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Jon Stewart is an Americal political satirist, "televisye" (television) host, "aktyor" (actor), media critic, "mekhaber" (author),
and stand-up comedian.
He is host of "The Daily Show" and "The Jon Stewart Show."
Shown below is the Yiddish Guide to Jon Stewart:
"aktyor" (actor)
"I can be in 20 movies. But I'll never be an
actor." (Stewart quote)
"arbet" (work)
After college, Stewart held numerous jobs.
He was a contingency planner for the NJ
Dept. of Human Services, a contract
administrator for the City University of
New York, a puppeteer for children with
disabilities, a caterer, a busboy, a shelf
stocker at Woolworth's, and bartender at
the Franklin Corner Tavern, a local blue
collar bar in college.
"betn mekhile" (to apologize)
"What?! The Congressman had a sex scandal and had to apologize to Bill Clinton? For what? Copyright infringement."
(Stewart, on Weinergate)
"blozn" (to blow)
On Jan. 26, 2011, @blog.rabbijason.com
reported: JON STEWART CAN ONLY GO
SHOFAR. Last night Jon Stewart decided to
blow a shofar on "The Daily Show With
Jon Stewart" to alert his viewers to some
breaking news (Keith Olbermann leaving
MSNBC). He called it a News Shofar and
announced "Something happened!" but
never actually blew the shofar. Instead he
just put the shofar to his mouth and kept
repeating the words "Hey Look" in a staccato fashion. It sort of sounded like a
Tekiah blast followed by Teruah.
"bruder' (brother)
Jon has an older brother, Larry Leibowitz.
"durkh faln" (to fail)
"Chinese President Hu Jintao is visiting us.
When a country owes you a billion dollars
they have a problem. When they owe you
a trillion dollars, YOU have a problem.
We're too big to fail!"
(Stewart quote)
"erd" (earth)
President Bush announced we're going to
Mars, which means he's given up on Earth."
(Stewart quote)
"farbaytn" (t replace)
When David Letterman left NBC in 1993,
Stewart was a finalist to replace him, but
Conan O'Brien was hired instead.
"fraynd" (friend)
Stewart was friends with future Congressman, Anthony Weiner.
"froy" (wife)
Stewart is married to Tracey McShane; they
have two children. Tracey is a veterinary
technician. He was introduced to his wife
by a production assistant on "Wishful
Thinking" (1999). He proposed to her through a crossword puzzle made by Will
Shortz.
"geboyrn" (born)
Jon was born into a Jewish family in NYC
on Nov. 28, 1962. He grew up in Lawrenceville, NJ, where he attended
Lawrence H.S.
He said, "I was born in New York City, but I was raised in New Jersey, part of the great Jewish emigration of 1963."
"fusbol" (soccer)
Jon graduated in 1984 from the College of
William and Mary in Virginia. His major:
psychology. He played on the soccer team.
"gastgeber" (host)
Stewart has hosted the Grammy Awards twice, in 2001 and 2002. Recognizing his
lackluster performance he said, "Ladies
and Gentlemen, I just want to say I feel your
scorn and accept it."
"get" (divorce)
Jon's parents were divorced when he was
11 years old. He no longer has any contact
with his father.
"glaykh" (equal)
After Stewart gave a personal monologue
about the shootings in Tucson, AZ, he was
recognized as a political force rather than
just merely a comedian. The New York
Times suggested that he is "the modern day
equivalent of Edward R. Murrow."
"hern" (to hear)
"I heard Dennis Kucinich say in a debate,
'When I'm president...' and I just wanted
to stop him and say, 'Dude.'"
"khemye" (chemistry)
In college, Stewart started as a Chemistry
major and switched to Psychology ("psikhology"). "Apparently, there's a
right and wrong answer in Chemistry;
whereas in Psychology, you can say whatever you want as long as you write
five pages."
(Stewart, on "60 Minutes," in 2001)
"kleyntshik" (tiny)
"I was born with an adult head and a tiny
body. Like a 'Peanuts' character."
(Stewart quote)
"kop" (head)
"I'm not a very serious Jew. I don't wear
the protective religious headgear [yarmulke]. They only wear that because
40% of all religious thoughts escape through the head."
(Stewart quote)
"kurts" (short)
"I'm too short to host a late-night talk show. It's like the bar at an amusement-
park ride. You have to be six feet two or
over."
(Stewart quote)
"letst" (last)
Stewart became a regular at the Comedy
Cellar, where he was the last performer every night. For two years, he would perform at 2 a.m. while developing his comedic style.
"milkhome" (war)
"We're at war? Again? Don't we already
have two? Wars aren't like kids, where you
don't have to worry about the youngest
one because the other two will take care of
it."
(Stewart, on the war in Libya)
"milyon" (million)
"If I'd only followed CNBC's advice, I'd have
a million dollars today, provided I'd started
with a hundred million dollars."
(Stewart quote)
"moyre" (fear)
On Sept. 16, 2010, Stewart, along with
Stephen Colbert, announced a rally for
Oct. 30, known as the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear. It took place on the
National Mall in Washington, D.C. and
attracted about 215,000 participants.
"nomen" (name)
Jon Stewart started out as Jonathan Stewart Leibowitz and, to save himself
some trouble, lopped off a few syllables
of his name, including his entire last name.
In the old days of the American melting pot,
Jewish performers regularly changed their
names to make them sound more American.
"Jon Leibowitz couldn't have been any tougher to handle than Arnold Schwarzenegger." (David Holzel)
Stewart has referred to himself as 'Jewey Von Jewstein' and cracked jokes about Jewish noses, circumcision, anti-Semites, Jews who play baseball, and Israel as 'Heebie Land.'
"orntlekh" (honest) or "eriekh"
"What you do is not honest. What you
do is partisan hackery. You have a
responsibility to the public discourse, and
you fail miserably."
(Stewart to Tucker Carlson and
Paul Begala on "Crossfire.")
"nomen" (name)
When Jon made his stand-up debut at The
Bitter End, the same place where his comedic idol, Woody Allen, began, He began using the stage name "Jon Stewart."
He dropped his last name and changed the spelling of his middle name, "Stuart" to
"Stewart." He often jokes this is because
people had difficulty with the pronunciation
of Leibowitz or it "sounded too Hollywood."
He has implied that the name change was
actually due to a strained relationship with
his father with whom Stewart no longer has
any contact."
"perzenlekh meynung" (personal view/
opinion)
During the first show after the attacks of
Sept. 11, 2001, Stewart spent the first nine
minutes of his show discussing his personal
view on the event:
"The view...from my apartment...was the World Trade Center...and now it's gone, and they attacked it. This symbol of American ingenuity, and strength, and labor, and imagination and commerce, and it is gone. But you know what the view is now? The Statue of LIberty. The view from the South of Manhattan is now the Statue of Liberty. You can't beat that."
"religye (religion)
"Religion. It's given people hope in a world
torn apart by religion. If America leads a
blessed life, then why did God put all of our
oil under people who hate us?"
(Stewart quote)
"sheyn" (beautiful)
Stewart was chosen by People Magazine as
one of 1999s 50 Most Beautiful People in The World.
"shisn" (to shoot)
"Moms and dads, if you're watching right now, I can't emphasize this enough: don't let your kids go hunting with the Vice
President. I don't care what kind of lucrative contracts they're trying to land
or energy regulations they're trying to get
lifted--he'll shoot them in the face."
(Stewart quote)
"skhar" (reward)
"You know if I had a nickel for every time
Bush has mentioned 9/11, I could raise enough reward money to go after Bin
Laden."
(Stewart quote)
"shos" (shot from firearm)
"To have not shot his friend in the face
would have sent a message to the quail that
America is weak."
(Stewart, on Dick Cheney shooting his
hunting partner/buddy, Harry
Wittington, in the face.)
"shotn" (shadow)
"Everyone knows if a Republican comes out
of the closet and sees a gay shadow, it means six more years of a Democratic
administration."
(Stewart quote)
"shtarbn" (to die)
"I don't want to die before my parents die,
especially my mother. Because I think that's
tragic. Because I don't want her to get the
chance to pick out what I'm going to wear
for eternity."
(Stewart quote)
"trefshpil" (puzzle)
Steward does the New York Times crossword puzzle every night with his wife.
"zhuri" (jury)
"There is no such thing as an impartial jury
because there are no impartial people.
There are people that argue on the web for
hours about who their favorite character on
'Friends' is."
(Stewart quote)
"tate-mame" (parents)
Jon's father, Donald Leibowitz, was a
professor of physics at the College of New
Jersey from 2001 through 2008; he now
teaches an online course at Thomas Edison
State College. His mother, Marian, is an
educational consultant and teacher.
"zorgn zikh" (to worry)
"It's as if a guy drove me into a ditch and
said, 'Don't worry. I know how to drive us
out of this.'"
(Stewart on Pres. Bush)
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