Madeleine smithberg bio

Madeleine Smithberg earned Peabody and Emmy Awards, for Comedy Central’s The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, which she co-created and ran as executive producer for seven years.

During her tenure, she was directly responsible for the hiring/casting of performers such as Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, Steve Carell, Ed Helms, and Rob Corddry, Mo Rocca, Lewis Black, among others. She served as producer/show-runner for The Daily Show forerunner, “The Jon Stewart Show, on MTV and later in syndication.

She also brought her skills as executive producer and writer of The WB comedy/variety show Steve Harvey’s Big Time. She spent six years as a talent coordinator, then producer, for NBC’s original Late Night with David Letterman after beginning her career as a field producer for RAI Radiotelevisione Italiana (Italian national television).

 

With her production company, Mad Cow Producti