Busboy Productions Busboy Productions Busboy Productions is a production company that was launched by Jon Stewart in the mid-1990s when he was known for hosting "The Jon Stewart Show" on MTV. In addition to Stewart, executive Chris McShane is in charge of development and production. The name of the company is a reference to how Stewart worked as a busboy in a Mexican restaurant as a young man. The company's vanity card features the sound of a glass being knocked over followed by Jon Stewart whispering "Oops. Sorry." Shortly after "The Jon Stewart Show" was canceled, Stewart signed a production deal with
Busboy Productions free to shop them to other networks. Busboy's first television production was The Colbert Report, produced by Stewart, Stephen Colbert, and Ben Karlin, and subject to a distribution agreement between Busboy Productions and Comedy Central, which made certain that "the Report" would run through 2007. The Colbert Report was produced in association with Stephen Colbert's Spartina Productions. Jon Stewart joked in an interview with E!, when asked if he would appear on the Report, that he "doesn't do start-ups" and would wait until the show set into a deeper footing. He has since made several appearances. Colbert's response was that