Name Josh Lieb Role Executive producer | Movies Immigrants Books Earth (The Book) | |
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Awards PGA Television Producer of the Year Award - Live Entertainment & Talk Television Shows The Daily Show, The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon Nominations Goodreads Choice Awards Best Humor Similar People Gavin Purcell, Mike DiCenzo, Gerard Bradford, A D Miles, Jon Stewart | ||
Josh Lieb (born 1972) is the former producer and showrunner of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. His credits include stints as executive producer of NewsRadio and The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. During his time at The Daily Show, Lieb was named on seven Primetime Emmys that the show won.
In 2009, he published a young adult novel, I Am a Genius of Unspeakable Evil and I Want to Be Your Class President, which was a New York Times Best Seller.
Lieb was raised in Columbia, South Carolina, and graduated from Harvard, where he was an editor of The Harvard Lampoon, the college humor magazine. After graduation, he found work writing for Twisted Puppet Theater, The Jon Stewart Show and NewsRadio. He subsequently worked as a producer or consultant on shows including The Simpsons, Drawn Together, Sirens, Nikki, I Hate My Teenage Daughter and Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.
Lieb’s tenure at The Daily Show lasted from 2006 to 2010, during which he also served as executive producer of the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear and as co-editor and co-author of Earth: The Book.
In 2013, he wrote and directed a series of comedic shorts to raise money and awareness for the charity Water.org. Stars featured in the shorts included Matt Damon, Jessica Biel, Sir Richard Branson, and Bono.
Penguin/Random House has announced plans to release Lieb’s second novel, Ratscalibur, in 2015.