Rob Corddry - The Daily Show

In spring of 2002, he was asked to audition for The Daily Show and was accepted. His pieces for The Daily Show frequently included references to Boston, Massachusetts, which he considers to be his hometown.

He had since become one of The Daily Show's popular correspondents, where he was 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 screen time, becoming a featured part of the show.

On October 4, 2005, his younger brother Nate Corddry made his first appearance as a Daily Show correspondent. On January 12, 2006, Corddry's wife Sandra appeared with him on a Daily Show segment; they welcomed their first child, daughter Sloane Sullivan Corddry, on July 3, 2006.

On February 9, 2006 Corddry hosted an episode of The Daily Show 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).

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 on board 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 send off.
Stewart: You're really gonna go out on a poop joke?
Corddry: I have to stay true to myself, Jon.

Corddry left The Daily Show to work on other projects, including The Winner, a 2007 TV series.

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

On October 17, 2007, Corddry made a cameo appearance as himself at a rehab center that Samantha Bee was filming a report in.

On June 12, 2008, Corddry appeared again as the "Senior Lipizzaner Correspondent," reporting on Bush's trip to Slovenia. The skit ended by him asking "You think you gonna do more Lipizzaner stories soon, or..? Because if not, I'd love to come home, you know? See my family--hear my wife is pregnant, so..." He added that he'd "been gone two years, give or take." Jon made him stay.

On March 5, 2009, Corddry appeared again, discussing his own career since The Daily Show in parody of Mark Cooper's descent from an executive to a janitor. It was revealed that he had distracted Jason Jones and stolen his piece, as he had come back to beg for his old job back. He repeatedly referred to himself as "millions of Americans" when making self-deprecating jokes and begging for his job back.

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