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No, Really, Obi-Wan’s Home Planet Is Called “Stewjon” and Is Named After Jon Stewart

by Jamie Frevele | 11:02 am, December 23rd

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Jon Stewart, host of The Daily Show, is a Star Wars fan. A big Star Wars fan. A big enough fan to have asked George Lucas what Obi-Wan Kenobi’s birth planet was. While interviewing the Grand Poobah of the Force at Celebration V, Stewart asked this question, and received the response that seemed like a silly statement at the time, but ended up being part of Star Wars canon forever. Obi-Wan Kenobi is from the planet “Stewjon.”

The interview actually took place back in August 2010, during The Main Event at Celebration V, which included a scripted interview between Stewart and Lucas, who provided the following answer to Stewart’s inquiry:

“This is one of the first things I wrote in the very first script. He comes from the planet Stewjon.”

Obviously, this is a silly joke because we doubt George Lucas knew who Jon Stewart was when he wrote his very first Star Wars script. But are we going to sit here and argue and take such joy away from Jon Stewart? Of course not!

Ever since that light-hearted conversation, however, “Stewjon” has completely infiltrated the Star Wars universe. It even proved false the “theory” that Kenobi was born on Coruscant, a fact that had appeared in Star Wars: The Clone Wars Character Encyclopedia, published a mere two months before the fateful Celebration V interview. Because when you have a fan as wonderful as Jon Stewart, this is how you honor him.

(The Next Web via I Heart Chaos)

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  • Anonymous

    I just hope that Stewjon is a backwater planet of limited value, far outside the trade lanes and the interests of pirates and the Hutts, so that it never shows up in Star Wars: The Old Republic.

  • Anonymous

    You upset ’cause he didn’t name it after you?  Santa’s gonna bring you coal…

  • Anonymous

    LULZ.  Not at all.  I just don’t like the name and hardly like the idea of questing around on ‘Stewjon’ for x number of levels.  :)

  • Anonymous

    Shame Tolkien’s dead or he could respond by making Gandalf’s hometown Colbertste.

  • mea.glitch

    Reminds me of the whole thing with jedi “Soon Baytes” who could never be calloed “Master” in the comics thanks to a joke that slipped past the editors..  I think he’s canon too.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Sean-Samonas/1588821150 Sean Samonas

    I’m torn between my love of Jon Stewart and my hatred of George Lucas being completely unable to name planets or people in his series.

    SIGH.

  • http://ladymercury-10.livejournal.com/ Maiasaura

    That’s a funny joke…and a terrible canonical name for a major character’s homeworld.  Please, somebody, make Lucas stop making Star Wars so ridiculous.

  • Anonymous

    I kinda love this.

  • Anonymous

    phlpn.es/829r8s

  • Anonymous

    phlpn.es/829r8s

  • Frodo Baggins

    Well, Gandalf’s from Valinor, so maybe Tolkien was a fan of model Nora Valentin (who was born 12 years after he died).