Malala Yousafzai, 16-year-old educational and women's rights activist, is nothing short of remarkable; she made that apparent with her recent appearance on The Daily Show.

At a young age, she discovered the importance of education through her father, who was a school owner, a poet and an activist, himself. Yousafzai was only 12 and in the 7th grade when she began writing for BBC Urdu, the job made available to her through one of her father's connections. In her BBC blog, she documented the "casual" violence of life under Taliban rule, the destruction of the girls' school, school bans, and the constant noise of artillery fire.

Yousafzai verbalized her outrage with Taliban forces through her BBC blog, on radio shows, and when her blog ended, she and her father were approached by New York Times's Adam B. Ellick about filming a documentary. She began to receive recognition, honors, awards, and, eventually, threats.

Her facebook page was often the site of these threats. She recieved messages from other accounts which used her name, each proclaiming her death.

Then on October 9, 2012, that threat became all too real when a masked Taliban gunman boarded her bus and shot her in the head, the bullet travelled through her head, neck and then ended in her shoulder. But, she survived.

Yousafzai was taken to a military hospital in Peshawar, and was later moved to the Armed Forces Institute in Rawalpindi. She was able to move all four limbs by October 13, following several surgeries. She was then moved to Germany and, later, the UK, with offers to be treated from around the world. On October 17, she came out of her coma.

Yousafzai appeared on The Daily Show earlier this week, prefacing the announcement of the 2013 recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, for which Yousafzai hadbeen nominated. On the show, she discussed being shot, Taliban's enforcement of strict laws to forbid girls from receiving education, and about what she might do if the Taliban came after her again.

"I started thinking about that, and I used to think that the Talib would come, and he would just kill me. But then I said, 'If he comes, what would you do, Malala?' then I would reply to myself, 'Malala, just take a shoe and hit him.' But then I said, 'If you hit a Talib with your shoe, then there would be no difference between you and the Talib. You must not treat others with cruelty and that much harshly, you must fight others but through peace and through dialogue and through education.' Then I said I will tell him how important education is and that 'I even want education for your children as well.' And I will tell him, 'That's what I want to tell you, now do what you want," the potentially youngest Nobel Peace laureate said, leaving Jon Stewart fairly speechless. Though, Stewart did offer to adopt her.

The Nobel Peace Prize was announced Friday, October 11th at 11:00a.m. CET. Alongside Yousafzai, who's traveled the world advocating for girl's education, other contenders for the award were Denis Mukwege (pioneering doctor from the Congo), Hu Jia (human rights activist from China), Mary Robinson (gender equality and gay rights activist from Ireland), Helmut Kohl (chancellor from German),Juan Manuel Santos (anti-guerilla conflict activist from Colombia), Pope Francis (human rights activist from Argentina), Lyumila Alexeyeva (human rights activist from Russia), Svetlana Gannushkina (human rights and workers' rights from Russia, and the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, which won the prize.