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Jon Stewart Returns to "The Daily Show" as Host and Executive Producer
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Jon Stewart is the Millennial Walter Cronkite.
this post was submitted on 24 Jan 2024
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I just wish he'd have gotten into politics.
But I cant blame him after the hit job Al Franken got for being a progressive outsider.
I don't. His talents would have been wasted on them. He can do a lot more with his fame outside of the restrictive nonsense that politics brings.
Al Franken had a conscience. When called on his mysoginy, he did the honorable thing and resigned. Sadly there are no more politicians like him.
You have zero idea what happened apparently....
Fuck yeah, man. He was the best
I've had major respect for him since he was on crossfire way back in the day. He took those guys to school and then beat them (verbally) like a rented mule. Crossfire went off the air shortly after his appearance. If you have never seen that episode do yourself a favor and go watch it.
And the painful thing is that all that dressdown, which should have ended careers, resulted in was to set Tucker Carlson on a path of becoming the face of the extreme right.
I really hope he changes his mind and runs for office at some point. I'd vote for him for president.
And shit. I just realized where this was posted. This isn't related to trek at all but why the fuck not.
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His face looks like he forgot how to drool.
Same. That clip is gold. Made tucker Carlson look like a total moron
You don't see him wearing a bowtie much anymore.
This is awesome! Love to have Jon Stewart back, and I also love to see the correspondents take over the host role more often.
Watching The Colbert Report and Daily Show in the 2000s was something I always looked forward to each night. It'll be nice to have Jon back, if only once a week.
"The Problem with Jon Stewart" should have a high school or college course structured around it--it was a great series.
you can't even get him to host it daily? at this point just shutter the show. there's plenty of people doing good lib/progressive political comedy (and way more doing it badly), but a legacy network like Comedy Central has nothing to offer them.
They should have given it to Adam Friedland.
I think that, with everybody else zigging, they should zag. Give it to Stavros and make it completely apolitical, just bring celebrities on to talk about their dicks.
So, back to its Kilborn roots?
How do we not have a Stavi emoji? God damn.
Well, anyway, I will see your Apolitical Stavros Dick Jokes With Celebrities show and raise you Bring Back Virgil.
nah. is bill o'reilly still alive? bring him back! papa bear hosting the daily show would be amazing. and bipartisan. what's not to love here?
He's been dead for a while
Edit: He's alive? What
It's kind of a shame that Taylor Tomlinson didn't get a shot at this instead of...whatever the terrible show she just started is.
@midnight was amazing...
I tried her knockoff show "after midnight" and it was terrible.
Lmao at the people down voting. Her new show is garbage, who the hell green lit this piece of shit colostomy bag of random segments brought together.
Fwiw:
Stewart, who spent 16 years at the show, the majority of them Emmy-winning, will be heavily involved as an executive producer on the other nights as well.
But yeah we'll see - they are offering him a ton of work that just isn't worth it, but if he is willing...
I doubt the "what if x on weed" guy has much to contribute in the way of material rather than star power but maybe idk
There was a time when I would have praised Stewart for getting out while the getting was good (ignoring his awful podcast), but it looks like he wants to go the way of Stephen Colbert instead. RIP in peace you god damn liberal.
Yay
Hell yes, I was never a fan of Trevor Noah personally.