How Jon Stewart's Film Shows That Humor Survives In the Bleakest of Conditions

"When asked about how he reacted to learning that one of his Daily Show satires was used as evidence to torture a journalist in Iran, Jon Stewart says, "I might have uttered the phrase: 'Are you — with some profane adjective — are you kidding me?' "

"'It's so surreal and it's so absurd that it's hard to imagine it as not farce,' Stewart tells Fresh Air's Terry Gross."

"That discovery led to Stewart making his first film, Rosewater, adapted from a memoir by journalist Maziar Bahari."