An Act of God, a stage adaptation of a satirical book by former The Daily Show with Jon Stewart writer and executive producer David Javerbaum, is headed for Broadway in 2015, according to three-time Tony Award-nominated producer Jeffrey Finn.
Javerbaum, an 11-time Emmy Award winner who credited his book The Last Testament: A Memoir By God as "written by God and scribed by David Javerbaum," adapted the book, but the rest of the creative team has not been announced. The tome is reputed to cover such hot topics as why God loves America and which sports teams the deity really roots for. According to its marketing copy it is "sure to appeal to not only hardcore God fans and 'worshipers,' but to anyone who's ever had total omnipotence." (Shockingly, some retailers objected to selling the book.) Javerbaum, a former writer for The Onion, is also behind the Twitter feed @TheTweetOfGod.
Javerbaum's Broadway news is only the latest strike in a meteor shower of big projects and wild successes by Daily Show alumni. Most prominent this month was the announcement that Stephen Colbert will take over David Letterman's late-night slot when Letterman retires sometime next year. In the meantime, next month HBO will premiere John Oliver's weekly show Last Week Tonight.
Aasif Mandvi, still a Daily Show correspondent, is getting in on the HBO action too, as writer, co-producer and co-star of upcoming series The Brink, scheduled to begin shooting later this year -- maybe around the same time his memoir No Man's Land comes out in October. Mandvi's no stranger to the live stage, having appeared on Broadway in the 2002 revival of Oklahoma! and starred in a number of Off-Broadway productions.
Can't wait for any of that? This very night, April 24, 2014, a batch of Daily Show writers takes the stage at an Upright Citizens Brigade improv show in New York. Don't say we didn't warn you.
