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Fireside Chat
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With Kara Swisher (Host, On With Kara Swisher & Author, Burn Book), Josh Johnson (Correspondent, The Daily Show). |
| Great Hall at Cooper Union, 7 E 7th St |
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Apr 07 (Mon) , 2025 @ 07:30 PM
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Journalist, author, & host Kara Swisher takes her podcast, On with Kara Swisher, to The Cooper Union's Great Hall stage for one night only. Catch her live interview with Josh Johnson, correspondent for The Daily Show and, according to WIRED, the funniest guy on the internet. The pair will tackle the latest news in tech, politics, & business with searing wit & sharp insight. The On with Kara Swisher taping is free & open to the public.
Registration on EventBrite is required. However, an EventBrite ticket does not guarantee entry as this is a first-come-first-served free event.
Kara Swisher, whose early & no-holds-barred coverage of the technology industry earned her a reputation as Silicon Valley's most feared but revered journalist, is considered the top reporter in the tech game. Currently, she is host of On with Kara Swisher & co-host of the Pivot podcast, as well as editor-at-large of New York Magazine & a CNN contributor. She was named to The Hollywood Reporter's list of Podcast Power Players in 2022, 2023, & 2024, & to the 2023 Out 100, & she received the Pioneer Icon award at the 2023 iHeart Podcast Awards. Swisher co-founded the technology website, Recode, & tech conference, Code, which is the country's premier conference on tech & media. She's the author of the New York Times bestselling memoir, Burn Book: A Tech Love Story as well as aol.com: How Steve Case Beat Bill Gates, Nailed the Netheads & Made Millions in the War for the Web, & There Must Be a Pony in Here Somewhere: The AOL Time Warner Debacle & the Quest for a Digital Future. Paperback copies of Burn Book featuring a new afterword are now available wherever books are sold.
Emmy-nominated writer, stand-up comedian, actor, & NAACP award-winner Josh Johnson is currently a correspondent on Comedy Central's Emmy & Peabody Award-winning program The Daily Show where he was previously a writer for the past seven years. Johnson is also a former writer & performer on NBC's The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, where he made his late-night debut in 2017. Johnson's most recent stand-up special, Josh Johnson: Up Here Killing Myself, premiered on Peacock in 2023 to rave reviews, touting Johnson as a naturally gifted story teller. A prolific writer & performer, Johnson puts out weekly stand-up sets on his YouTube channel. In the past year, he has released over 24 hours of stand-up, & the content on his YouTube channel has been viewed over 225 million times by people all over the world. You can currently see Josh all over the US on his FLOWERS TOUR.
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