Jon Stewart to take a break from 'The Daily Show'

It's true, friends. After more than a decade on 'The Daily Show', Jon Stewart...

Credit: Comedy Central

...is taking a brief, eight-week break over the summer to direct his first feature film.

Yes, the 16-time Emmy winner is directing the upcoming drama Rosewater. Stewart also wrote the film, adapting the Then They Came For Me: A Family’s Story Of Love, Captivity And Survival, which is BBC journalist Maziar Bahari account of his 118 days in captivity in Iran in 2009.

In a peculiar twist, it turns out that upon being accused of spying, one of the pieces of evidence used against Bahari was an appearance he made on 'The Daily Show'.

So I guess turning his book into a movie is Stewart's way of saying, "My bad. ...We cool?"

Via: Entertainment Weekly