Another Award For The Daily Show Folks

This time, it is The Thurber Prize:

Comedy Central’s The Daily Show with Jon Stewart has added one more plaque to its growing gallery of awards—this time the 2005 Thurber Prize, for the book The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Presents America (The Book): A Citizen’s Guide to Democracy in Action. Announced Monday night at a reception and reading at the Algonquin Hotel, the award was presented to co-authors Jon Stewart, David Javerbaum and Ben Karlin, and to the book’s publisher, Warner Books.

“When the really smart extraterrestrials finally locate the fused wreckage of our planet, I hope they are able to retrieve a copy of this book,” said judge and writer Rachel Cline, of America (The Book). “It catalogues the follies of faith, greed, idealism and idolatry that animated a great nation.”