“The Daily Show” is becoming quite the career launching pad.
Jason Jones — a correspondent on the Jon Stewart-hosted Comedy Central late night show — has been tapped to co-star in the NBC comedy pilot “Love Is Relative,” according to The Hollywood Reporter.
He follows in the footsteps of other “Daily Show” alums who have moved on to bigger things, including Steve Carell and Ed Helms, who starred in “The Office”; Stephen Colbert, who hosts companion show “The Colbert Report”; and John Oliver, who nabbed his own HBO show (premiering April 27) after filling in for Stewart last summer.
Olivia Munn also went on to star in “The Newsroom” after a short “Daily Show” stint, Al Madrigal is currently co-starring in NBC’s “About a Boy,” and Rob Riggle has a recurring guest role on “Modern Family” and is starring opposite Rob Lowe in an NBC comedy pilot.
In “Love Is Relative,” Jones (who is married to fellow “Daily Show” correspondent Samantha Bee) will star opposite Leslie Bibb, playing a couple who starts to see their marriage differently after her newly divorced brother moves in with them.
If the pilot is picked up to series, according to THR, Jones would exit his role at “The Daily Show,” where he has been a correspondent since 2005.