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.
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)