VIDEO: DAILY SHOW's Jon Stewart Launches Kickstarter to Buy CNN!
By: Caryn Robbins Jul. 23, 2014
On last night's The Daily Show on Comedy Central, host Jon Stewart announced that he was launching a $10 billion Kickstarter campaign in order to purchase CNN. The host encouraged fans to visit Letsbuycnn.com and make their contributions.
Check out the clip below!
According to the site: "CNN, America's first 24-hour cable news network, has been terrible for many, many years. Does it have to be that way? Who knows, maybe it does. So let's find out for ourselves!" reads the site.
Kickstarter.com has not commented on the story.
Jon Stewart, Steve Bodow, Jen Flanz, Jill Katz and Adam Lowitt are the Executive Producers of "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" with Tim Greenberg and Hillary Kun as Co-Executive Producers. Supervising Producers are Pam DePace, Justin Melkmann and Stuart Miller. Kahane Cooperman is Producer. The series' Head Writer is Elliott Kalan and it is directed by Chuck O'Neil.
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