Jon Stewart will return to 'The Daily Show' as its Monday host and executive producer. Show correspondents will host other nights of the week

After scuttling a months-long search for a new host, the Paramount Global network said it had enlisted Jon Stewart, who presided over the late-night mainstay’s most popular era, to serve as its host on Monday nights throughout the 2024 election cycle and to run the program. He is expected to oversee the program through 2025. Various “Daily Show” correspondents will host the program Tuesday through Thursday nights, and Jen Flanz, the current executive producer, will continue her duties on the show.

  • Brokkr
    61•5 months ago

    Everyone says the darkest timeline started when Harambe was killed. I think it was when Stewart left the Daily Show.

    Maybe this will be able to get us back a little bit.

    • @theherk@lemmy.world
      15•5 months ago

      Or 9/11, JFK assassination, or MLK, maybe when Debbie Wasserman Schultz handed the DNC over to the Clinton campaign, maybe after the civil war when the traitors weren’t brought to justice, or when Gore won but didn’t take the seat. There are so many turning points.

    • @derf82@lemmy.worldEnglish
      13•5 months ago

      I often wonder if an impassioned Jon Stewart plea in 2016 might have motivated enough young Bernie supporters to make the difference in a few swing states.

      • Brokkr
        12•5 months ago

        He had been doing it for 16 years. I think he said he needed a break. He took one for a few years, then started a show on Apple TV which was recently ended by Apple.

      • @Windex007@lemmy.world
        2•5 months ago

        Nothing would have been easier than hosting during the 2016 campaign w/ Trump doing the writing for him.

        He could have had a show compromised of nothing but reading quotes verbatim, pausing only for nonverbal reactions