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Jon Stewart to return to The Daily Show through 2024 US election season

www.theguardian.com

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.

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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.
- 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.
  
  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.
  
  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.
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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Nice, will definitely check it out. Haven’t watched since he left really.
- 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.
  
  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.
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.
- "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.
  https://youtu.be/2sNWDfryyMk?si=_u_zlcNa6zVTj5kk
- The "rally for sanity" was not centrist. It was a direct attack on the right wing media ecosystem
- While he is enlightened, he ain't no centrist.
- JS isn't much of a centrist
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
- sunxdcc.com
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 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?
the hero we needed
- and wanted! Sometimes life can be good
This is the best summary I could come up with:
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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I wish he would run for President, even if it was just as an educational comedy bit. Jon Stewart is the president we need but don't deserve.

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