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"  Jon Stewart is taking a break from hosting The Daily Show for the first time since 1996. He&amp;#039;s taking a three-month leave of absence to direct his first feature film, Rosewater, which he also wrote. Since Stewart never takes breaks \u2014 the only other times he&amp;#039;s missed tapings were when his two children were born \u2014 the show doesn&amp;#039;t exactly have some sort of protocol set in place for what to do.  So instead, they left it up to their fearless leader, who decided to hand off his hosting duties to longtime &amp;quot;Senior British Correspondent&amp;quot; John Oliver. Oliver&amp;#039;s first show is tonight, and here are five reasons you shouldn&amp;#039;t take a hiatus from The Daily Show this summer just because Jon Stewart is. 1. He&amp;#039;s British, and we&amp;#039;ve got a royal baby on the way. I mean, who better to cover the birth of the future king or queen of England than one of the U.K.&amp;#039;s loyal subjects?  2. He&amp;#039;s smart. As in, really, really intelligent. Oliver &amp;quot;read English&amp;quot; (as they say across the pond) at Cambridge University, where he was also the vice president of the Cambridge Footlights, the legendary comedy troupe that gave rise to Monty Python. So if you think Stewart is passing us off to a lesser comedy mortal, please think again. 3. He met his wife on the job. Oliver met Kate Norley, an Iraq War veteran, at the 2008 RNC convention when Norley helped him sneak in to film a piece for The Daily Show. The two married in October 2011. 4. He helps young comedians. Comedy Central has now made John Oliver&amp;#039;s New York Stand-Up Show an annual event. Oliver finds talented comedians who are just starting out and invites them to perform on the show. 5. He&amp;#039;s only pretending to be a pompous, arrogant Englishman. &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s very British to sound like you know more than Americans,&amp;quot; Oliver told The Daily Beast. &amp;quot;They sound like they do, and that&amp;#039;s the trick. But there is nothing more British than simultaneously feeling superior and inferior. You just project one, repress the other.&amp;quot; John Oliver kicks off his hosting duties tonight at 11 p.m. on Comedy Central. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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