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Article: JON STEWART TO HOST 65TH ANNUAL PEABODY AWARDS
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- March 20, 2006
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The University of Georgia issued the following press release:
Jon Stewart, host of Comedy Central's award-winning, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, will host the 65th Annual George Foster Peabody Awards ceremony on Monday, June 5 at the Waldorf=Astoria in New York City.
Stewart, awarded two Peabodys for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart: Indecision 2000 and The Daily Show with Jon Stewart: Indecision 2004, was praised by the Peabody board for providing "the kind of cathartic satire that deflates pomposity on an equal opportunity basis. Somehow this sharp commentary makes the real issues more important than ever."
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