Josh Lieb's credits include Producer and Show Runner of The Tonight Show Starring
Jimmy Fallon and stints as Executive Producer of NewsRadio and The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. He won 7 Prime Time
Emmys as a producer and writer for The Daily Show. In 2009, he published a young adult novel, I Am A Genius of Unspeakable Evil and I Want to Be Your Class President, which was a New York Times Bestseller. In 2015, he published his second novel, Ratscalibur. His third book is titled Chapter Two is Missing (2019).
Lieb was raised in Columbia, South Carolina, and graduated from
Harvard, where he was an editor of The Lampoon, the college humor
magazine. After graduation, he found work writing for Twisted Puppet
Theater, The Jon Stewart Show, and NewsRadio. He subsequently worked as
a producer or consultant on shows including The Simpsons, Drawn
Together, Sirens, Nikki, I Hate My Teenage Daughter, and Late Night
with Jimmy Fallon.
Lieb's tenure at The Daily Show lasted from 2006 to 2010, during which
he also served as Executive Producer of The Rally to Restore Sanity
And/Or Fear and as co-editor and co-author of Earth: The Book.
In 2013, he wrote and directed a series of comedic shorts to raise
money and awareness for the charity Water.Org. Stars featured in the
shorts included Matt Damon, Jessica Biel, Sir Richard Branson, and
Bono.