Internet star Olivia Munn has joined The Daily Show, not previously known for its hot women of color. Denise Martin talks to her about OCD and joking about the Holocaust with Jon Stewart.
Maybe it says something about The Daily Show producers that they didn’t already know who Olivia Munn was before asking her to join their team of fake news correspondents.
Because if you’re a guy—as all but two of the Daily Show writers are—and you’re online, chances are you’ve stumbled across pictures of Munn on the covers of Playboy and Maxim. You’ve probably seen the videos of her chomping down on wieners (6.8 million views on YouTube don’t lie), or once, a cucumber that had just been down the pants of her co-host Kevin Pereira on G4’s Attack of the Show, a series that has also seen Munn dive into a massive pie wearing a French maid outfit, and parade around nerd herd convention Comic-Con dressed as Princess Leia.
“We lived in hell growing up and my mom was in her own kind of hell, so it was hard for her… but she couldn’t stand up for me,” Munn said. “The first time in my life I’ve felt true support is from my fans and I would never betray them.”
Then there’s the stuff that comes out of her mouth. Her thoughts about anal sex (Penises? No. Baby carrots? Sure), her nude ads for PETA (Save the Elephants! Boycott the circus!) and tabloid-licious ex-boyfriend Chris Pine (Captain Kirk to the dudes) are all well-publicized fodder among the Web-savvy.
But no. Daily Show Executive Producer Rory Albanese said it was only recently that he and host Jon Stewart discovered cable network G4’s most prized possession: a hot girl who’ll do anything for a laugh. “We're stuck in a hard news cycle and we’re nerdy,” Albanese said. “If she was on the cover of The Economist, we would have been like, 'Yes! Of course!’”
And yet last Thursday, there was Munn delivering her first reported segment on the Comedy Central show about how the BP oil spill has affected Vietnamese fishermen in the Gulf of Mexico. Stewart introduced her as the show’s new “Senior Asian Correspondent.”
Just how did the host of a fledgling cable-network series go from doing the truffle shuffle to The Daily Show? The gig was but a Holocaust joke away.
“In the first 10 minutes of my meeting with Jon, I made some kind of Holocaust joke—and by the way? It’s always too soon—and he died laughing. He was like, ‘Wow, you open up with the Holocaust?’” Munn recalled. “I said, ‘No, no, it's cool. I dated a Jewish guy!’” (That would be actor Bryan Greenberg of HBO’s How to Make It in America.)
“See I date different guys of different religions and races so I can always make the joke,” she continued. “I date the blacks, I date the Mexicans. I date 'em all for comedy. You can't buy that kind of gold. Having sex with a guy once is worth it.”
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