`Daily Show' Producer Leaving

NEW YORK (AP) -- The Emmy-winning executive producer of "The Daily Show" and "The Colbert Report," Comedy Central's two satirical news shows, will leave his jobs with the network at the end of the month.

Ben Karlin, who joined Jon Stewart on "The Daily Show" in 1999, decided that the grind of working on both shows was too much after seven years, said Doug Herzog, the president of Comedy Central.

"Ben has been doing this a long time," Herzog told The New York Times in Saturday's editions. "Four nights a week. Forty-some odd weeks a year."

Karlin, 35, shared the 2005 Thurber Prize for American Humor with his successor at "The Daily Show," David Javerbaum, and Stewart for their book, "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Presents America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction."

A replacement at "The Colbert Report" has not been named.

Karlin, who will serve as a consultant to the two shows, announced his decision to leave on Thursday. Herzog said the parting was amicable.

The two programs are anchors of Comedy Central's programming. "The Daily Show" draws about 1.6 million viewers, while "The Colbert Report" attracts about 1.2 million.

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