Angry Optimist: The Life and Times of Jon Stewart by Lisa Rogak, 288 pagesJon Stewart doesn't get why Rogak wrote this book. That's clear every time he's quoted in it, talking about how boring his homebody life is, and about how he's just a comedian and not trying to change the world, for crying out loud. But I'm glad Rogak did write this. It was an interesting insight into Stewart's life before The Daily Show, as well as life within the show (the book was published before he left in August 2015). Sometimes it veered away from a biography of Stewart (who didn't share much of his life post-marriage and kids) and into an oral history of The Daily Show itself (I really didn't need all those details about what food the interns had to buy for the green room every day), but all in all it was an interesting and illuminating book.
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