David Javerbaum
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David Javerbaum is an American comedy writer and the Executive Producer of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. Javerbaum worked at The Late Show with David Letterman for about one year starting in 1998, then moved to The Daily Show in 1999 where he worked as a staff writer until being promoted to Head Writer in 2002. In that capacity he has won seven Emmy Awards, two Peabody Awards and Television Critics Awards for both Best Comedy and Best News Show. He is also one of the three principal authors of the show's best-selling book America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction.
Javerbaum is a graduate of the Graduate Musical Theatre Writing program at New York University's (NYU) Tisch School of the Arts. He started his career at Harvard University where he wrote for the humor magazine The Harvard Lampoon and served as lyricist and co-bookwriter for two productions of the Hasty Pudding Theatricals. Later, he spent three years writing for the satirical newspaper and website The Onion, including numerous articles for its best-selling book Our Dumb Century.
Also a librettist and lyricist, Javerbaum's Off-Broadway show Suburb was nominated as Best Off-Broadway Musical in 2001. He also received the prestigious 2005 Kleban Award for most promising music theater lyricist.
He was a contestant on Jeopardy!'s 1987 Teen Tournament and its 1998 Teen Reunion Tournament.
