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.
Oh, right, he’s out of a job for having too many principles in Apple’s vicinity.
Man, this century turned out so weird.
I kinda want his first big story to be the report on China and he titles it “TOO HOT FOR APPLE!”
I guess I missed what happened with Apple.
tl;dr - Apple told him he had creative control. Then he wanted to do a story on China that China didn’t like and Apple said he couldn’t do it, so he walked.
But capitalism promised me that doing business with China would make them more freedomer, not that capitalism would bow to auth’s capital?
The daily show needs to just grant him a segment called the problem
Man, this century turned out so weird.
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?
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/08/countries-are-the-worlds-oldest-democracies/
USA was the first democracy in the world
Uh, no it wasn’t.
American Jesus invented democracy back in 1775 and then cast a spell to hide its origins in history so the other countries won’t be as jealous of us.
OK it’s the oldest. HUGE mistake.
That is a big difference.
USA was the first democracy in the world,
Off by a few thousand years there bud. Even if you want to limit it to “modern” democracies, Britain has the US beat by a hundred years.
I read that and I was like “Is that what Americans learn in school???”
I can’t speak for all 300 million, but that certainly isn’t what I learned in school.
they definitely teach “oldest constitution” where i am.
Oldest still actively used (and I don’t think it’s something to be proud of) but older constitutional documents exist
The Magna Carta still has a couple statues left in Britain. But they repealed a lot of it as it became irrelevant or outdated.
That’s what needs to happen in the US too, but the country is set up to basically prevent changes in the constitution at this point because the founding fathers couldn’t foresee the size the country became and the spread of population and technologies across it.
Also the racism, so much racism.
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Except I’m not American, but you just go ahead and misjudge things you know nothing about, you are quite good at it.
Well then there’s something wrong with what you were taught in school!
Britain
The constitutional monarchy?
Republics and constitutional monarchies are both forms of democracy.
i mean britain only switched from a full monarchy to a parliamentary system in 1832
Off by a few thousand years
Bullshit.
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.
Good times.
Thanks, Interesting.
John Stewart was amazing on Daily Show IMO, but I don’t think he will have similar impact today.I agree. Everybody is doing his shtick today and there’s no more common water cooler TV anymore, so it’s impossible to have the impact he had (if any, which itself is debatable).
If one needs proof, there’s always the pretty obvious fact that he already had a show until very recently and it’s not like anybody cared. I bet he’ll do great for TDS’ ratings, though. I’ll probably watch.
Tbf, I hate Apple more than I like Stewart, so that had an impact on why I didnt add to his view count, and even if I did, it wouldnt have been in a way that added to his sucess metrics (Aka yohoho)
He won’t change any MAGA assholes’ minds, but if we’re lucky, he will change some independents’ minds.
Or motivate apathetic folks.
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.
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I just need some one to soothe me in these troubled times
Colbert, Meyers and Kimmel have been a big help there. I watch them on YouTube the next morning and all three have been hitting Trump hard.
i love how much kimmel grew up and got good while carolla didn’t
I have never liked Carolla and my dislike has borne itself out based on all the awful shit he’s said.
Or at least get someones attention before they fall down the maga-pit
I don’t care how many times I see this posted today I’m upvoting every single one of them
Jon Stewart is going to be on TV and Tucker Carlson is not. Nature is healing.
Please invite Tucker on as a guest.
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?
Kind of like Seth Meyers wondering if he was the catalyst for Trump to run for president after mocking him at the White House correspondents dinner.
tucker is on twitter which is better than tv /s
I mean, where else can you interview a guy who goes by the name Cat Turd?
Daily Show replacement search:
Fans: AUTHORITY IS NOT GIVEN TO YOU TO DENY THE RETURN OF THE KING
i mean to be fair he’s coming back to be an ep and to help with the search since he’ll only be on one day a week while guest hosts will be on the rest
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 thought the whole point of Denethor was that a Stewart isn’t supposed to be king?
Or, just to rile up the Scots, a Stuart.
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Nice, will definitely check it out. Haven’t watched since he left really.
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.
Desi Lydic seemed to be the most comfortable in that host chair. But I’d be perfectly happy with Klepper. Hard no from me on Ronnie Chang though. He’s an alright in small doses kinda guy.
I had to look up their names, yeah, Desi. I’d rank them as Klepper, Michael Kosta, then Desi as far as hosting. Ronny Chieng needs more air time, though.
Also, if Al Franken and Samantha Bee are interested - I’d love to see more of them. Honestly, the show needs to expand its cinematic universe and maybe have several spinoffs and give all of these talents more time.
For me it’s Klepper then Roy Wood Jr.
I like his “for the culture” segments for sure. I don’t remember much from his guest hosting stint. Honestly, I’d take just having the show back on with nearly any of the previous hosts, but please for the love of Zeus don’t give that host chair to Leslie Jones. I wish I found her even half as funny as she finds herself. Maybe she’s a comedian’s comedian or something, I just don’t get it, though.
Don’t sugarcoat it. Noah was pure garbage on the show. Makes me want to avoid anything he does like the plague.
Listened to the first half of his show via podcast for a while, mostly around the 2020 election and afterwards.
Just never hit with me. He would have some good takes, but it seemed like he was trying really hard to do Jon’s shtick, and it just fell flat. Feel the same about his stand up.
I hope he continues doing something with current event commentary. Hope he finds his niche.
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.
I second your opinion.
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.
trevor noah wasn’t bad; he just was dealt a bad hand through covid and he much preferred doing stand up than hosting gigs
He might of have been
My eyes! It burns!
That grammatical abomination is enough to invalidate your entire point.
Calling a typo a “grammatical abomination” is certainly one way to show everyone that you’re a very smart and special individual. I personally think everyone should take you super duper seriously.
You’re defending on a claim of intent, when all we have is observation and trending to go on.
How are we supposed to live up to the omniscient standard you set for us?
Can people not just proof-read their shit as if they were grown-ass adults with two brain cells to rub together? What explains the absolute inability to go back and correct mistakes, and should we magically know it’s not just apathy and disrespect?
Your brain just kind of edits those mistakes out even if you do proofread. I’m sure you’ve seen examples like this before:
Being super harsh about it is really odd.
He’s not being super harsh, he’s begging for validation. He actually believes those pointless sentences convey his obvious intelligence.
I wish I was joking.
The fuck?
Seconded. Take that shit back to reddit.
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.
While he is enlightened, he ain’t no centrist.
“Rally for sanity” was such a timely thing too, the naivety of appealing to people’s reason is a lot more obvious now.
I got it confused with the Reason Rally at first, it’s a pretty hilarious lineup in today’s context, but another thing from that time in US politics.
Well said… Its the only rally I ever been to, and i left there with a shred of hope that has long since evaporated. Denver was also a blast.
That was a fun day in DC, I’d do it again in an instant
JS isn’t much of a centrist
The “rally for sanity” was not centrist. It was a direct attack on the right wing media ecosystem
Daddy’s Home!
OH HAPPY DAY!!!
Oh hell yes.
Put Michelle Wolf on all the time you cowards!
Is there any way to stream TDS? No way I’m getting cable for 1 show
They upload almost all the show in segments on YouTube a few hours later, though I don’t know if that’s geolocked in the US.
If it is just get a VPN and set it to Spain or something.
geolocked in the US
Yep; can confirm.
VPN
Bah.
Paramount+ might have it, as Comedy Central falls under their network.
Yep it’s on Paramount+
Full episodes stream for free on cc.com
If you don’t care about visuals, the podcast is free and is just the audio from the show.
i watch it on paramount+ every day after
Big fan of Stewart! So excited for this.
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.
They did an expose of him?
Haha, meant to say exposé
Oh, my question was less about the term itself, but the background and what happened in relation to Hasan. I ended up searching for it and found it.
I liked his own show’s format, I don’t know if he’d be a great replacement for Jon/Noah. I really wish all this talent was given their own shows and given time to let them grow. The Jon Stewart Daily Show Cinematic Universe, if you will. You might say Colbert and Oliver are part of it, just on other networks. But Comedy Central should give Klepper, Minhaj, Bee, Roy Wood Jr., etc., their own shows (again, in some cases) and let them go, even if they are not raging successes at the very outset. Maybe even do crossover shows, etc…does that mean Comedy Central needs maybe to spin off an entire channel for fake news shows? Yes.
Call it faux news, then spend about 10 minutes talking about it before getting sued
the hero we needed
and wanted! Sometimes life can be good
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.
Can he do it for another 16 years?
