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"Daily Show" Seals Up Peabody
And so it has come to pass that Jon Stewart is an institution. Like Tupperware.
The comic's Daily Show and a documentary on plastic food containers were among the announced winners Thursday of the prestigious Peabody Awards for electronic media.
Also making the honor list: HBO's Deadwood, the lone dramatic TV series so recognized.
The Daily Show was lauded for its coverage of last year's presidential campaigns with "satire that deflates pomposity on an equal opportunity basis," the Peabody people said.
The award is The Daily Show's second Peabody under Stewart's reign at Comedy Central's fake-news anchor desk. It was previously Peabody'd for its coverage of the 2000 elections.
The show's Indecision 2004 coverage will be immortalized on a three-disc DVD box set to be released Jun. 28, Comedy Central announced Wednesday.
Meanwhile, a PBS documentary on Tupperware, the WGBH-TV-produced Tupperware!, was honored by the Peabody board for explaining why that thing you store hot dogs in is no less than a cultural touchstone.
Deadwood earned its distinction for "twist[ing] the conventions of the West into an excruciating knot of history and imagined events." That, and Ian McShane cusses good.
In picking up its first Peabody, the year-old Deadwood stands shoulder to padded shoulder with HBO's signature series, The Sopranos, a two-time recipient.
Just as at the Emmys, HBO shows led the way at the Peabodys. The pay-cable network also earned honors for the TV movie Something the Lord Made and the documentary Beah: A Black Woman Speaks, on actress Beah Richards.
Elsewhere, fallen-from-grace CBS newsman Dan Rather was in the good graces of Peabody voters for his 60 Minutes II scoop on the Abu Ghraib prisoner-abuse scandal. The History Channel was commended for making a show about somebody other than Hitler (it was cited for its Time Machine episode, "Rwanda: Do the Scars Ever Fade?"). And former NBC exec Grant Tinker, the man who championed such classic shows as Hill Street Blues and Cheers, was cited for his distinguished career.
The 64th annual George Foster Peabody Awards will be presented May 16 in New York. 60 Minutes correspondent Morley Safer is set to host the ceremony.
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