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Rob Corddry is back with the Daily Show. Rob Corddry (born February 4, 1971) is an American comedian known best for his work on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and as the main character in the FOX sitcom The Winner.

His pieces for The Daily Show have frequently included references to Boston, Massachusetts, which he considers to be his hometown. Some have described his comic style as “a common Masshole”.

He has since become one of The Daily Show’s popular correspondents, where he is well known for his cocky attitude during interviews. Since the departure of Stephen Colbert, who left to host his own show, The Colbert Report, and Corddry taking over the hosting duties of “This Week in God”, Corddry had the most correspondent screentime, becoming a featured part of the show. When he took over “This Week in God,” he mentioned that he is an Episcopalian.

On February 9, 2006, due to the absence of Jon Stewart (jokingly because the show’s regular host was “in the shop”, but in fact because of the birth of Stewart’s second child), Corddry hosted an episode of The Daily Show.

On August 15, 2006, Corddry said “I’ve got like a week and a half left, all bets are off”, and then on August 21, 2006, Stewart remarked that Corddry’s last day on The Daily Show would be August 24, 2006. Corddry appeared throughout the week, once filing a report from inside a toilet bowl supposedly onboard an aircraft transporting John Mark Karr, and another dressed up in a 1970s fashion; Stewart remarked, “It’s his last week, and really, we’re trying to come up with terrible things for him to have to do.”

During that last show on August 24, Corddry aired a self-produced tribute to his four years on the show, going out, as Stewart said, with a “poop joke”.

Stewart: That was a very fitting tribute, Rob. We’re gonna miss you on the show.
Corddry: Why thank you, Jon. But wherever I go and whatever I do, there’ll always be a part of me here.
Stewart: Wow…that’s a really sweet thing to say.
Corddry: No no no, I’m not kidding. It’s in the second floor men’s room, actually. That’s what you get for not giving me a proper sendoff.
Stewart: You’re really gonna go out on a poop joke?
Corddry: I have to stay true to myself, Jon.

The bar featured during the tribute was 21 Nickels in Watertown, Massachusetts, near Corddry’s hometown of Weymouth. The two guys with Corddry in the bar segment were fraternity brothers from UMass.

Corddry left The Daily Show to work on other productions, including The Winner, a 2007 TV series. Cordry told Stuff Magazine that The Winner is “sort of like a fucked-up Wonder Years.”

On September 10, 2007, Corddry made a guest return to The Daily Show as the senior public restroom correspondent, in regards to the Senator Larry Craig bathroom scandal.

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