DarnJester99

He's the same as he is on camera. Just the nicest guy. The first day there, when they were showing the interns around, Jon popped out of his office. We all froze, cause it was Jon Freaking Stewart standing in front of us, and he just goes 'Hey guys, thanks for working for us for free.' Then he went about his business.

In fact, the day after the story that I was in aired I was working reception, and Jon comes in, sees me there stops by and said 'Hey DarnJester, good job last night.'

It was actually really easy. I found out they had interns from their website, submitted a cover letter telling them about all the work I'd done in college, I worked at the student run TV station and had a show called 'The Weekly Show' (get it?), and how much it would mean to work at the show that inspired me. They called me up to NYC for an interview and it consisted of one question 'Do you want to be an intern here?' To which I emphatically said yes. And then the hired me. It was pretty simple.

Turns out, and I found out about this just as my internship was ending, that they floated my cover letter around the office. There was a contest to see if I was a stalker or not. Apparently my cover letter came off, to some, as a little intense and I-want-to-wear-jon's-skin-as-a-coat-ish.

This is actually pretty cool, and one of the first things I learned when I got there. I'll try not to make it too long.

The first thing that happens in the morning is there is a huge meeting with everyone, and I mean everyone. The EP (executive producer) goes over what will be happening today, what stories they will be covering. So then everyone gets their marching orders and go about there business. Writers to start writing, PA to start gathering necessary clips or props, and interns get the food and fill in the holes.

The writers got a few hours, say if the meeting was at 10am, they got about until 2ish to get scripts and jokes to the head writer. Then they start putting the pieces together. Which jokes make it in, which don't. Then they have to match stuff up with video footage. Then Jon takes a look at it. It's about 4:30 now.

Around 5ish they have a full run through of the show. Just Jon at the desk and any correspondents that are needed, and the writers, who are sitting in the audience seats. It takes about 25 minutes to go through stuff.

Then Jon and the EP and a few writers put there heads together to see what worked and what didn't. And make any final revisions to the script.

Meanwhile the audience is being loaded in to the studio. The script is being loaded in to the prompter, Jon gets last minute hair and makeup. The warm up guy goes out to entertain the crowd for a few minutes. And then it's show time.

Oh, well actually when they cut to commercial they actually cut to commercial. Meaning that the DJ, yeah there's a DJ, puts on music and plays it real loud, and they go for how ever long the commercial break is.

While that is happening, a script guy will come up and hand Jon the next segment's script. A producer will come up and talk to Jon about something, they're always tinkering with stuff. Then the stage manager will call 10 seconds, everyone walks off stage and here we go in 5, 4, 3,.... (They never say 2 or 1)

A lot actually. He's in on the meetings, and obviously during the run through.