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It's because he is actually considering running for president and wants people to get to know the real him!
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He just published a book. Presumably it's easier for him to get interviews as his real persona.
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I'll link it when I get home if no one wants to go look, but there's a really, really long interview with him on Charlie Rose where he is out of character and talks about a lot of stuff, and I think that took place over a year ago.
I think when he was first starting his show it was hard for him to be out of character because he had to establish the character first, but now that he's been on the air for two years, people get the difference now and he can be himself in public when they are actually interviewing him and not his character.
I believe he was hired onto the Daily Show in the late 90's after his work at Second City. In fact, I've heard that he changed the pronunciation of his name and worked hard at eliminating his southern accent before going to Chicago.
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The interview took place December of 2006, so about a year ago.
The only thing I didn't like was something he said and I've heard Stewart say it too: Something about how the comedy comes first and they don't really focus on the message. I don't believe that. And I think the interview with Russert proves that they DO have something they want to get it out and comedy is their medium. They care about what they are saying and what they are doing.
PS. If you want to see something from his Second City days, in other words, him being himself and still funny, look up the two episodes of "Whose Line is it Anyway?" that he was in. He thinks pretty damned fast on his feet.
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It's weird. I knew that his character on his show was not who he was in real life, and yet when he displayed his real personality (I think) in this clip it was the person I had believed was behind the character. I was very impressed with his reason for not letting his younger children see the show.
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Thanks Lyrhawn, I watched the Charlie Rose interview. I'm actually a much bigger fan now that I know the man behind the mask, as it were. Quite an interesting, clever, reasonable guy .
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