Black suit pants worn by Jon Stewart on The Daily Show for interview with President Obama
date: label: date made
content: before 2010
name: label: maker
content: Armani
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Jon Stewart wore these pants as part of a suit while hosting the television news series The Daily Show on October 27, 2010. The black suit pants are by Armani.
label: Description (Brief)
content: From 1999 to 2015, Jon Stewart anchored The Daily Show, Comedy Central’s nightly satirical television newscast. The show sometimes functioned as a parody of television news, especially the 24-hour cable news networks whose programming grew increasingly sensational and politically polarizing in the early 2000s. Stewart’s well-informed but exasperated commentary on the absurdities of the American political system and media landscape made the show a hit, especially among young viewers. According to a poll by Pew research, by 2014, 12% of Americans got their news from The Daily Show, roughly the same reach as the national newspaper USA Today. Some commentators noted that “infotainment” programs like The Daily Show contributed to the same worrisome fusion of entertainment and news and decline of trust in journalism as cable news was creating. Several studies, however, showed that viewers of the program were just as accurately informed about current events as regular viewers of traditional broadcast news. In the leadup to the 2008 election, political candidates appeared on the Daily Show 21 times, including visits by presidential candidates John McCain and Barack Obama. Obama returned to the show in October 2010, just before that year’s midterm election; Stewart wore this suit for that episode.
place: label: place made
content: Italy
label: Associated Place
content: Italy
topic: label: Subject
content: Television
label: Subject
content: News
label: Subject
content: Politics
label: Subject
content: Comedy
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content: Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
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content: Popular Entertainment
label: Exhibition
content: Entertainment Nation
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Hello Doggie Inc.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2016.0101.02
label: accession number
content: 2016.0101
label: catalog number
content: 2016.0101.02
objectType: label: Object Name
content: pants
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silk (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 37 in x 28 in; 93.98 cm x 71.12 cm