Is Jon Stewart leaving "The Daily Show"?

Well kinda!!!

Jon Stewart will take an extended hiatus from "The Daily Show" this summer to direct his first movie, Deadline reports.

While Stewart is absent, John Oliver will fill in the anchor seat for Stewart. The hiatus will take place over 12 weeks this summer. Oliver will fill in as host for eight of those weeks.

Stewart's directoral debut will be an adaptation of the memoir Then They Came For Me: A Family’s Story Of Love, Captivity And Survival. The Comedy Central host has written the screenplay, now entitled "Rosewater," which tells the true story of Maziar Bahari, a journalist who spent 118 days in an Iranian prison in 2009. Scott Rudin will produce the film.

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