Comedian will host show he previously helmed for 16 years every Monday starting 12 February and serve as executive producer
Jon Stewart is returning to The Daily Show, the groundbreaking comedy news program he had previously helmed for 16 years.
The homecoming, announced by Showtime and MTV Entertainment Studios on Wednesday, comes after the production’s yearlong search for a replacement for host Trevor Noah – and just in time for the 2024 presidential election to heat up in earnest.
The plan is for Stewart to host every Monday, beginning on 12 February. He will also serve as an executive producer for the show, which will have a rotating lineup of comedians during the rest of the week.
Absolutely. You know when Bush Junior was President, we called that crazy too, when he was elected for a 2nd term we basically lost all hope for the American people and USA as a nation. That was just too stupid in so many ways.
That USA was able to top that with Trump, makes you lose hope in humanity. USA was EDIT: (among) the first democracies in the world, but can't do democracy even remotely well.
There is still hope, but it's vanishing ever more over time. Nixon would be a hero of competence and integrity today, compared to Bush and Trump.
This is NOT just a one time off, this is now a pattern.
Some sources claim USA is the oldest democracy, apparently oldest doesn't mean first?
Not the first democracy, debatably the first representative democracy out of a liberal revolution, by a couple of years. One of the first written constitutions.
But you know the big difference in how the US handles democracy? It has sacralized its foundational moment. France got there at the same time, and they're on the fifth full refresh. There are vanishingly few examples in the world of liberal democracies that haven't updated their systems in a major overhaul at least once. The same exceptionalism that leads to the debatable-at-best "first democracy" factoid makes it impossible to fix the very obvious flaws in the system.
I do agree that it's weird to have lived through Bush and 9-11 and Iraq and now think of it as a quaint fun little thing. We all protested and felt righteous and Stweart was on TV when it was cool and fresh to do political comedy that way and it seemed like rock bottom.
This is the real way to win elections. It's a lot harder to change political opinions than it is to simply get people off their asses to vote. ~50% turnout in most elections, and that's true for both parties.
The Jon Stewart Crossfire episode is still one of my favorite interviews ever. It might not have been Jon's shining moment, but it did cost Tuck his job. Though, thinking about it, tuck did pretty well for himself afterwards.
Oh God. Did Jon Stewart create Tuckers Fox success?
And for my part, I shall not wholly fail of my task, though the Daily Show should perish, if anything passes through this night that can still grow fair or bear fruit and flower again in days to come. For I also am a Stewart. Did you not know?
I tried Noah. Dudes stand up is legitimately good, but his Daily Show stuff could be summed up as "what's all that about shrug". Just wasn't the right man for the job.
Yeah, and unfortunately, some of the correspondents seemed to be more about representation than being legitimately funny. I thought Noah was affable enough, but maybe too affable, if you know what I mean. I like Jon's persona very much and the format suits him well. Craig Kilborn's version of the show was barely memorable for me. I think I Tivo'ed it just because, but once Jon made it his own, I forgot all about the prior version.
The best thing on the show in recent years has been, ironically enough, a white dude - Jordan Klepper does standout work, especially when out talking to the magabunch. But he is rarely part of the show.
Comedy Central need to give him full employment, TBH. His show only lasted about a minute there, but it was great. The other funny people on there are the one white guy that is sort of the everyman and the white woman ( I think they were both given a chance to guest host too, and did pretty good), and then there is Ronnie Chang, who is usually hilarious. Love it when he's on the screen.
As for many other guest hosts and correspondents - I don't know, I guess some audiences confuse being very loud with actually being funny, but that is not my thing.
I first saw him on QI on BBC. I was really excited about the pick because I thought he was quite interesting. The announcement was the first I heard any press about him here.
That's because Trevor Noah was objectively a terrible choice to fill that roll.
He might of have been a fine choice to take over from Craig Kilborn's Daily Show, but not the deeply political satire show that Jon Stewart had turned it into.
His comedy isn't for me, but he's not an unfunny person. But his entire knowledge of American politics and culture seemed to mostly come from watching MSNBC, CNN, and reading the New York Times. His lack of nuance and a deeper understanding, well, it showed in the final product.
It's almost like they looked at how well Jon Oliver did as a guest host and just assumed he'd be a diverse Jon Oliver.
i really hope he a) brings some of the problem w/ jon stewart writers with him, because they did a great job there b) he gives desi lydic the host chair eventually and c) he refrains from doing that awful centrist "rally for sanity" nonsense this cycle since republicans pretty much want me dead as a trans person.
But can't stop thinking of the story that Hasan Minhaj was pushed out of this role. He was supposed to be at the front of this race, then The New Yorker does an "expose" in him, he gets dropped from the race and he makes a video where he has receipts against the New Yorker piece. So some people claim that it was done just to get him dropped from the race.
Oh glad to have him back. Frankly, I don't think Trevor did nearly as good a job. A few of the guest hosts were not too bad and quite a few were wayyyyy obnoxious and not all that funny at all.
Jon Stewart is returning to The Daily Show, the groundbreaking comedy news program he had previously helmed for 16 years.
The homecoming, announced by Showtime and MTV Entertainment Studios on Wednesday, comes after the production’s yearlong search for a replacement for host Trevor Noah – and just in time for the 2024 presidential election to heat up in earnest.
“In our age of staggering hypocrisy and performative politics, Jon is the perfect person to puncture the empty rhetoric and provide much-needed clarity with his brilliant wit,” McCarthy said.
He specialized in takedowns of political hypocrisy and was particularly vocal about the damage done by the mindless partisanship that was increasingly becoming a facet of American public life.
Following Noah’s own decision to step down in December, the show featured a variety of hosts, including Sarah Silverman, Leslie Jones and Hasan Minhaj.
The Paramount+ service said it will stream episodes featuring Stewart the day after they air on Comedy Central, in a victory for a platform still struggling to match the viewership figures of its competitors.
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