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==Work== Javerbaum was hired as a staff writer with ''[[The Daily Show with Jon Stewart]]'' in 1999. He was promoted to head writer in 2002 and became an executive producer at the end of 2006. His work for the program won 11 [[Emmy Award]]s, a [[Grammy Award]], three [[Peabody Award]]s and [[Television Critics Association|Television Critics Association Award]]s for both Best Comedy and Best News Show. He was also one of the three principal authors of the show's textbook parody ''[[America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction]]'', which sold 2.6 million copies and won the 2005 [[Thurber Prize for American Humor]]. He became a consulting producer at the start of 2009 and spearheaded the writing of the book's 2010 sequel, ''[[Earth (The Book): A Visitor's Guide to the Human Race]]''; his co-production of the audiobook earned the [[2011 Grammy Award#Spoken Word|2011 Grammy Award]] for Best Spoken-Word Album. He left the show in 2010. In 2013 he was hired by [[Fusion (TV channel)|Fusion]] to create and executive-produce two news-parody shows, ''[[No, You Shut Up!]]'' and ''[[Good Morning Today]]'', in conjunction with [[The Henson Company]]. In 2015 he worked as a producer for ''[[The Late Late Show with James Corden]]'' on [[CBS]]. In 2016 Javerbaum co-created the [[Netflix]] sitcom ''[[Disjointed]]'' with [[Chuck Lorre]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://variety.com/2016/tv/news/chuck-lorre-kathy-bates-marijuana-comedy-disjointed-ordered-to-series-netflix-1201813796/|title=Chuck Lorre-Kathy Bates Marijuana Comedy 'Disjointed' Ordered to Series by Netflix|last=Holloway|first=Daniel|date=July 13, 2016|language=en-US|access-date=July 14, 2016}}</ref> He was also a consulting producer and one of three writers on Lorre's 2018 Netflix show ''[[The Kominsky Method]]''. As of 2020 he is co-Executive Producer of the upcoming revival of ''[[Beavis and Butt-Head]]'' for Comedy Central. Javerbaum's other work includes serving as head writer and supervising producer for both Comedy Central's first-ever [[The Comedy Awards|Comedy Awards]] and ''[[The Secret Policeman's Ball 2012]]'', writing and producing the original musical-comedy pilot ''Browsers'' for Amazon in 2013, and writing three episodes for the 2011 relaunch of ''[[Beavis and Butt-Head]]''. He wrote for the ''[[Late Show with David Letterman]]'' from 1998 to 1999.
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