Jon Stewart and Writers of The Daily Show Win Thurber Prize
On November 14, it was announced that Jon Stewart, David Javerbaum, and Ben Karlin, authors of The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Presents America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy In Action, won the 2005 Thurber Prize for American Humor. The annual prize is presented by Thurber House, the national literary center for writers and readers, based in the boyhood home of author, humorist, and New Yorker cartoonist, James Thurber in Columbus, Ohio.