DAVID JAVERBAUM (Lyricist/Co-Author) has won five Emmys, an additional Emmy nomination, two Peabody Awards, and two Television Critics Awards for both Best Comedy and Best News Show for his work as Writer and (since 2003) Head Writer and Supervising Producer of Comedy Central’s The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. He is one of the primary authors of that show’s textbook parody America (The Book), which sold over 1.5 million copies, spent nearly a year on The New York Times Bestseller List (including 15 weeks at #1), won the James Thurber Prize for American Humor (his second), won 2005 Quill Awards for Best Humor Book and Audiobook, and was named Publishers’ Weekly’s 2004 Book of the Year; the audiobook won a Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album.  He was also Emmy-nominated for his work as a writer for The Late Show with David Letterman.  He spent three years writing for the satirical newspaper and website The Onion, conceiving its 1999 New York Times #1 bestseller Our Dumb Century and contributing numerous articles to it and two other Onion books.

His work as a musical theater lyricist, which won him the prestigious 2005 Kleban Award, includes the lyrics for the upcoming Broadway adaptation of John Waters’ film Cry-Baby.  Suburb won him the Richard Rodgers Award for Musical Theater; its 2001 Off-Broadway production earned Best Off-Broadway Musical nominations from the Outer Critics Circle, the Lucille Lortel Awards, and the Drama League (for which it was nominated as Best Musical, Broadway or Off-).  He is a graduate of NYU's Graduate School of Musical Theater Composition and Harvard University, where he wrote for the humor magazine The Harvard Lampoon and co-wrote two of that school's Hasty Pudding musicals.  

He lives in Manhattan with his wife Debra and their daughter Kate. His hobbies include the succinct encapsulation of his achievements.