Angry Optimist: The Life and Times of Jon Stewart by Lisa Rogak

Author:Lisa Rogak [Rogak, Lisa]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9781466841062
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2014-09-09T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 9

WITH THE DAILY SHOW firmly established as a ratings success, Stewart started to branch out from his hosting and producing duties. In 2003, the clause in his Comedy Central contract about doing no outside work had long expired, and he decided to test the waters once more in Hollywood. He accepted a role in the movie Death to Smoochy, which came out in 2002.

The movie, directed by Danny DeVito and starring Ed Norton and Robin Williams, came out in the spring of 2002 and was pitched as a black comedy featuring child entertainers that also offered a thinly veiled satirical critique of Barney the dinosaur, a popular children’s character of the time. The plot revolved around children’s TV show host Randolph Smiley—played by Robin Williams—and his desire to exact revenge upon his replacement—a purple rhinoceros named Smoochy, played by Edward Norton—after getting fired from the show. In keeping with Stewart’s previous track record with movies, the critics savaged it.

“The script is so shoddy, the direction so inept, and the acting so wretched, that every second of this film creaks like a broken-down tractor,” wrote one critic, who added that it was the first time in his life that he had walked out of a movie theater before a film had ended.

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