Six Degrees – August Catch Up

Welcome to the ‘Six Degrees Catch Up Edition’ featuring all the latest happenings and goings on in the world of ‘Daily Show’ and ‘Colbert Report’ staff and ‘Friends of the Show’.

In this month’s catch up we have life advice from Lewis Black, Aasif Mandvi and Larry Wilmore have new shows in the pipeline, John Oliver and fellow Daily Show writers tour the Middle East for the USO, as well as interviews with Opus Moreschi, John Oliver, Larry Wilmore and Amy Sedaris, and a first look at Steve Carell in ‘Foxcatcher’.

The Colbert Report

• Opus Moreschi was recently a guest on ‘Menage a Trois’.

• Trevor Potter recently spoke at the Chautauqua 2013 lecture series on ‘Markets, Morals and the Social Contract,’ which focused on ‘the ever expanding role of money in politics and the unique challenges America faces in a post-Citizens United world.’

The Daily Show

• Aasif Mandvi has signed on for a recurring guest spot on the new FOX series ‘Us and Them’.

• Adam Lowitt, Elliott Kalan, John Oliver and Rory Albanese visited the Middle East during August to entertain American troops as part of a USO tour.

• Dan McCoy and Elliott Kalan talk to the A.V Club about their favourite episodes of their hit bad movie podcast, ‘The Flop House’.

• John Oliver was recently a guest on ‘Charlie Rose’.

• Larry Wilmore is developing a new comedy series for HBO with Issa Rae, which will focus on ‘the awkward experiences and racy tribulations of a modern-day African-American woman.’

• Larry Wilmore is featured on Episode 22 of J.R. Havlan’s ‘Writers Bloc’ Podcast.

• GQ Magazine features Lewis Black’s ‘Life Advice for Millennials’.

Friends of the Show

• Entertainment Weekly reveals the first look photo of a transformed Steve Carell as the real life killer John duPont in ‘Foxcatcher’ (in cinemas December 20th).