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Author Description <b>David Javerbaum</b> (born David J. Javerbaum) is an American comedy writer, lyricist and librettist. Javerbaum was a former head writer and executive producer of <i>The Daily Show with Jon Stewart</i>. His work for the program won 11 Emmy Awards, a Grammy Award, two Peabody Awards and Television Critics Association Awards for both Best Comedy and Best News Show.<br /><br />Some of his wellknown works are <i>What to Expect When You're Expected: A Fetus's Guide to the First Three Trimesters (2009)</i>; <i>The Last Testament: A Memoir by God</i>, (2011); and <i> The Book Of Bieb </i> (2014). He also coauthored the show's textbook parody <i>America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction</i>, which sold 2.6 million copies and won the 2005 Thurber Prize for American Humor. The book spent a year in <i>The New York Times</i> Bestseller List (including 15 at #1) and was named <i>Publishers Weekly</i>'s 2004 Book of the Year. He became a consulting producer at the start of 2009 and spent the next 18 months spearheading the writing of the book's sequel, <i>Earth (The Book): A Visitor's Guide to the Human Race</i>, which was released in September 2010; his co-production of its audiobook earned the 2011 Grammy Award for Best Spoken-Word Album.<br /><br />David Javerbaum is a graduate of NYU's Graduate School of Musical Theater Composition and Harvard University where he wrote for the humor magazine <i>The Harvard Lampoon</i> and served as lyricist and co-bookwriter for two productions of the Hasty Pudding Theatricals. Later he spent three years contributing headlines to The Onion, and is credited as one of the writers for <i>Our Dumb Century</i>.<br />

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