Canoe reports that 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.
Stewart, David Javerbaum and Ben Karlin won the 2005 Thurber Prize for American Humor for their book, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Presents America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction. The runners-up were Andy Borowitz for The Borowitz Report: The Big Book of Shockers and Firoozeh Dumas for Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing up Iranian in America.
The award is named for James Thurber, an author, humorist and New Yorker magazine cartoonist who delighted readers for decades with his sharp wit and literary flair before his death in 1961.
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