'Daily Show,' 'Colbert' producer leaving

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NEW YORK - The Emmy-winning executive producer of "The Daily Show" and "The Colbert Report," Comedy Central's two satirical news shows, will leave his jobs with the network at the end of the month.


Ben Karlin, who joined
Jon Stewart on "The Daily Show" in 1999, decided that the grind of working on both shows was too much after seven years, said Doug Herzog, the president of Comedy Central.

"Ben has been doing this a long time," Herzog told The New York Times in Saturday's editions. "Four nights a week. Forty-some odd weeks a year.

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