David Javerbaum is the Head Writer for "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" on Comedy Central. His work for that television program has earned him an Emmy Award, three consecutive Emmy nominations, and a 2000 Peabody Award. He also garnered an Emmy nomination for his work as a staff writer for "The Late Show with David Letterman." David is also co-author of of the best-selling book, "America". He spent three years writing humor for the satirical newspaper and web-site"The Onion", conceiving and co-writing its 1999 best-selling book, Our Dumb Century (winner of the James Thurber Prize for American Humor) and contributing numerous articles and headlines to two other compilation books, Our Finest Reporting and Dispatches from the Tenth Circle. David also writes scripts and lyrics for musical theater; his most recent show, Suburb, composed and by Robert S. Cohen, ran Off-Broadway in 2001 and was nominated as Best Off-Broadway Musical by the Outer Critics Circle, the Lucille Lortel Awards, and the Drama League (for which it was nominated as Best Musical, Broadway or Off-). A 1995 alumnus of NYU's Graduate School of Musical Theater Composition, David attended Harvard University, where he wrote for the humor magazine The Harvard Lampoon and co-wrote two of that school's Hasty Pudding musicals. He lives inManhattan with his wife Debra and daughter Kate. His hobbies include the succinct encapsulation of his achievements.
