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.
Hey there Hubsters! The guest list for this week’s series of shows features political scientist Andrew Bacevich, the United States Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, author Nicholson Baker, and musician Jack Johnson.
Monday, September 16 (2013)
Andrew Bacevich (Author: “Breach of Trust: How Americans Failed Their Soldiers and Their Country”)
Andrew Bacevich is an American political scientist. His work focuses on international relations,security studies, American foreign policy, and America’s diplomatic and military history. Bacevich is a professor of international relations and history at Boston University, following up a long career in the United States Army. His op-eds have appeared in The New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, the Boston Globe, and the Financial Times. Bacevich also currently serves on the Council on Foreign Relations. His book Breach of Trust examines the divide between the military and the American people, and the effect that constant war has had on the relationship.
Born: July 5, 1947 (Normal, Illinois, United States)
Education: West Point | Princeton University
Works: The Pentomic Era| American Empire | The New American Militarism | The Long War | The Limits of Power | Washington Rules
Previous Colbert Report Appearance(s): Interview – AUMF Repeal – May 23, 2013
Tuesday, September 17 (2013)
Arne Duncan (United States Secretary of Education)
Arne Duncan is an American education administrator and has been the United States Secretary of Education since 2009. He was previously a CEO of Chicago Public Schools. Duncan will be discussing the American education system.
Born: November 6, 1964 (Chicago, Illinois, United States)
Education: University of Chicago Labratory Schools | Harvard University
Previous ‘Colbert Report’ Appearance(s): Interview– October 5, 2009
Previous ‘Daily Show’ Appearance(s): Interview — February 16, 2012
Follow: @ArneDuncan
Wednesday, September 18 (2013)
Nicholson Baker (Author: “Traveling Sprinkler: A Novel”)
Nicholson Baker is an American author, who writes both fiction and nonfiction. His fictional works focus on his characters’ stream of conscious narration. Baker’s works focus on poetry, literature, library systems, history, politics, time manipulation, youth and sex. His nonprofit organisation the American Newspaper Repository rescues old print media that is in danger of being thrown out of libraries. Baker believes that libraries destroy valuable print resources in favor of needlessly replacing them with microfilm, destroying valuable public and historic information in the process. His most recent book, Traveling Sprinkler: A Novel, tells the story of Paul Chowder, a man who turns to learning the craft of songwriting to help him cope with events in his personal life and in the world at large.
Born: January 7, 1957 (New York City, New York, United States)
Education: Eastman School of Music | Haverford College
Works: The Mezzanine | Room Temperature | U and I: A True Story | Vox | The Fermata | The Everlasting Story of Ivory | Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper | A Box of Matches | Checkpoint | Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization | The Anthologist | House of Holes
Thursday, September 19 (2013)
Jack Johnson (Musician: “From Here to Now to You”)
Jack Johnson is an American folk-rock singer, songwriter, surfer, filmmaker, and musician. He rose to prominence with his debut album Brushfire Fairytales, and has since gone onto release five albums. His new album folk rock album, From Here to Now to You, will be released on September 17th.
Born: May 18, 1975 (North Shore, Oahu, Hawaii, United States
Education: Kahuku High School | University of California, Santa Barbara
Albums: Brushfire Fairytales | In Between Dreams | Curious George | Sleep Through the Static | To The Sea
Awards: ESPN Film Festival Award | ESPN Action, Sports, and Music Award | Surfer Magazine Award | BRIT Award | Billboard Touring Award | ASCAP Pop Music Award
Follow: Website | @JackJohnson | Facebook | Myspace
And now, let’s check in with our good friend Jon Stewart over at ‘The Daily Show’!
Monday, September 16 (2013)
Robert Reich (Presenter: “Inequality for All”)
Robert Reich is an American political economist, professor, author, and political commentator. He is the Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley and has served in three presidential administrations, those of Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, and Bill Clinton (as Secretary of Labor 1994-97). He is a frequent political commentator on television and radio, has written many books on American politics and economics, and maintains his own blog on the subject. His upcoming documentary with director Jacob Kornbluth Inequality for All looks at the widening gap income gap in the United States and considers the implications it will have on the nation’s health.
Born: June 24, 1946 (Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States)
Education: John Jay High School | Dartmouth College | Oxford University | Yale Law School
Works: Supercapitalism: The Transformation of Business, Democracy, Everyday Life | Beyond Outrage: What Has Gone Wrong With Our Economy and Our Democracy and How to Fix It
Previous ‘Daily Show’ Appearance(s): Interview– June 16 2004 | April 18, 2005 | October 16, 2008 | April 18 2012
Previous ‘Daily Show’ Appearance(s): Interview– October 11, 2010
Follow: Blog | @RBReich | Facebook
Tuesday, September 17 (2013)
Jake Gyllenhaal (Actor: “Prisoners”)
Jake Gyllenhaal is an American actor, who began acting at the age of ten, with a breakout role in the indie film Donnie Darko . Gyllenhaal has appeared in many films since then, the most famous (and controversial) being Brokeback Mountain. The performance earned him an Academy Award nomination and widespread praise. He is active in politics and has campaigned for Rock the Vote and the American Civil Liberties Union and has an interest in environmental issues. His upcoming film Prisoners follows Keller Dover (Hugh Jackman), a man who takes the law into his own hands and captures the man he feels is behind the disappearance of his two daughters. In doing so he clashes with the town’s detective (Jake Gyllenhaal).
Born: December 19, 1980 (Los Angeles, California, United States)
Filmography: Donnie Darko | The Day After Tomorrow | Brokeback Mountain | Jarhead | Zodiac | Prince of Persia: Sands of Time | Love and Other Drugs | Source Code
Awards: Young Hollywood Award | Chlotrudis Award | National Board of Review Award | MTV Movie Award | BAFTA Award | Palm Springs International Film Festival Award | National Arts Award
Previous ‘Daily Show’ Appearance(s): Interviews– October 7, 2002 | February 28, 2007 | October 17, 2007 | March 30, 2011
Wednesday, September 18 (2013)
Hugh Jackman (Actor: “Prisoners”)
Hugh Jackman is an Australian actor and producer who is involved in film, musical theater, and television (where he met his wife, Australian actress Deborra-Lee Furness). Jackman began his career in television and on stage before landing one of his most popular roles as Wolverine in the X-Men franchise. He has since starred in many films and performed on Broadway, and has hosted several award shows, having hosted the Tonys three times and the Academy Awards once. He stars alongside Jake Gyllenhall in his latest movie Prisoners, and will reprise his role as Wolverine in the upcoming X-Men: Days of Future Past.
Born: October 12,1968 (Sydney, New South Wales, Australia)
Education: Knox Grammar School | University of Technology, Sydney | Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts
Filmography: X-Men | Kate and Leopold | X2 | Van Helsing | The Prestige | The Fountain | Australia | X-Men Origins: Wolverine | Real Steel | Les Miserables | The Wolverine
Previous ‘Daily Show’ Appearance(s): Interview — April 30, 2009 | October 5, 2011
Follow: @RealHughJackman | Facebook
Thursday, September 19 (2013)
Chelsea Clinton (Clinton Global Initiative)
Chelsea Clinton is the only child of former US president Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. She is a special correspondent for NBC News and works with her parents’ foundations, the Clinton Foundation and the Clinton Global Initiative. She has campaigned for her mother’s unsuccessful bid for the Democratic presidential nomination in the 2008 election.
Born: February 7, 1980 (Little Rock, Arkansas, United States)
Education: Sidwell Friends School | Stanford University | University College, Oxford | Columbia University
Previous ‘Colbert Report’ Appearance(s): Interview — Clinton Global Initiative University Exchange Fair
Follow: @ChelseaClinton
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: September 16 – 19, 2013
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.
Hey there Hubsters! The guest list for this week’s series of shows features political scientist Andrew Bacevich, the United States Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, author Nicholson Baker, and musician Jack Johnson.
Monday, September 16 (2013)
Andrew Bacevich (Author: “Breach of Trust: How Americans Failed Their Soldiers and Their Country”)
Andrew Bacevich is an American political scientist. His work focuses on international relations,security studies, American foreign policy, and America’s diplomatic and military history. Bacevich is a professor of international relations and history at Boston University, following up a long career in the United States Army. His op-eds have appeared in The New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, the Boston Globe, and the Financial Times. Bacevich also currently serves on the Council on Foreign Relations. His book Breach of Trust examines the divide between the military and the American people, and the effect that constant war has had on the relationship.
Born: July 5, 1947 (Normal, Illinois, United States)
Education: West Point | Princeton University
Works: The Pentomic Era| American Empire | The New American Militarism | The Long War | The Limits of Power | Washington Rules
Previous Colbert Report Appearance(s): Interview – AUMF Repeal – May 23, 2013
Tuesday, September 17 (2013)
Arne Duncan (United States Secretary of Education)
Arne Duncan is an American education administrator and has been the United States Secretary of Education since 2009. He was previously a CEO of Chicago Public Schools. Duncan will be discussing the American education system.
Born: November 6, 1964 (Chicago, Illinois, United States)
Education: University of Chicago Labratory Schools | Harvard University
Previous ‘Colbert Report’ Appearance(s): Interview– October 5, 2009
Previous ‘Daily Show’ Appearance(s): Interview — February 16, 2012
Follow: @ArneDuncan
Wednesday, September 18 (2013)
Nicholson Baker (Author: “Traveling Sprinkler: A Novel”)
Nicholson Baker is an American author, who writes both fiction and nonfiction. His fictional works focus on his characters’ stream of conscious narration. Baker’s works focus on poetry, literature, library systems, history, politics, time manipulation, youth and sex. His nonprofit organisation the American Newspaper Repository rescues old print media that is in danger of being thrown out of libraries. Baker believes that libraries destroy valuable print resources in favor of needlessly replacing them with microfilm, destroying valuable public and historic information in the process. His most recent book, Traveling Sprinkler: A Novel, tells the story of Paul Chowder, a man who turns to learning the craft of songwriting to help him cope with events in his personal life and in the world at large.
Born: January 7, 1957 (New York City, New York, United States)
Education: Eastman School of Music | Haverford College
Works: The Mezzanine | Room Temperature | U and I: A True Story | Vox | The Fermata | The Everlasting Story of Ivory | Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper | A Box of Matches | Checkpoint | Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization | The Anthologist | House of Holes
Thursday, September 19 (2013)
Jack Johnson (Musician: “From Here to Now to You”)
Jack Johnson is an American folk-rock singer, songwriter, surfer, filmmaker, and musician. He rose to prominence with his debut album Brushfire Fairytales, and has since gone onto release five albums. His new album folk rock album, From Here to Now to You, will be released on September 17th.
Born: May 18, 1975 (North Shore, Oahu, Hawaii, United States
Education: Kahuku High School | University of California, Santa Barbara
Albums: Brushfire Fairytales | In Between Dreams | Curious George | Sleep Through the Static | To The Sea
Awards: ESPN Film Festival Award | ESPN Action, Sports, and Music Award | Surfer Magazine Award | BRIT Award | Billboard Touring Award | ASCAP Pop Music Award
Follow: Website | @JackJohnson | Facebook | Myspace
And now, let’s check in with our good friend Jon Stewart over at ‘The Daily Show’!
Monday, September 16 (2013)
Robert Reich (Presenter: “Inequality for All”)
Robert Reich is an American political economist, professor, author, and political commentator. He is the Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley and has served in three presidential administrations, those of Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, and Bill Clinton (as Secretary of Labor 1994-97). He is a frequent political commentator on television and radio, has written many books on American politics and economics, and maintains his own blog on the subject. His upcoming documentary with director Jacob Kornbluth Inequality for All looks at the widening gap income gap in the United States and considers the implications it will have on the nation’s health.
Born: June 24, 1946 (Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States)
Education: John Jay High School | Dartmouth College | Oxford University | Yale Law School
Works: Supercapitalism: The Transformation of Business, Democracy, Everyday Life | Beyond Outrage: What Has Gone Wrong With Our Economy and Our Democracy and How to Fix It
Previous ‘Daily Show’ Appearance(s): Interview– June 16 2004 | April 18, 2005 | October 16, 2008 | April 18 2012
Previous ‘Daily Show’ Appearance(s): Interview– October 11, 2010
Follow: Blog | @RBReich | Facebook
Tuesday, September 17 (2013)
Jake Gyllenhaal (Actor: “Prisoners”)
Jake Gyllenhaal is an American actor, who began acting at the age of ten, with a breakout role in the indie film Donnie Darko . Gyllenhaal has appeared in many films since then, the most famous (and controversial) being Brokeback Mountain. The performance earned him an Academy Award nomination and widespread praise. He is active in politics and has campaigned for Rock the Vote and the American Civil Liberties Union and has an interest in environmental issues. His upcoming film Prisoners follows Keller Dover (Hugh Jackman), a man who takes the law into his own hands and captures the man he feels is behind the disappearance of his two daughters. In doing so he clashes with the town’s detective (Jake Gyllenhaal).
Born: December 19, 1980 (Los Angeles, California, United States)
Filmography: Donnie Darko | The Day After Tomorrow | Brokeback Mountain | Jarhead | Zodiac | Prince of Persia: Sands of Time | Love and Other Drugs | Source Code
Awards: Young Hollywood Award | Chlotrudis Award | National Board of Review Award | MTV Movie Award | BAFTA Award | Palm Springs International Film Festival Award | National Arts Award
Previous ‘Daily Show’ Appearance(s): Interviews– October 7, 2002 | February 28, 2007 | October 17, 2007 | March 30, 2011
Wednesday, September 18 (2013)
Hugh Jackman (Actor: “Prisoners”)
Hugh Jackman is an Australian actor and producer who is involved in film, musical theater, and television (where he met his wife, Australian actress Deborra-Lee Furness). Jackman began his career in television and on stage before landing one of his most popular roles as Wolverine in the X-Men franchise. He has since starred in many films and performed on Broadway, and has hosted several award shows, having hosted the Tonys three times and the Academy Awards once. He stars alongside Jake Gyllenhall in his latest movie Prisoners, and will reprise his role as Wolverine in the upcoming X-Men: Days of Future Past.
Born: October 12,1968 (Sydney, New South Wales, Australia)
Education: Knox Grammar School | University of Technology, Sydney | Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts
Filmography: X-Men | Kate and Leopold | X2 | Van Helsing | The Prestige | The Fountain | Australia | X-Men Origins: Wolverine | Real Steel | Les Miserables | The Wolverine
Previous ‘Daily Show’ Appearance(s): Interview — April 30, 2009 | October 5, 2011
Follow: @RealHughJackman | Facebook
Thursday, September 19 (2013)
Chelsea Clinton (Clinton Global Initiative)
Chelsea Clinton is the only child of former US president Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. She is a special correspondent for NBC News and works with her parents’ foundations, the Clinton Foundation and the Clinton Global Initiative. She has campaigned for her mother’s unsuccessful bid for the Democratic presidential nomination in the 2008 election.
Born: February 7, 1980 (Little Rock, Arkansas, United States)
Education: Sidwell Friends School | Stanford University | University College, Oxford | Columbia University
Previous ‘Colbert Report’ Appearance(s): Interview — Clinton Global Initiative University Exchange Fair
Follow: @ChelseaClinton
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!