Jon Stewart - On How He Thinks and Works Creatively - NPR with Terry Gross, Fresh Air - The Transcript

We've got a special show for you today: an interview with Jon Stewart that I recorded last Wednesday night onstage, at the 92nd Street Y in Manhattan, before an audience of about 1,000 people. The occasion for the interview was the publication of the new book by Jon Stewart and the writers of "The Daily Show," called "Earth: A Visitor's Guide to the Human Race." It's a collection of satirical descriptions of human history including evolution, religion, democracy, fascism, music and TV. Stewart has been hosting "The Daily Show" on Comedy Central since 1999. The show's two Peabodys and 11 Emmys are examples of the widely held opinion - which I share - that Stewart is a brilliant satirist of politics and the media. He's been in the news lately because of the Rick Sanchez story, which happened after our interview, and because he's organized a rally on the National Mall for October 30th, that he's calling the Rally to Restore Sanity. And Stephen Colbert, whose show "The Colbert Report" was co-created by Stewart, is organizing a counter-rally whose theme is Keep Fear Alive.

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The Job Interview - John Cleese offers some thoughts!!

With an upsurge in employment, job interview techniques become important. Researching techniques and articles on this topic, I came across a classic Monty Python sketch and had to share it with Creative Leadership Forum members. It provides no helpful hints or insight, just extraordinary mirth coupled with pain and anguish as you observe the absurdity of a formal traditional job interview structure. Cleese has captured this magnificently. Sit and back and scream with laughter.

The Role of the Media in Business Forecasting

One of the major questions one has to ask is what role has the mainstream media played in the global financial crisis - in particular the role of TV business commentators.

This video provides very compelling evidence that mainstream media, in this instance TV, has not only been a participant in the most unreliable way, it actually distorts the truth. When you look at this video, you will view the claim that media represents responsible views as the bogus claim it really is. Here are leaders in government and business and their partners in crime the journalists making claims that can be seen as totally incorrect. The paradox is that the media can only ever represent the moment and it is those fragments of information in the moment that the media claims represent reality.

The great challenge at the moment is - who can we rely on to provide us with real information about what's going on? It seems we might have to rely on writers of satire to do that.

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