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David Javerbaum
DAVID JAVERBAUM, who wrote music and lyrics for Broadway's Cry-Baby, is the Executive Producer of Comedy Central's The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. His work for that program, including four years as Head Writer, has earned him eight Emmys, two additional Emmy nominations, two Peabody Awards, and Television Critics Awards for both Best Comedy and Best News Show. He is one of the primary authors of the show’s textbook parody, America (The Book), which sold over 2.5 million copies, won the James Thurber Prize for American Humor (his second), won the 2005 Quill Awards for Best Humor Book and Audio Book, and was named Publishers' Weekly's 2004 Book of the Year; the audio book won a Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album. He spent three years writing for the satirical newspaper and website The Onion, conceiving its 1999 New York Times #1 bestseller Our Dumb Century and contributing numerous articles to it and two other Onion books. His work in musical theater, which won him the prestigious 2005 Kleban Award, includes serving as lyricist and co-librettist of Suburb, which won the Richard Rodgers Award for Musical Theater; its 2001 Off-Broadway production earned numerous Best Off-Broadway Musical Awards.

Bio as of April, 2008.

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