variety of things if he wants to. he can develop tv shows, movies, but he ll start with web videos or what hbo calls short-form digital content. what does that mean? it means that he ll be able to weigh in, he ll be able to comment on current events and whatever is going on in the world with two to five-minute long web videos that he ll develop, he ll write, he might narra narrate, but might not actually appear on camera for. you could imagine a video that jon stewart makes about a debate where he writes it, he scripts it, he records the audio for it, but then animation actually appears in order to tell the story. he s actually working with a cloud graphics company in order to create these kinds of web videos. and they ll go online in hbo s apps. it s as if stewart has conquered one medium. he conquered television. he had many years on the daily show and now he s off for his next act trying out the internet instead. see if he can instead do a daily
election season outjon stewart, the chidian is striking a new deal with hbo, but he s not quite making his comeback in the way you might think. brian seltzer is here. he s not coming back to television but the internet. it s almost like he s trading the predictability of an every single night daily show for the flexibility of the internet instead. we can show his statement about this new deal. he said that appearing on television 22 minutes a night nearly broke me. but he went on to say i m pretty sure i can produce a few minutes of content every now and then. what s he going to be doing, carol? he s going to be making web videos. he could do these from home if he wants to. he ll come up with ideas about current events, weigh in on the political nonsense of the election season, record the audio and a graphics company will animate it. they ll create animated web videos with jon stewart s opinions. that s kind of cool. until he actually does it. i d like to do that myself, brian.
hour. to be able to bring my race car here to san francisco and race it around on closed off city streets was like a dream come true for me. it s the latest of his insanely popular web videos, gymkhana five. it s a race sport. precision maneuvering around obstacles and controlled skids, spins, and turns called drifting. box genius is the way he uses moving objects like this cable car to take his tire shredding stunts to another level. it s like, okay, you have a small section of a block. here is what you said you were going to do, now go do it. and how about driving 60 miles an hour up russian hill,
himself during the roll out in october and november. of course they got back on track, got the website working. now according to the senior administration official, yes, they are on track to hit 7 million signing up as of this week. that is pretty big news at the white house. they re reacting with glee and happiness i can tell you. check out these numbers. 4.8 million visits to healthcare.gov and 2 million calls to call centers set up. that is just yesterday. people flooding in to buy insurance before the deadline yesterday for enrolling in obama care. we looked at other numbers the administration is putting out about a what happened. administration officials in the last six weeks did 300 radio interviews. a senior white house official did 80 radio interviews according to officials. the web videos like the one you showed attracted 30 million views in the last six weeks. they had 100 celebrities and
website all together. they got it fixed and got it going and got people signing up. as of this morning, they are saying, they believe that obama care will hit the original target of 7 million people signing up this week. how did they do it? a lot of it through social media, like you mentioned, carol. keep in mind, just yesterday, they had 4.8 million visits to healthcare.gov. administration officials doing dozens of interviews, 80 from valer valerie garrett. the web videos, like between two ferns attracted millions of views and hundreds of celebrities and athletes were tweeting support in the last days. you name the celebrity. that celebrity was out there doing it. lebron james and so on. add it all up and you have the president giving a statement in the rose garden later on this afternoon at 4:00.