Six Degrees – February 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 new music from Bryan Dinello, interviews with Jon Stewart, Elliott Kalan, Jessica Williams, Lewis Black, Neil deGrasse Tyson and Steve Carell, humour pieces from Amy and David Sedaris, and John Oliver’s new HBO series gets a premiere date.

The Colbert Report

  • Congratulations to talent booker, Monica Hickey who was recently married in Manhattan.
  • Trevor Potter and the Campaign Legal Center are among three Washington area nonprofit groups that have received the MacArthur Award for Creative and Effective Institutions.

The Daily Show

  • Jon Stewart talks to Vulture about his days as a bartender at New Jersey’s greatest punk club, City Gardens.
  • Elliott Kalan talks to ‘Splitsider’ about becoming a new father, his new role as head writer of ‘The Daily Show’, and how it differs from working as a staff writer.
  • ‘Splitsider’ talk to Jessica Williams about her rapid rise from being California college student to becoming an integral part of ‘The Daily Show’ team.

Friends of the Show

  • ‘The Wall Street Journal’ recently asked six luminaries, including Amy Sedaris (and Alan Cumming) to weigh in on a single topic. This months topic was style.
  • David Sedaris has written a new humour piece for ‘Hapers Bazaar’ about mood lighting, entitled “The Shadow of Your Smile”.
  • ‘The New Yorker’ recently profiled Neil deGrasse Tyson who is currently wrapping shooting as host of the “Cosmos” series.
  • Neil deGrasse Tyson stopped by @Midnight to read an interstellar Craigslist post about finding that special someone.
  • Neil deGrasse Tyson talks to ‘NPR’ and explains why the cosmos should not make you feel so small, and why he (very) briefly considered a career as an exotic dancer.