Jon Stewart Says ‘Daily Show’ Return Was Prompted by Wanting to Have a “Place to Unload Thoughts” Ahead of 2024 Election
Jon Stewart Says ‘Daily Show’ Return Was Prompted by Wanting to Have a “Place to Unload Thoughts” Ahead of 2024 Election
Stewart also weighed in on the changing media landscape and his Apple TV exit before returning to host, on Monday nights, the Comedy Central late night show.
I'm here for "Jon Stewart's Daily Political Therapy Hour"
It's just a half hour of screaming, followed by a half hour of crying
But that’s already every Monday, I don’t understand
Make him President you foolish yanks
I like him too much to do that to him.
No thanks. We don’t need more celebs as president.
It takes a lot more then just being a personality on TV to be a good president.
It's almost like a medieval peasant mentality, still regarding the presidency as some sort of faux-monarchy, with a certain aura, missing the point that an executive branch is not just a president who can work the cameras and microphones, that is just the tip of the iceberg, as there are a myriad employees chosen by the president and his top appointees.
There's an old chinese curse - "May your children live in interesting times", and there is a saying that the best leaders are practically invisible, as the whole group works towards a common goal.
We seem to always be living through interesting times, gravitating towards interesting characters, when what we really should want are boring government nerds who operate on reason and science, with no need nor inclination to make a loud splash.Being a celebrity shouldn't be disqualifying. Trump was a dumb, loud criminal before being president and stayed a dumb, loud crimnal as president.
Stewart is in one of the most intelligent, articulate, charismatic and compassionate people in the public sphere and one can only hope he would be such as president. If he wanted to run, which he doesn't.
He's the one we need, but not the one we deserve.
He's a great commentator and humorist... but he'd make a fucking awful president.
He holds a lot of opinions I agree with (and some I don't), but that doesn't mean he'd somehow be able to steer the American political system in a way that would benefit most Americans. He'd mostly be yet another demagogue, just for the left instead of the right.
I like that he's doing this on Monday morning. It will be interesting to see how much he can influence the news cycle in that position.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Jon Stewart is opening up about his highly anticipated return as host of Comedy Central’s The Daily Show, nearly nine years after leaving the nightly gig.
Though he has thoughts, Stewart — joining hosts Gayle King, Tony Dokoupil and Nate Burleson for an in-studio interview — was modest about the influence that his version of the show could have on real-world events.
Just weeks after the 2016 presidential election, Stewart had a similar approach speaking at an event in New York, quickly rejecting arguments put forth online that his version of The Daily Show could have influenced the results.
Ahead of his Monday return, Stewart also spoke with The Daily Show’s Ears Edition podcast about why he wanted to come back now.
“Generally, I will be doing it with choreographed dance moves,” Stewart joked of how that shift would affect his approach, before turning serious and arguing that quality content will find an audience.
The rest of the week, the series will be hosted by a rotating team of the show’s correspondents, who include Jordan Klepper, Desi Lydic, Ronny Chieng, Michael Kosta and Dulcé Sloan.
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This will definitely be good.
I really enjoyed the clips of him on the apple show.
please down vote me but sadly his both sides suck comedy style, which is fine for a comedy show I am a big fan but at the time younger people used it as a primary news source and caused a lot of hopelessness in that demographic and gave Trump a lot of free publicity over other RNC candidates.
so I do put a small amount of blame for Trump on him. I mean the DNC is the most to blame by putting up a garbage candidate and campaign thinking they were effectively running unopposed.
I hope we don't have another repeat with John back in that chair. please know I think he is a great person done so much good for vets and 9/11 rescue personnel out of that chair.
He doesn't have a "both sides suck comedy style" he has always called out bullshit where he sees it. A lot of the show was fact checking Fox News because that's where most of the bullshit is. He also left the show in 2015 so he didn't host the show during the election.
I agree with you I think we are saying the same thing but Jon didn't highlight the threat that Trump was and the election cycle for primary candidates was in 2015. I was there I remember Jon along with everyone else in the media. I want to be clear I don't think Jon went out of his way to do this he was just commenting on the media landscape at the time but he also got distracted by the clown show like everyone else I mean why wouldn't he trumps bullshit was a comedy gold.
I think if he could do it all over again he would have sounded the alarm bells. But it also sucks that journalism got so bad at that and even worse today that it really feels that we had to get our news from comedians in the first place because all the other journalists are covering the next extreme tweat or what people are posting on social media as news. with all their dumb touch screens gimmicks.
You do realize the Jon quit in 2015?
I will watch Jon Stewart's Daily Show... IF.
The bare minimum paperwork, in 50 states, is filed for general election.
Jon Stewart (I as in I am definitely left leaning), write in candidate for President of the United States.
If he cant cash that check, I am not particularly interested in hearing his rhetoric. At this point.
What on earth are you talking about?
This is possibly the dumbest thing I have read today.
So the only way you're willing to listen to discourse is if the one speaking is a candidate for president? That's absurd yet it's kind of what you wrote.
To be honest, I was saying this largely because I was afraid that Jon was returning to shill for Biden and advance the "Union busting, rapidly expanding American poverty, global war, and genocide are okay as long as a Democrat is doing it" stance the Democrats have developed.
Well, I have seen a couple clips from his return, and that is not the case. I guess I got jaded in his absence. I should have known that Jon is better than that.
That said, I desperately want ANYONE other than Trump or Biden to take office next term.
Jon has the name recognition, he has the knowledge, and he has the passion.
My short list so far as been Bernie or Ro Khanna.
Since Jon wanted a voice in politics again, I wanted to add him to the short list of alternatives so he can put his money where his mouth is.
Back to the Future II already became reality when Trump got elected. Why cant Man of the Year become reality too?