Jon Stewart Returns to ‘Daily Show’ as Monday Host, Executive Producer
variety.com
After scuttling a months-long search for a new host, the Paramount Global network said it had enlisted Jon Stewart, who presided over the late-night mainstay’s most popular era, to serve as its host on Monday nights throughout the 2024 election cycle and to run the program. He is expected to oversee the program through 2025. Various “Daily Show” correspondents will host the program Tuesday through Thursday nights, and Jen Flanz, the current executive producer, will continue her duties on the show.
You son of a bitch, I'm in.
A BRILLIANT LIGHT SUDDENLY BURNS IN THE DARKNESS.
HE HAS RISEN
I'll never not believe that if Jon was running the Daily Show for the 2016 election season, Trump wouldn't have been elected.
Either way, Zelenskyy proved what a satirical comedian with good character can do on the world stage. Wish Jon would just run for office already...
Side note: Mehdi Hasan has left MSNBC.... Apart from Jon, I can think of nobody else more qualified to run the Daily Show.
I've thought the same thing ever since that dipshit got elected president in 2016.
Stewart's presence in the media was real and impactful. Really wish he had stayed a few more years.
Idk if so many people remember this now, but watching him on Crossfire absolutely shut them down was so satisfying. Then the show just happens to get cancelled not long after for 'unrelated reasons', like they didn't get destroyed and quit in shame.
Oh yes I remember that fondly. Crazy to think that bumbling bow-tie dipshit would go on to have one of the biggest conservative followings and basically be a Kremlin mouthpiece. Fuck Carlson.
Plus it would have been a golden age. The Bush years all over again
Bassem Youssef is the only not-Jon i want.
Yeah it's no way the timing of Trump was an accident. He literally ran before when Jon was still working and was laughed off the stage. Then Jon retired...
What Zelenskyy did, his career trajectory I mean, is nothing short of… well, the sitcom fiction he wrote himself. A good one, btw— it’s called Servant of the People. It’s on Netflix. He’s hilarious. And that may be the most fucked up part: he seemingly predicted all of this (to some degree) in the form of, honestly, a pretty hilarious sitcom that got cancelled before the 3rd season started production because it fucking came true.
It’s not a direct A:B comparison of reality, but it’s uncannily close— also, proof that Ukraine is perfectly capable of making a delightfully funny politically-oriented sitcom for streaming. Well, until the guy became president and globally-beloved war daddy. Nonetheless, it’s bizarre how it coincided with, or perhaps provoked, real-word events that led to him becoming a popularly-elected anti-corruption president against all of the “influence” Russia could throw at the elections.
And he’s lived up to all of his promises. He spent the first pert of his presidency cleaning house, something he’s kept doing, even after meeting deep parliamentary resistance. Fucker has stood up to Trump’s attempts to extort him, over which Trump got impeached, btw. Like… holy shit! World leaders from far greater nations have melted in front of US presidents. Not this guy. After the Russians invaded, something nobody expected a comedian to have the temerity to face, he, in no uncertain terms - with a raised middle finger to Putin - has become one of the most inspiring world leaders of the 21st-century.  not only his people, but people all over the world fucking love him.  More importantly, they respect him. 
He’s amazing.
I think Jon would be great as president. Definitely better than our current options. But if he was done with the Daily Show (and even if he never left) I wouldn't be surprised at all if he didn't want the actual job of being president.
He has explicitly said before that he does not want to run for president and does not want that job.
Which is ironically part of the reason he'd be so good at it.
Which is all the more reason to have a massive write in campaign for him.
Those who do not lust for power, are those most suitable to be burdened with it.
I get what you’re saying but that’s cruel as fuck.
I think that job would kill him.
It's not that cruel. I get what you're saying and agree a little. But if drafted into the job, I think he'd be proud to serve his country and the world.
I think it's not just the main part of the job he doesn't want. He doesn't want to be the center of the media storm. He doesn't want his years of testicle jokes to end up harming the country. He doesn't want the job of begging for the job.
And the main job would be a duty he'd serve, not a fulfillment of a lifelong dream.
If the circumstances are right, I'd consider writing him in. If there wasn't a more important vote. Honestly I should have done it when I lived in Maryland.
Something tells me electing a fucking mentally declining nazi with a hitler fetish is just a skosh more cruel.
Fair point, but I'm talking about the cruelty to a man who does not want the job.
I don’t think Zelensky is a good example of anything lol his government has been the most right-wing and authoritarian government in Ukraine in recent memory. They banned all left-wing parties for goodness sake….
Those of us who remember the Orange Revolution understand the incredible political attack that Ukraine has been under for decades. Russia has expended unprecedented expenditure understanding democracy in order to develop mechanisms to undermine it.
It's extremely unfortunate the reality in which former Soviet states exist. While it's distasteful, it's certainly necessary given a reality that westerners barely understand... Which is kind of shocking to me given the outcome of Jan 6.
I think when the war is over, it would be appropriate for him to not even run. Hard men make hard decisions when under existential threat. I'm glad Ukraine had a Churchill when Ukraine needed a Churchill... But when that time comes for a peacetime leader, it doesn't mean he wasn't the right man in the right place at the right time.
It is from a position of privilege and ignorance that we criticize the necessary actions of wartime leaders.
You think necessary actions is absorbing and legitimising far-right and Nazi militias? Literally banning and arresting left-wing activists? Kidnapping men in the middle of the night to conscript them? Bombing indiscriminately civilians on the East? Bro fuck off.
Churchill was a genocidal racist maniac btw, if he’s your idea of a hero, I understand where you’re coming from. And again, bro fuck right the fuck off.
I'm continually perplexed by people who claim to be anti-nazi but are here to light up (checks notes) Winston Churchill.
I think there's room for "Churchill was instrumental in the fight against fascism" and "Churchill was himself racist and enacted racist policies that lead to genocide" to coexist.
In the context of a good faith conversation, I agree.
When people are bending over backwards to intentionally push well-defined buttons to drive state-level propaganda, I do not.
It's so incredibly well crafted, this doofuses original post. He argues that Zelenski is a nightmare to the Left-wing.
Why? Because it's a position and delivery crafted to the general Lemmy populace. "I'm left wing! Is Zelensky against me? Should I be reconsidering my position? Am I against Ukraine, because I'm certainly for left-wing stuff"
It's nausiatingly transparent propaganda. Ever meter of Ukraine under Russian occupation, it is illegal to even SUGGEST that LGBT is good, it's ILLEGAL to merely express POSITIVE SENTIMENT. While we can agree in Ukraine it isn't perfect, it's NOT EVEN CLOSE to the oppression in Russia.
There is nuance that adults in good faith can examine. The FBI investigation into Russian interference in US elections pointed out that the EXACT vulnerability in western sensibilities that their propeganda exploits is the concept that every assertion warrants a discussion. Just cycle wedge issues. Drop in, drop a bomb, fuck off.
It's entirely appropriate to just say "No, you're clearly a bad faith actor and I'm not going to give the illusion of legitimacy of your claims by digging into the nuances with you"
You really seem misinformed. Wagner has more association with nazism. Even Putin's right-hand man, his modern Rasputin if you will, is a literal dyed-in-the-wool neo-nazi who wrote the plans Putin is literally carrying out.
Russia's invasion of Ukraine is of no difference than Hitler's justification to invade Poland "for ethnic Germans."
At the end of the day, the Jewish leader Zelenskyy who lost family in the Holocaust, disrupted the sockpuppetry that was originally taking place in Ukraine. As the war continued, the remnants of corruption have continued to be weeded out, though still some remain.
You really seem misinformed. There are Nazis in Russia, nobody said there weren’t. But Russia didn’t absorb the Nazis into their government and state apparatus, gave them leadership positions in ministries etc.
And Nazi Germany invaded Poland because of Lebensraum, basically German Manifest Destiny. Russia invaded Ukraine because of NATO and the color revolution in 2014.
Yes Russia did, what are you smoking? I just told you Putin's right-hand man is a nazi. You just ignored that conveniently lol. RT, the Kremlin mouthpiece, spouts nazi propaganda on the daily.
What absorption of nazism in Ukraine are you talking about and when, specifically?
No, Russia didn't even Ukraine "because NATO," considering Ukraine wasn't in NATO and intentionally didn't join to stop Russian aggression. Yet Russia did so anyway.
Ironically the DEFENSIVE Alliance that is NATO would've saved many lives of women and children from the brutal Russian invasion because Russia knows they'd get demolished by NATO.
You are clearly drinking far too much Russian vodka, my friend.
Finally, please learn your history regarding WWII:
But you're right: this was just a convenient excuse. Just as Russia is using it as a convenient excuse for their own sort of Lebensraum, basically Russian Manifest Destiny. Or wait -- did you not read Putin's 5,000 word essay where he spells this out...?
Assuming you're talking about the Azov Batallion, if you are fighting a war for your country's survival and you have a rabid band of ethnonationalists, who clearly suck in terms of their views and beliefs, but are otherwise willing to die to protect your country, why wouldn't you let them?
… I’m talking about right-sector, azov, national corps etc. They were brought into leadership and legitimized as part of the national guard and army. That is inexcusable. You would really side with Nazis to defend “your country”? After the war is over, Ukraine will become an ultra-right wing state. The state apparatus will have been completely overtaken by these militias and groups.
That’s like saying the UK should’ve legitimized and absorbed the British Fascist Party during WW2, made Oswald Mosley the minister of defense (which was done in Ukraine…) etc. That’s insane, but it does show how you liberals see the world. Scratch a liberal etc etc
Do you think Nazis don't exist in modern western militaries? Also, you think Nazis are liberal? You seem like either a troll or an idiot.
Azov et. al., literally make up <1% of the total UAF. lol what are you talking about? These people just have a common enemy and it's all-hands-on-deck to oust the foreign invader. The same thing even happened in WWII America when pro-Nazi sects of our society took up arms against Japan.
Yknow what? If nazis are willing to die to defend your country, let them.
Right I don't get what's so hard to comprehend.
In America we have an arguably bigger base of right-wing nazi extremists. The Base, Oathkeepers, 3%ers, Proud Boys, etc.
... And you know what? If someone invaded our country that may actually be the only time my bleeding heart leftist would share a fox hole with them out of common goals.
That doesn't make USA a nazi state lol. But of course, let's not pretend this was ever a legitimate argument by Russia in the first place.
Finally, some good news.
Out of a lot of jackasses in the world, Jon Stewart continues to be clear-headed unmitigated good.
Yes, that means I have forgiven him for using trans people as the butt of his jokes for a long time, and I'm hoping he's had enough growth to understand why those were bad. Also, to be fair, it's been quite a while since he has done a joke like that. And if he turns on a dime and makes some uncouth remarks about trans folks, he'll be in shit-city with me, and I'll take back the good things I said about him. Pretty sure he won't tho.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/jon-stewart-atones-for-his-own-shitty-anti-trans-jokes
He is self aware and takes responsibility, which I think is the best thing we can expect from just about anyone.
I did link that at the end, after a quick Google. I don't have AppleTV and never saw The Problem with Jon Stewart, so I was unaware of this, but the fact that he defended Chappelle at first was a bad look and to my knowledge he hasn't amended his statement on Chappelle's defense.
Stewart didn't defend Chapelle, Stewart opposed censorship and penalties with one reason being Stewart being called antisemitic for criticizing how Israel treats Palestinians. Note this is from 2022 and I'm pretty sure Stewart still thinks Israel's actions are terrible.
https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/11/jon-stewart-defends-dave-chappelle-controversial-snl-monologue
And anyone coming from Reddit (or here) should understand.
How many comments aren't posted just to avoid the backlash and downvotes?
I'm talking about something that preceded that and is about Stewart defending Chappelle's anti-trans jokes and positions.
I'm not linking directly to a shitrag like the New York Post, but I couldn't find another article on it.
https://web.archive.org/web/20211022145129/https://nypost.com/2021/10/22/jon-stewart-defends-decent-dave-chappelle-amid-scandal/
Stewart specifically defended Chappelle after Chappelle referred to himself as a TERF on his standup special.
Thanks! I had not seen that one yet.
Yeah it would mean a lot to me if Jon Stewart could just say "Okay, yeah, Chappelle is officially being hurtful on purpose."
Because he fucking is. Guy basically thinks trans people should have to suffer the indignities black people did to get respect... because he doesn't realize they fucking did already. But beyond whether they did or not already, does Chappelle really want to fucking play Oppression Olympics? Fuck me man, I thought we all deserved respect because of human rights, not because we were supposed to suffer under abuse first. That's some real Boomer shit, "It was bad for me, so I better see it being bad for you before I respect you."
Chapelle has completely shit the bed over thr last decade by switching from someone who had clever takes on racial issues with some shitty takes on other subjects to leaning entirely into spewing hate while crying about nonexistent cancel culture.
Yes, Chapelle wants to play oppression Olympics while excusing his hot takes because he had 'one trans friend'. I forced myself to watch most of his Closer special to see if it was as bad as people claimed and it was, so from here on out I will just assume the worst things said about him are probably true.
Isn't it amazing that the people that cry about this the most fill stadiums for their shows? Must be fucking terrible to be "cancelled" and rolling in fucking money.
The only people that have actually been canceled by 'cancel culture' are sex offenders like Bill Cosby and Kevin Spacey. Before that people like Harvey Weinstein was canceling women for not giving him blowjobs.
Yeah, anyone who tries to milk the myth of cancel culture for publicity is a piece of shit.
I would just like to add that I think the right more aggressively pursues the parody of "cancel culture" that they claim exists on the left. They canceled the Dixie Chicks who were nearing the height of their career and said something bad about Bush and the war in Iraq and were put out to pasture. Same thing with Sinead O'Connor and her ripping up a picture of the pope...there are dozens of examples...dozens! arrested_development_dozens.gif
It's the same thing they do with a lot of things. For instance they'll claim the left is using "identity politics" while running on "keep black people out of the suburbs" and "keep gay people out of wedlock" as a platform.
I personally believe the idea is to associate effective tools and mechanisms with "overreach by the left" so people on the left stop using them and they can continue to be used and abused purely for right-wing causes without critique.
I mean look at how they'll constantly associate "virtue signaling" with the left while they're sending around Christmas cards with the whole family smiling and holding rifles.
You can boil it down to "they don't LIVE in good faith."
Everything is performative and a means to and end. They don't have values other than power over others.
Oh but it’s so easy to just say “cancel culture!” in response to anything I don’t like! Damn libs taking everything good away.
I'm less concerned about trans jokes specifically, but I worry that Jon Stewart of now won't be able to live up to our memories of him during the W years. Will be be sufficiently progressive for modern left viewers, or is he going to be a Bill Maher "center left" type? Will he be is sharp and cutting as he was, and be able to translate that to a world that is so more polarized and down the rabbit hole with conspiracy theories and all that junk?
Basically I'm afraid this is Michael Jordan coming out of retirement to play for the Washington Wizards.
Maybe my concerns are not well placed, I didn't catch his newer show because I don't feel like subscribing to Apple TV, so I don't know where he's at nowadays. I'm cautiously optimistic, but I'm fully prepared to be let down.
Everyone says the darkest timeline started when Harambe was killed. I think it was when Stewart left the Daily Show.
Maybe this will be able to get us back a little bit.
Dicks Out For Harambe
Or 9/11, JFK assassination, or MLK, maybe when Debbie Wasserman Schultz handed the DNC over to the Clinton campaign, maybe after the civil war when the traitors weren’t brought to justice, or when Gore won but didn’t take the seat. There are so many turning points.
I often wonder if an impassioned Jon Stewart plea in 2016 might have motivated enough young Bernie supporters to make the difference in a few swing states.
Chicago Cubs world series.
Why did he leave btw? Did he retire?
Almost seems like he took a holiday and now wants to start back on easier hours.
He had been doing it for 16 years. I think he said he needed a break. He took one for a few years, then started a show on Apple TV which was recently ended by Apple.
Reading this and thinking "It started in the 90s?" before realising 16 years ago was 2008...
Nothing would have been easier than hosting during the 2016 campaign w/ Trump doing the writing for him.
He could have had a show compromised of nothing but reading quotes verbatim, pausing only for nonverbal reactions
Great! Now do President.
Does Jon even want the job? It sucks. You have to deal with so many roadblocks. You get blamed for everything. You pitch ideas and make demands and some shithead dept will block you and some company throws billions to turn the public against you.
Unless he finds loopholes like Trump and load it up with toadies willing to bow to the king, which I doubt Stewart wants to abuse because he has ethics, it'll be hard to get much of the government on his side.
Even basic shit like feeding school kids is a fucking political theater by assholes.
He doesn't want the job. That's kinda the point. We could use someone who doesn't WANT the job but does it anyway.
The only people who should be allowed to hold power are people who don't want it.
Make it like jury duty. You get 4 years in the hotseat then it's on to something else. Imagine the diversity of experience, good and bad. You can't lead a committee that has anything to do with your civilian career.
That would be in the same spirit as the system of government in ancient Athens. Common people being chosen by lottery to have a seat in governement. From the little I know on the subject, I always thought it seemed like a really solid democratic system.
DENNIS: Oh king, eh, very nice. An' how'd you get that, eh? By exploitin' the workers -- by 'angin' on to outdated imperialist dogma which perpetuates the economic an' social differences in our society! If there's ever going to be any progress--
WOMAN: Dennis, there's some lovely filth down here. Oh -- how d'you do?
ARTHUR: How do you do, good lady. I am Arthur, King of the Britons. Whose castle is that?
WOMAN: King of the who?
ARTHUR: The Britons.
WOMAN: Who are the Britons?
ARTHUR: Well, we all are. we're all Britons and I am your king.
WOMAN: I didn't know we had a king. I thought we were an autonomous collective.
DENNIS: You're fooling yourself. We're living in a dictatorship. A self-perpetuating autocracy in which the working classes--
WOMAN: Oh there you go, bringing class into it again.
DENNIS: That's what it's all about if only people would--
ARTHUR: Please, please good people. I am in haste. Who lives in that castle?
WOMAN: No one live there.
ARTHUR: Then who is your lord?
WOMAN: We don't have a lord.
ARTHUR: What?
DENNIS: I told you. We're an anarcho-syndicalist commune. We take it in turns to act as a sort of executive officer for the week.
ARTHUR: Yes.
DENNIS: But all the decision of that officer have to be ratified at a special biweekly meeting.
ARTHUR: Yes, I see.
DENNIS: By a simple majority in the case of purely internal affairs,--
ARTHUR: Be quiet! DENNIS: --but by a two-thirds majority in the case of more--
ARTHUR: Be quiet! I order you to be quiet!
Of the people, by the people, for the people, literally
I’d cry.
That's Wednesdays
Everyone could write him in and he would have to do it, right?
They would be wasted votes, and have to do it would be considered indentured servitude I'm fairly certain haha
Finally some good fucking news
About bad news
9/11 was good news. Well it wasn't good news, obviously, but it was good news.
For people who love Bad news 🎶
Sorry, kinda had that feel
Well Jon Stewart's coming back, so we've got that going for us at least!
Doing more for America than the government was.
He's a god damn hero, I mean that genuinely.
Thank God. I still can't believe he was off air for the first Trump presidency.
How dare you say “first”. Don’t you put that bad mojo on me
Oh....you're gonna be a sad, sad boy January next year.
The only worthy host of the show. He was able to make a comedy show compete with shows on so-called news channels.
I wonder why it looks like he was the last person considered for the show, is it because he cared about issues that he talked about and made young people care?
He was doing his own thing until Apple killed his show over fears that he would talk about China.
It’s not quite that simple. Stewart wanted to do a show critical of China, Apple said, no, and Stewart walked. Since this was during the negotiations for his next season of his show, they mutually agreed not to renew for the next season.
Yes, this is shitty of Apple to put a limit on him like this, but it wasn’t so hostile as it might seem. 
You made it sound pretty simple.
lol, i elaborated.
I hope it’s his first episode back.
I think it would be great if he could have Chris Chappell from China Uncensored on Youtube (https://youtube.com/@ChinaUncensored) as a guest on that episode when it happens.
Kilborn wasn't that bad.
It was OK, but it was a really different show than what Jon Stewart ended up doing with it. It was much more like 1990s-era SNL‘s Weekend Update. 
He was the last person considered because 1) he already hosted for 16 years and quit so they probably assumed he didn’t want to go back to it, and 2) when they started considering people, Stewart was under contract with a competing show on AppleTV+ (The Problem w/ Jon Stewart), but that show was recently cancelled. Also, The Problem only airs once a week, so imagine Stewart told CC that he’d only come back to do one show weekly rather than the four that he used to do.
Because he retired from the show in 2015. Hence why he's only coming back part time. It was his choice to leave the first time, so that's probably why he was the last one to reach out to.
The coincidental timing with his contract non-renewal with Apple is also quite… serendipitous, no?
Stewart is at the point in his career where he doesn’t want to commit to something more than a weekly show and executive producership. He’s also digging the podcasting space. This works out for everyone. 
It's funny. I saw the potential of the daily show early on. Was a fan from the first episode.
When they let Craig Kilborne go, replaced him with no name comedian Jon Stuart, and ended five questions, I was so angry I wrote to Comedy Central and said the show would never be funny again. Boy was I wrong.
He likely wasn’t the last person considered. He was the hardest person to get.
He had another show up until recent, and I was famously burnt out from the Daily Show. They Likely need to wait until he was free and make him an offer that he couldn’t resist.
I'm just a random person in the world, so my opinion doesn't mean much in the grand scheme of things.....but I have never found Trevor Noah even slightly funny my entire life.
I feel bad saying that, because he seems like a genuine, sincere person from what I have read and watched, but his delivery on the Daily Show just comes across as bland/flat to me, I stopped watching maybe 1 year into his tenure.
Maybe not funny all the time, but if you go on YouTube the daily show channel used to post between the scenes cuts of Trevor. I also used to dislike his delivery, but I found him way more interesting and engrossing in the more off-the-cuff style. I am convinced it was the writers or producers who were dropping the ball.
I also loved his freeform stuff. Perhaps scripted hosting just isn't his bag.
As someone with no special insight into the internal workings, and who didnt watch trevor noah's DS too much, or know much about noah himself, i've honestly been pretty convinced that the problems with TN DS doesn't really have anything to do with trevor specifically, but i'm reasonably sure that comedy central took jon stewart leaving as an opportunity to "tame" the writing on the show.
I feel like comedy central wanted to pull the show back from leaning too far left to appeal to a wider audience.
What i mean by that, is where jon stewart might tear into a political figure for the way they stand on some particular issue he disagrees with, trevor's daily show would like...make fun of their hair/clothes, or some other "safe" joke that doesn't get too political.
And noah, unfairly, probably takes all the blame for this, even though i'm quite sure this is on the studio heads and was outside his control.
As a non-US person, I want to point out that US politics has shifted so far to the right that centrists in any other country would look like far left to you.
I'm aware, I'm just explaining what I think was the view from the network on the matter
"too far left"
I mean, Jon Stewart is pretty left if you consider the majority of Democrats to be Neoliberals. Jon lambasted everyone, and that's fine, bit then he lambasted companies and "centrist" talking points, and THAT was too far for some.
His show was wildly popular, seems unlikely he was too far anywhere.
I absolutely turned around on Noah. His standup is fantastic.
His daily show era is still kinda bland. His "Outsider looking into America" perspective didn't really fit what Stewart built up.
Agreed. He had big shoes to fill, and I don't know that anyone except maybe Colbert could've actually done it. He did have some good moments though, I remember a brief segment where he questioned why the US always seems to make things into an X vs Y dynamic, instead of X and Y.
"Why does it have to be cat people and dog people? Why can't we just love both of them?!"
His stand-up is actually really great. I just never really liked him all that much on TDS.
I'll have to check out his stand up too.
I liked his from-home stuff during Covid, but never liked TDS with Trevor Noah. I'm not exactly sure why. Too silly, not "edgy," insightful, or hard hitting enough I guess. John Oliver's show is pretty good though.
Kinda like John Oliver for me, He's a better writer than performer I think and I don't like his delivery
Nobody did.
Stewart is great, but I wonder if any of the original writing staff is returning as well. He didn't carry the original show alone, and even the opening monologue will hit different if there's a new team behind it.
I assume he'll bring some Apple TV folks along.
But also the show has been solid for years. Trevor did a great job, the guest hosts have done an great job. The show is and has been great.
Now, that isn't to say you don't need a good host. The guest hosts only having a week or so don't have time to make the show truly their own, but they still add their personal touch.
Trevor, during the pandemic especially, added a huge personal touch and really made the show work well.
Jon, coming back, is going to have a lot of fun and I'm looking forward to it.
I'm also curious as to whether he'll bring back any old writing staff, not least because one of the hosts of my favorite podcast was head writer on the show when Jon left. If I had to guess, though, he'll probably recognize the need to have younger writers at the forefront.
Consequential election + Stewart… America’s back baby!!
Hanging chads pt II coming this Winter
I'm the asshole who liked the og show and host Killborn. I didn't watch it initially when Stewart took over. It was a different show... Man what an idiot I was.... While I liked the og version Stewart made it so much better. Glad to see him back in some form.
I liked Craig too, that was a fun era for Comedy Central. I remember they played a lot of Absolutely Fabulous and Viva Variety back then. Good times.
It's really better to think of them as two completely different shows both with very different philosophies and strengths. One just happened to begin when the other ended. Also Jon's show took a while to find its legs.
Kilborn had a comedy show that looked like a news show. Even the interviews of the daily guest had a zany, fake-pressure vibe.
Stewart used comedy to get people engaged in a news show. Everyone else that has tried has either had too much comedy, or too much news. Too much news sounds like video essays and too much comedy isn't as impactful.
I liked the Kilborn show. He kind of an asshole, but I'm not one to hold that against people. But I feel we need the Stewart show.
Yep. Agreed on everything
I remember the original ads of "it's the same Daily show, but now under 6 feet tall" or whatever
You reminded me to go back and find the Waco, TX promo. So much nostalgia.
Same. I wrote to Comedy Central and said the show would never be funny again. Ha.
Can you americans explain what this means to everyone else in the world? Seems like a big deal to some people...
He has a great mix of humor and serious discussions about important topics. He calls out guests for avoiding answering difficult questions etc.
I cant even express it very well, but the man is a legend. One of a kind.
Sounds like what a journalist should be.
He's willing to ask the questions other networks are to afraid to ask. He has destroyed careers because of it look up jon Stewart and hard ball. We do have NPR and MSNBC but they still won't ask the hard questions or confront the hosts. I've heard that only a couple of times on NPR but only lately. Plus Jon can taunt the people to afraid to come on unlike a professional news orgs.
When he got together with Colbert and did the Colbert report and tricked the entire GOP that was just icing on the cake.
Yeah he sure "destroyed" Tucker Carlson's career after that Hardball segment!
He took Tucker down so hard he was ejected from the real media and had to work at Fox.
And rake in millions and become a cult figure. Really ruined him let me tell you what.
Sure he was successful in his second career as a Fox hack (though ultimately ejected from that as well and bumped down another level to a twitter video guy) - it's a lot to ask to not just take someone down so hard they have to not only leave their job and go work at a different kind of company, but can never be successful again.
He was a hack at CNN. Jon Stewart may have gotten him fired, but you can't seriously look at Tucker Carlson and say Jon ruined his career. Listen, I hate the man with a passion, but he's living high on the hog.
Like I said, he ruined his career in the mainstream media, after which he did what so many people who couldn't make it in the mainstream have done before him and went into the less prestigious right-wing propaganda industry where standards are lower if you're willing to say abhorrent things. Tucker was indeed very successful at that second career and is a rich man (though he was already with the Swanson frozen food fortune) but I don't think that invalidates the initial takedown.
If you're a cook fired from a steakhouse downtown, and get hired at a cafe/restaurant near the town college's campus, you haven't changed careers. Someone's opinion of the two restaurants doesn't change that.
Jon Stewart is quite awesome in my book. He is legit funny and he put the Daily Show on the map with being officially a comedy show (and it was hilariously funny) but at the same time being just about the only reliable news source as he just cut through the political bullshit from both sides (again, in a super funny way). He has great interviews with politicians where he calls them out on their bullshit so hard that you wonder why any politician would still want to do interviews with him, but yet they kept coming.
Thing is, you can tell that he researches and knows the subjects that he talks about and he actually cares, so if during interviews the guy comes up with some bullshit arguments Jon would typically tear him a new hole with actual facts. He was like the original "he crushed that guy" guy. IIRC, he (temporarily) crushed ticket Carlson's career by literally ending tickets show overnight with an interview. Unfortunately, Jon retired and Tucker was fucking back.
His show also was the birth place of other comedians like john Oliver (who went on to make the similar great show "last week tonight"), Steve carell, and Stephen Colbert
The guy following after him, Trevor Noah, was just a sad little shadow, honestly, and in stoked to hear Jon is back as he has shown that he hasn't lost his touch.
Yeah, before Tucker got his Fox segment, he used to do a show on CNN with Paul Begala called Crossfire, whose entire schtick was having a conservative and a liberal talking head co-hosting the show and basically arguing with each other for an hour. Jon came on the show in 2004 and ripped the entire concept apart so thoroughly that it got the entire show cancelled. It's truly a glorious moment: https://youtu.be/aFQFB5YpDZE&t=0
That's intense. Good on him.
And twenty years later the knock on effects of that era of programing have become the culture.
Thanks, that's some resume.
The Daily Show was funny with Craig Killborn.
More like Talk Soup funny than anything intellectual or political.
But still was worth a chuckle.
In addition to what the others have said, Jon was a strong advocate for the 9/11 First Responders. Being a New Yorker himself, he took it extremely personally when Congress (controlled by, well go ahead and guess) was dragging their feet on giving these guys the health benefits they needed.
His testimony before Congress was fantastic, and ultimately he succeeded
Whoever uploaded that realised they could cut it to exactly the right length.
I didn't even notice the first time I saw it and I don't know it's deliberate on Jon's part but the speech and reaction fit perfectly.
It's an incredible speech and worthy of that detail.
Was gonna link his monologue after 9/11 as well
Jon Stewart made me a proud blue dog Democrat growing up. Maybe I'll be one again someday
He was the best host of The Daily Show, a show that made current events and politics palatable to Americans that have Comedy Central. He's also immensely likable as a person. He fought for the US government to uphold their promise to first responders of 9/11 that all have mesothelioma from asbestos inhalation. He generally cuts to the core of most issues and doesn't suffer fools. He will call people out directly to their faces.
Sounds like a good egg.
He's a much beloved comedian and a great show host. I think people are just excited to have him back again, especially in this contentious political environment where he thrives as "the guy who asks hard questions when nobody else will".
More people will tune into non-Fox based politics because of his showmanship
He would have made the best president in America's history (yes). Look to Ukraine for what you get when you elect the guy who speaks truth to power.
Incompetent searchers, they already had Roy Wood Jr's phone number.
I actually liked the rotating host format tbh. I feel like it kept the show fresh and fit well with the post-Stewart vibe where it was more about the content and writing than the host.
For real, what an enormous waste of time. I was actually looking forward to their new choice.
The only way this would get any better is of he can get an interview with Donald Trump. That'd be like bringing the pig to a slaughter house
Trump is pretty dumb, but I don't think he's dumb enough to do that. Jon would eviscerate him.
He is egotistical enough to think he could go toe to toe with Stewart.
If he did go on, he would spin his absolute journalistic murder into more fuel for his media hate campaign.
I am so here for this
What’s the best way, without cable or torrenting, to watch Comedy Central these days?
Edit: looks like Paramount+ might have it in the states. From time to time I sub to that to blast through all its Trek content, so this might work out for me.
Parts of the episode are uploaded to YouTube by Comedy Central.
Large portions of the show, actually.
Seems like the only way to watch full episodes is to have cable, no?
Yes and no.
When new episodes are aired, they're broken up into chunks and are uploaded to YouTube on the Daily Show channel. This includes the opening comments, any special pieces, and guest interviews.
It actually gets a bit annoying sometimes. There can be as many as four videos released in a day, and then you add in the shorts and internet exclusive rehash episodes...
I deleted my comment, because it was deceiving, you DO have to have a cable package to watch them online on the comedy central website. I misread originally.
Youtube TV or Sling?
They've got a really talented bench of people, I'm surprised this has gone on so long (though I am far from a regular viewer). My vote would have gone to Jordan Klepper, who I think has both the intelligence and sincere anger that made Jon Stewart the cultural force he was on the show. My theory is that the execs saw him as too much of a risk after his previous (unfortunately) failed solo outings.
Yeah that's a pretty good take. Klepper's on the street interviews with MAGA idiots and the like are the most Daily Show feeling bits of content I've seen since Stewart left.
Honestly I'm surprised that HBO hasn't picked him up and done a back to back with John Oliver.
HBO barely exists anymore
When the app changed from hbo go to max, I was a little happy because Cinemax was the one with the bad rep back in the day for having softcore porn, a.k.a. “Skinamax” and it felt like a small victory over the fake outrage conservatives.
That stuff isn't even on Max as far as I can tell.
Why would they? They are already crushing it with Last Week Tonight. No need to mess with a winning formula.
They used to run Daily Show and The Colbert Report back to back on Comedy Central and that worked fine. Both shows were pretty popular.
It worked incredibly well from my perspective. Pretty much everyone I know that watched either show would watch both as a single block. I remember Colbert and Stewart doing little bits between the shows as well sometimes. Back-to-back was honestly a fantastic idea.
Yep I thought so too, it was a nice block of TV that really ran well together
Is the show itself only airing on Mondays, or is that just the only night that Jon will host?
Also, as excited as I am to get him back, I hope he didn't let himself get bullied out of retirement. He had definitely earned it.
He will host Mondays and Executive Produce. Other correspondents will host T, W, and Th.
Roy Wood Jr. was great for the job and they didn't want him. Shame. But I'm glad that they caved and gave Jon Stewart more money to fix their ignorance.
I dunno. I really like Roy Wood, Jr., but I don’t think he’d be great as host. His performance isn’t… energetic enough. His style is a bit more laid back, and I’m not sure if that’s the best fit for host of this show. I think he’s great, and an important part of the show, but whenever he hosts, it feels a bit flat.
Just my opinion, though.
I really liked when Charlemagne the God guest hosted. He was hilarious. 
BOOM
This is fantastic. Great news!
Suggestion for first guest: A shirtless Jason Kelce
They didn't ask meeee!
WOOT!!!
It's a little surprising that he's never ventured into his own platform. At this point, Comedy Central (as well as they've been for his sense of political humor thus far) seems a bit of a downgrade for Stewart. Meanwhile, you've got the far right conspiracists getting banned from mainstream social media and forced to establish their own "free speech" platforms. Isn't Jon, in some sense, just the far(ther) left mirror-image version of Jones?
I really enjoyed his stint at Apple (more akin to Last Week Tonight + VOX) and would have liked him to continue more down that path of investigative reporting and interviews. I just don't know if he'll have the freedom he wants / deserves on platform owned by Paramount.
Jon deserves something bigger than a cable comedy network. He deserves a ton of money to invest in passionate journalists and writers. At least something as big, if not bigger, than Oliver gets. I don't know... I just feel like we haven't yet seen Jon as his ultimate form. Maybe our projections of what we all want from him are too grand for his own aspirations.
No. That does a disservice to how fucking crazy the right is now.
Maybe try the tankies from Hexbear if you want a mirror.
Yes. The mirror image of 'fucking crazy' is reasonably sane. Or are you suggesting Stewart isn't as equally sane as the right is crazy?
I don't think Jon is far-left. Maybe a progressive liberal. AFAIK, he's not even a SocDem, much less a DemSoc. Alex Jones is just a grifter conspiracy theorist. The likes of Matt Walsh and Michael Knowles are full-on fascists, and I'd think the mirror of that would be an anarcho-socialist or communist.
Maybe I don’t know the granular definitions of these philosophies. Far-left, progressive liberal, democratic socialist are all the same to me. Or at least all how I would describe my own ideas in general conversation. I’m aware there may be subtle differences but, generally for the point of this not political science 101 conversation about someone who isn’t here to represent themselves, I think we can forgo the nit picks.
thanks for the garbage kind stranger
Chuckling at the news doing nothing is hip again
Thank god, he left when we needed him most. No one gives a shit about what a south African comedian is saying about American politics. Harsh but true
Was it Jon who fell down a conspiracy rabbit hole regarding COVID19? Or the other guy.
Are you thinking about Jordan Peterson?
Nope.
I remember him talking about the Wuhan COVID research facility a stone throws away from ground zero for the outbreak. I have since also had some questions.
I mean I’m not saying that the Wuhan lab couldn’t have been the source, or that the CCP should be given even a millimetre of credit for approximating something like ‘the truth’, but I’ve heard that he went a bit unhealthily hard to wave a particular flag.
"You have heard"?
Look, could it be that you are spreading rumors?
It’s a possibility because I didn’t hear it first hand, but my source was an interview I heard on a reputable podcast. TBH I can’t remember which one or who the person was. It was something like the NYT’s ‘The Daily’ or maybe Slate’s ‘What Next TBD’. I believe the person was a journalist who had been dedicated to following the COVID trail since the beginning.
It’s not a hill I’m prepared to die on, so add your own amount of salt to taste.
Ha ha ha I appreciate those poetics! No worry, I just know that a lot of people talk a lot about a lot of people, and I'm just trying to stay sane. A lot of people say a lot of things these days, right? That's why sourcing is important, to me, I think.
Totally fair thinking. I’ll do what I can to hunt down that podcast and post it here, but it was like … six or eight months ago or more.
Best wishes on your sanity!
EDIT: it could be this one:
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/20/podcasts/the-daily/covid-origins.html
Nah, human. It's all good, I just wanted to CHECK ya, you know what I mean? Just CHECK ya, so I know you legit. I ain't saying you are, but I ain't saying you ain't, just sayin.
Oh… I’m far, far too human. Sadly. Oh fuk.
Noah left? Huh. Makes sense i guess, he felt better during the pandemic when it felt like he was hosting a podcast instead of a show. Eh probably not going to watch anyway, i haven't even turned my television on since early pandemic.
Love JS, and loved daily show. But late night talk shows, have sailed. Stick a fork in them.
Jon Oliver seems to have shown that’s not the case. If the show is good, and it’s hosted where you don’t need to pay for a b-tier streaming service, people will watch.
Lol John Oliver left late night shows. Proving my point. Does a weekly diff format. Thanks guys.
What time of day do you believe that his show airs?
He’s 11pm est, maybe they live in Hawaii or Alaska. Then John Oliver is prime time, not late night.
Huh? The format is the same each week.
Late - Night - Talk - Show
Do I need to speak more slowly?
I guess. John Oliver does interview segments, but they’re rare.
Most of the Daily Show is a current events monologue and a report segment. The interview is the last 7 to 8 min.
They will be cut up and all over socials the next morning. Nobody hit like Jon in the Daily Show format.
He was great. Still is. Hope it works.
TDS isn't even close to the same format.
Yeah. Some adjusted format talk shows have survived. I'm just saying. Been a fan, but I think the late night format, while modified, I still wouldn't by stock in it.
Talk shows are more popular than ever now. We just call them “video podcasts,” sometimes include increasingly hotter hot sauces, and watch them in a different places.