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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2015

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Comedy Central: Stewart leaving The Daily Show

LYNN ELBER

Associated Press
LOS ANGELES Jon Stewart, who
turned his biting and free-wheeling
humor into an unlikely source of news
and analysis for viewers of The Daily
Show, will leave as host this year,
Comedy Central said Tuesday.
His departure was announced by
Comedy Central President Michele
Ganeless after Stewart, host of the
show since 1999, broke the news to the
audience at Tuesdays taping in New
York.
Through his unique voice and
vision, The Daily Show has become
a cultural touchstone for millions of
fans and an unparalleled platform
for political comedy that will endure
for years to come, Ganeless said in a
statement.
She called Stewart, 52, a comic
genius. He will remain as host until
later this year, she said, but did not
specify his exit date or what led to his
decision.
His influence is seen in the work
of Stephen Colbert, John Oliver and
Larry Wilmore, who went on to earn
shows of their own. Other Daily
Show alumni include Steve Carell, Ed

Helms, Josh Gad and new Saturday

Night Live anchor Michael Che.
Reaction was swift from Stewarts
admirers and, in some cases, likely past
targets.
Just had the honor of being the
great Jon Stewarts guest (on The
Daily Show), where he announced
hes leaving. Emotional night, David
Axelrod, former adviser to President
Barack Obama, posted on Twitter.
Stewarts departure represents a
second big blow for Comedy Central:
Another star, Stephen Colbert, left
The Colbert Report last year to take
over from CBS late-night host David
Letterman when he retires in May.
Larry Wilmore and the new The
Nightly Show replaced The Colbert
Report.
The Stewart and Colbert shows
created templates for a comedic
form that offered laughs along with
trenchant political and social satire.
Authors and politicians were as
common as Hollywood celebrities
on the self-described fake news
programs.
Stewart took a several months-long
hiatus in 2013 to direct Rosewater, a
well-reviewed film about an Iranianborn journalist who was imprisoned

for 118 days in Tehran and accused

of being a spy. The Comedy Central
statement did not indicate what his
plans were after leaving.
Last November, in an interview with
The Associated Press for Rosewater,
Stewart was asked about his future
with the Comedy Central show. He
replied that the format he works in
doesnt matter.
Its a journey. Its a conversation,
he said. One thing I wont do is write
music or sing.
Mindy Kaling blamed the lure of
filmdom.
I knew when Jon Stewart left to
direct that movie he was gonna try
something like this, Kaling posted on
Twitter.
When he returned from his
filmmaking break, Stewart played a
tape of President Barack Obama urging
military action against Syria because of
last months poison gas attack.
America taking military action
against a Middle East regime, Stewart
said. Its like I never left.
In 2010, Stewart and Colbert drew a
crowd to the Washington Mall for their
Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear.
They tackled familiar topics the
partisan gridlock in the nations capital

BRAD BARKET/ASSOCIATED PRESS

This Nov. 30, 2011 file photo shows television host Jon Stewart during a taping of The Daily
Show with Jon Stewart in New York. Comedy Central announced Tuesday that Stewart will
leave The Daily Show later this year.

and the political talk show culture that

encouraged it.
Stewart was credited with effectively
killing one cable program CNNs
Crossfire when his withering
criticism of its partisan squabbling hit
a nerve and CNN soon canceled it.
He poked fun at politicians but

spent even more time on the media

establishment covering them. The
most recent example was Monday
night, when he tut-tutted NBCs Brian
Williams for being caught exaggerating
about the danger he faced covering the
Iraq War.

Missouri inmate set to die for killing neighbor in 1990

JIM SALTER

Associated Press

ST. LOUIS A Missouri

inmate who killed his neighbor
25 years ago was to be executed
early Wednesday after the U.S.
Supreme Court and the states
governor denied appeals to
spare his life.
Walter Timothy Storey was
scheduled to die at 12:01 a.m.
Wednesday for killing a woman
inside her apartment in the St.
Louis suburb of St. Charles.
After a Missouri-record 10
executions in 2014, it would be

the states first this year.

Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon
turned down Storeys bid
for clemency around 8 p.m.
Tuesday, shortly after the U.S.
Supreme Court also denied
his appeal arguing that the
lethal drug could cause a
painful death. Four justices
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sonia
Sotomayor, Stephen Breyer and
Elena Kagan would have
granted the stay.
Missouri obtains its execution
drug, pentobarbital, from
an unnamed compounding
pharmacy, and prison officials

refuse to disclose details about

how or if it is tested. Storeys
attorney argues that the
secrecy makes it impossible
to know if the barbiturate
will quickly work or cause an
unconstitutionally
painful
death.
After all, compounding is not
necessarily a matter of changing
a drugs flavor, but rather it is a
matter of combining different
ingredients in new, untested
ways,
Storeys
attorney,
Jennifer Herndon, wrote.
She cited an anesthesiologist
who said that that sub-potent

pentobarbital could severely

disable the prisoner without
killing him, potentially leaving
him alive but permanently
brain-damaged.
In a response, the Missouri
attorney generals office noted
that virtually every recent
inmate facing execution has
raised the same issue.
A dozen Missouri executions
using pentobarbital have
been rapid and painless, the
response read.
Herndon also expressed
concerns about Missouris use
of the sedative midazolam prior

Its time
for the
perfect
job.

to executions. The state has

said the drug is administered
to help calm the nerves of
inmates, and only to those who
want it.
Herndon
wrote
that
midazolam was used in three
botched executions in other
states in 2014.
Storey, 47, was sentenced to
death three separate times in
the same case.
He was living with his mother
in a St. Charles apartment on
Feb. 2, 1990, when he became
upset over his pending divorce.
He spent an angry night

drinking beer.
He ran out of beer and money,
so he decided to break into the
neighboring apartment of Jill
Frey to steal money for more
beer.
Frey, a 36-year-old special
education teacher, had left
the sliding glass door of her
balcony open. Storey climbed
the balcony and confronted
Frey in her bedroom, where
he beat her. Frey suffered six
broken ribs and severe wounds
to her head and face.
Storey was convicted and
sentenced to death.

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