2002 | January 22, 2001
Follow: Website | @O’ReillyFactor
Thursday, May 24th (2013)
Morgan Freeman (Actor: “Now You See Me”)
Morgan Freeman is an actor best known for his roles in films such as Driving Miss Daisy, Street Smart, The Shawhank Redemption, Invictus, Million Dollar Baby, Unforgiven, Glory, Seven, Deep Impact, March of the Penguins,The Bucket List, Bruce Almighty, and The Dark Knight Trilogy. His first became known through his work on The Electric Company but gained the most fame through his film roles, which first happened in 1989 with the release of Driving Miss Daisy.
Previous ‘Daily Show’ Appearance: Interview – June 2, 2010
Born: June 1, 1937
Education: Board Street High School
Awards: Independent Spirit Award (Best Supporting Male) | Golden Globe Award (Best Actor) | Empire Award (Best Actor) | Screen Actors Guild Award (Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role) | Cecil B. DeMille Award
That’s it for this week Hubsters! See you next time!
Better Know A Guest: May 20 – 24, 2013
Hi there Hubsters! This weeks Better Know A Guest has everything: actors, activists, show hosts, musicians, and basketball coaches. So let’s get to it!
Don’t forget to vote in our weekly favourite guest poll!!
Monday, May 20th (2013)
David Sassoon (Founder and Publisher: InsideClimateNews.org)
David Sassoon is a editor, publisher and writer. He’s been involved in research involving areas like human rights, cultural preservation, healthcare, the environment, and education. something else he is known for is that he worked for the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, beginning in 2003. They work that he did as part of the group was lead to was both the listing of various businesses carbon emissions and the decision to work on decreasing those carbon emissions. In 2007, following that work he did he created a blog that would later became the award winning site InsideClimate News.
Education: Harvard University | Columbia’s University Graduate School of Journalism
Awards: Pulitzer Prize for Journalism
Follow: Website | @InsideClimate
Tuesday, May 21st (2013)
Noah Feldman (Author: “Cool War: The Future of Global Competition”)
Noah Feldman is a law professor at Harvard Law School, columnist, author and a Senior Fellow at Society of Fellows at Harvard. He has also been a contributing writer for the New York Times, an adjunct Senior Fellow on the Council on Foreign Relations. He has also been a part of the Senior Constitutional Advisor to Iraqi Constitutional Process as a Coalition Provisional Authority. He has also been a Carnegie Scholar and a professor at Yale Law School and New York University School of Law.
Previous ‘Colbert Report’ Appearance: Interview – April 30, 2008
Born: 1970
Education: Harvard College | University of Oxford | Yale Law School
Follow: @NoahRFeldmen
Wednesday, May 22nd (2013)
The National (Album: “Trouble Will Find Me”)
The National is an indie rock band that formed in 1999. The band consists of Matt Berninger, who is the singer and lyricist for the band. The other members of the band are two sets of brother, who take up the instruments. Aaron Dessner plays the guitar and keyboard; his twin brother Bryce plays the guitar. The remaining members are Scott and Bryan Devendorf who play the bass and drums, respectively. The band got big with their self titled debut album; which was released in 2001.
Follow: Website | @The_National
Thursday, May 23rd (2013)
C.J. Chivers (Reporter: The New York Times)
C.J. Chivers is an journalist, author and works for the New York Times. He worked for the Times first in 1999, covering the NYPD. Later he became a foreign correspondent, where he covered most areas of the Middle East and also in all of former Soviet Union nations. As an author he’s wrote The Gun, a book about the social history of the AK-47. He’s also done work for Esquire, Wired, Surfer, Foreign Affairs and Military History Quarterly.
Born: 1964
Education: Cornell University | Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Awards: Pulitzer Prize
Follow: Website | @CJChivers
And now to check in with our good friend Jon Stewart, over at The Daily Show!
Monday, May 20th (2013)
Ellen Page (Actress: “The East”)
Ellen Page is an actress best known for her roles in the films Juno as the title character and Inception where she played Aridane. She first began acting when she was 4 in various plays. At 10, she made her television debut on the show Pit Pony. From that point on her appeared mainly in television roles until 2005 when she had her first major film role in Hard Candy. After Juno however, her career really took off. She also has appeared in the films Whip It, Super, Smart People, and as the narrator of the documentary Vanishing of the Bees.
Born: Feburary 21, 1987
Education: Vaughan Road Academy
Awards: Independent Spirit Award (Best Lead Female) | Teen Choice Award (Choice Movie Actress: Comedy) | Teen Choice Award (Choice Movie: Breakout Female) | MTV Movie Awards (Best Female Performance) | Saturn Award (Best Actress)
Follow: @EllenPage
Tuesday, May 21st (2013)
Phil Jackson (Author: “Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success”)
Phil Jackson is former NBA player and coach. As a player he played for the New York Knicks during the 1970s, where he won two champions of his own. As a coach he is considered to be one of the greatest in the history of the NBA. He served as the head coach of the Chicago Bulls from 1989 to 1998, where he and a general manager of the team clashed. After his contract went out he served as the head coach for the Los Angeles Lakers from 2000 to 2010. He’s credited as being one of greatest in the NBA’s history in part because his teams have won 11 titles in the past 20 years.
Born: September 17, 1945
Education: University of North Dakota
Awards: 1996 Coach of the Year Award | Amos Alonzo Stagg Coaching Award
Follow: @PhilJackson11
Wednesday, May 22nd (2013)
Bill O’Reilly (Author: “Keep It Pithy: Useful Observations in a Tough World”)
Bill O’Reilly is a frequent guest of The Daily Show, along with being a political commentator/the host for the Fox News program The O’Reilly Factor and a historian, journalist, columnist and author. His career first began in the late 70s where he worked as a reporter for various news stations before moving onto CBS News and later ABC News. He also served as the host of Inside Edition from 1989 to 1995, before moving onto Fox News in October 1996. As an author he has written 10 books, including Killing Lincoln, Killing Kennedy, Culture Warrior, Those Who Trespass and The No Spin Zone.
Born: September 10, 1949
Education: Marist College | Boston University | Harvard University
Awards: National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Governors’ Award
Previous ‘Daily Show’ Appearances: Interview – October 4, 2012 | September 28, 2011 | September 27, 2010 | November, 13, 2008 [Part 1] | [Part 2] | October 15, 2005 | October 7, 2004 [Part 1] | [Part 2] | March 14, 2002 | January 22, 2001
Follow: Website | @O’ReillyFactor
Thursday, May 24th (2013)
Morgan Freeman (Actor: “Now You See Me”)
Morgan Freeman is an actor best known for his roles in films such as Driving Miss Daisy, Street Smart, The Shawhank Redemption, Invictus, Million Dollar Baby, Unforgiven, Glory, Seven, Deep Impact, March of the Penguins,The Bucket List, Bruce Almighty, and The Dark Knight Trilogy. His first became known through his work on The Electric Company but gained the most fame through his film roles, which first happened in 1989 with the release of Driving Miss Daisy.
Previous ‘Daily Show’ Appearance: Interview – June 2, 2010
Born: June 1, 1937
Education: Board Street High School
Awards: Independent Spirit Award (Best Supporting Male) | Golden Globe Award (Best Actor) | Empire Award (Best Actor) | Screen Actors Guild Award (Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role) | Cecil B. DeMille Award
That’s it for this week Hubsters! See you next time!