"Does anyone have a question where we don't end up having to help you people? Is anyone here okay with what's going on at this point in their careers, and maybe just curious about the shit we do?"

--Jon Stewart BEA, moderating discussions with Mary Roach, John Grisham and Condoleezza Rice and (apparently) being driven slowly insane by audience questions about how to get published. And he does that shit: The next book by the writers and performers of "The Daily Show," EARTH (THE BOOK): A VISITOR'S GUIDE TO THE HUMAN RACE, hits stores September 21, and long before his tenure as the host he published a book of essays.