fidodoJon Stewart returns to ‘The Daily Show’ for 2024 election
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Sentient LoomPutting the comedy back in Comedy Central!
God, that has to be depressing for him. He did so much to set that show up for success, but he's now coming back in to put out fires and try to get it working again.
He thought he was retiring and moving to doing good work. AppleTV fucked him on editorial control and his baby TDS couldn't hold itself up on its own.
Meanwhile his protegee is winning Emmy after Emmy with one of the best programs out there.
And worse, coming back in for the 2024 election. The joke people were telling when he left is that leaving right as Trump was coming into power was 'such a waste' of comedy potential. And his response was, pretty frankly, that it was an awful thing he didn't want to see. Now he's coming right back into it.
I really hope he's able to come back, get it back in shape, and then find a strong successor and go back to doing the projects he really wants to be doing. If anyone can, it's Stewart, I suppose. I'll give it a watch with him back in the helm, which is more than I can say of most of the rest of it since he left.
The Daily Show just won an Emmy this year as well. Pretty much because John Oliver got put into a different category. Last Week Tonight won the Emmy for talk series the last 7 years.
I hear you, and maybe I am too critical. It never had the love for me post Stewart though, and I watched it pretty much every day for many years. Including the entire Oliver stretch. I dropped it pretty early during Noah because it just didn't catch me at all, and in spite of several tries I never was into it again. Even Al Fraken's stint didn't capture me. Bee was great though.
I think this may speak more to the state of talk series than anything else -- most of them are just so bad these days. ...how on god's green earth is Bill Maher still consistently one of the top-streamed shows on HBO I will never understand.
GhostalmediaI’d be excited if I were him. He’s gets a chance to be a proper thorn in Trump’s ass. He didn’t do that in 2016. He announced his retirement before Trump came down that escalator
MimicJarI strongly disagree that he is coming back to put out fires and try and get it working again.
Trevor Noah was no Jon Stewart, but he did an excellent job. They’ve put an excellent team in place at The Daily Show. Look at the ease of the guest hosts. They show runs really well behind the scenes and it just won an Emmy.
I think finding a new host is still important. I’m surprised the show didn’t go to one of the current correspondents like Roy Wood Jr or Desi Lydic. (Or Jordan Klepper, but I really like him in the field).
Stewart is the king, without question, but the show is in good shape.
PoggervaniaGlad to see Jon back again, even if it’s only for Mondays. I honestly think we need his voice again in the political discourse - it’s something that has been missing in recent years. He’s probably the closest analogue I could think of for a “modern age” George Carlin, and I think we could use some of that in today’s world.