Jon Stewart was born Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz in New York City, New York, to Marian (Laskin), a teacher, and Donald Leibowitz, a physics professor. His family is Ashkenazi Jewish (from Austria, Ukraine, Poland, and Belarus). Stewart moved to Lawrenceville, New Jersey during his childhood. He graduated from the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, in 1984. He made his breakthrough on The Larry Sanders Show (1992), where he had a role playing himself, the oft-timed "Guest Host" of "The Larry Sanders Show". He became as much a part of the show's fabric as some of the regular performers.

In the 2000s, Stewart emerged as a bona fide television personality with his ascension to host of The Daily Show (1996)/Comedy Central, taking over for Craig Kilborn in 1999. Audiences have embraced his sarcastic, sardonic and incisive sense of humor, covering politics and other news stories.

Stewart and his wife, Tracey, have two children.

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Jon Stewart and Christopher Barrett in You Wrote It, You Watch It (1993)

Jon Stewart in You Wrote It, You Watch It (1993)

Jon Stewart and Jason Eis in You Wrote It, You Watch It (1993)

Jon Stewart, The Kid Mero, and Desus Nice in It Be Your Own Mans (2020)

Jon Stewart and Don Dahler in The Daily Show (1996)

Jon Stewart in Saturday Night Live (1975)

Jon Stewart and Mitch McConnell in The Daily Show (1996)

Jon Stewart and Marcus Goddard in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016)

Jon Stewart, Desi Lydic, Michael Kosta, Jordan Klepper, Ronny Chieng, and Josh Johnson in The Daily Show (1996)

Ben Affleck, Chris Rock, Will Ferrell, Shannon Elizabeth, Kevin Smith, Jason Lee, and Jason Mewes in Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001)

Jim Breuer and Dave Chappelle in Half Baked (1998)

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