John Stewart Wins Thurber Prize

Posted on November 28, 2005

Jon Stewart and co-author Ben Karlin have won the 2005 Thurber Prize for American Humor for the book, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Presents America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction. The book was a big seller last holiday season.

The award is well deserved in our opinion. Stewart's book is very funny. The other finalists were The Borowitz Report: The Big Book of Shockers by Andy Borowitz and <Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing up Iranian in America by Firoozeh Dumas.

The annual Thurber Prize says it is the only recognition of the art of humor writing in the United States. Three finalists are selected annually and the prize is always announced in New York City. You can find out more about the Thurber Prize here.