Watch Writers Speak! A Potentially Regrettable Evening with the Writers of The Daily Show: Live at the Paley Center

Jon Stewart's writers talk about the daily process of turning news into comedy. This Paley Center live event, held in association with the New York Comedy Festival, celebrates the writers of "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart," the nightly comedy show which takes a skewered look at current events and can field stories about any topic. Host David Bushman (television curator, the Paley Center) offers opening comments and introduces moderator David Remnick (editor, the New Yorker magazine).

Remnick moderates the following panelists, all writers on "The Daily Show": Rory Albanese, Steve Bodow, Tim Carvell, Wyatt Cenac, J.R. Havlan, David "D.J." Javerbaum, Rob Kutner, Adam Lowitt, John Oliver, and Jason Ross.

The panelists touch on such topics as: if a major source of humor for the show ended when George W. Bush left the White House; how "Daily Show" host Jon Stewart handles "testy" interviews; and how the writers interact with Stewart.

Questions from the audience then lead to a discussion of the following topics among others: whether "The Daily Show" could survive without Stewart; why many of the writers double as correspondents; and how the political affiliations of the writers influence their writing.