Guest Jon Stewart on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” on June 17, 2019.
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Jon Stewart is returning to “The Daily Show” — but only on Mondays.
The comic helmed the Comedy Central speak present between 1999 and 2015, earlier than passing the torch to South African comic Trevor Noah. Noah departed the present in late 2022, and this system has cycled via a slew of visitor hosts over the previous yr, but by no means settled on a single substitute.
Stewart will function “The Daily Show” host on Mondays beginning Feb. 12, and seem no less than via the 2024 election cycle. The remainder of the week will function a rotating forged of present regulars.
Stewart’s return comes as Paramount, Comedy Central’s proprietor, seeks to hold the signature collection afloat on the community, particularly throughout an election yr, as Stewart’s political commentary has usually thrived prior to now.
The economics of late-night TV have weakened lately, as advertisers flee the linear area. Audiences, too, have gravitated towards streaming video and sometimes watch these applications on-line through YouTube the day after they run.
“Jon Stewart is the voice of our era, and we’re honored to have him return to Comedy Central’s ‘The Daily Show’ to assist us all make sense of the madness and division roiling the nation as we enter the election season,” Chris McCarthy, president and CEO of Showtime and MTV Entertainment Studios, stated in a press release Wednesday. “In our age of staggering hypocrisy and performative politics, Jon is the right individual to puncture the empty rhetoric and supply much-needed readability together with his good wit.”
Since his 2015 exit from “The Daily Show,” Stewart has stored busy as the manager producer of CBS’ “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” and weekly spots on Apple’s streaming service through his present “The Problem with Jon Stewart,” which was lately canceled.
Stewart can also be an avid philanthropist and has lobbied for health-care advantages for veterans and 9/11 first responders.
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