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submitted 10 months ago by gregorum@lemm.ee to c/news@lemmy.world

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.

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[-] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 215 points 10 months ago

You son of a bitch, I'm in.

[-] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 169 points 10 months ago

A BRILLIANT LIGHT SUDDENLY BURNS IN THE DARKNESS.

HE HAS RISEN

[-] lennybird@lemmy.world 86 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I'll never not believe that if Jon was running the Daily Show for the 2016 election season, Trump wouldn't have been elected.

Either way, Zelenskyy proved what a satirical comedian with good character can do on the world stage. Wish Jon would just run for office already...

Side note: Mehdi Hasan has left MSNBC.... Apart from Jon, I can think of nobody else more qualified to run the Daily Show.

[-] tacosplease@lemmy.world 25 points 10 months ago

I've thought the same thing ever since that dipshit got elected president in 2016.

Stewart's presence in the media was real and impactful. Really wish he had stayed a few more years.

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[-] SnotFlickerman 115 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Finally, some good news.

Out of a lot of jackasses in the world, Jon Stewart continues to be clear-headed unmitigated good.


Yes, that means I have forgiven him for using trans people as the butt of his jokes for a long time, and I'm hoping he's had enough growth to understand why those were bad. Also, to be fair, it's been quite a while since he has done a joke like that. And if he turns on a dime and makes some uncouth remarks about trans folks, he'll be in shit-city with me, and I'll take back the good things I said about him. Pretty sure he won't tho.

[-] snooggums@kbin.social 89 points 10 months ago

https://www.thedailybeast.com/jon-stewart-atones-for-his-own-shitty-anti-trans-jokes

He is self aware and takes responsibility, which I think is the best thing we can expect from just about anyone.

[-] SnotFlickerman 13 points 10 months ago

I did link that at the end, after a quick Google. I don't have AppleTV and never saw The Problem with Jon Stewart, so I was unaware of this, but the fact that he defended Chappelle at first was a bad look and to my knowledge he hasn't amended his statement on Chappelle's defense.

[-] snooggums@kbin.social 31 points 10 months ago

Stewart didn't defend Chapelle, Stewart opposed censorship and penalties with one reason being Stewart being called antisemitic for criticizing how Israel treats Palestinians. Note this is from 2022 and I'm pretty sure Stewart still thinks Israel's actions are terrible.

https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/11/jon-stewart-defends-dave-chappelle-controversial-snl-monologue

During his appearance on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert on Tuesday, Stewart pushed back on the belief that Chappelle “normalized antisemitism” with his 15-minute commentary that involved Kanye West’s and Kyrie Irving’s recent scandals. “I don’t know if you’ve been on comment sections on most news articles, but it’s pretty fucking normal. As you know, it’s incredibly normal,” Stewart began. “But the one thing I will say is, I don’t believe that censorship and penalties are the way to end antisemitism or to not gain understanding. I don’t believe in that, and I think it’s the wrong way for us to approach it.”

Stewart, who was present at the Los Angeles comedy event where Chappelle was attacked onstage after his set in May, agreed with the comic that “it shouldn’t be this hard to talk about things,” adding, “I’m called antisemitic because I’m against Israel’s treatment of Palestinians. I’m called other things from other people based on other opinions that I have…Whether it be comedy or discussion or anything else, if we don’t have the wherewithal to meet each other with what’s reality, then how do we move forward?… If we all just shut it down, then we retreat to our little corners of misinformation and it metastasizes. And the whole point of all this is to not let it metastasize and to get it out in the air and talk about it.”

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[-] ExLisper@linux.community 66 points 10 months ago

Jon is how I got sucked into US politics all those years ago. He was amazing. Look at me now, knowing things about stuff and all. Thanks Jon!

[-] Hobbes@startrek.website 63 points 10 months ago
[-] Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 29 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Does Jon even want the job? It sucks. You have to deal with so many roadblocks. You get blamed for everything. You pitch ideas and make demands and some shithead dept will block you and some company throws billions to turn the public against you.

Unless he finds loopholes like Trump and load it up with toadies willing to bow to the king, which I doubt Stewart wants to abuse because he has ethics, it'll be hard to get much of the government on his side.

Even basic shit like feeding school kids is a fucking political theater by assholes.

[-] Traegert@lemm.ee 31 points 10 months ago

He doesn't want the job. That's kinda the point. We could use someone who doesn't WANT the job but does it anyway.

[-] tocopherol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 10 months ago

The only people who should be allowed to hold power are people who don't want it.

[-] ikidd@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago

Make it like jury duty. You get 4 years in the hotseat then it's on to something else. Imagine the diversity of experience, good and bad. You can't lead a committee that has anything to do with your civilian career.

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[-] Brokkr@lemmy.world 61 points 10 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.

[-] derf82@lemmy.world 18 points 10 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.

[-] theherk@lemmy.world 17 points 10 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.

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[-] airportline@lemmy.ml 52 points 10 months ago

Finally some good fucking news

[-] assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world 49 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Well Jon Stewart's coming back, so we've got that going for us at least!

[-] Cyberflunk@lemmy.world 17 points 10 months ago

Doing more for America than the government was.

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[-] FrankTheHealer@lemmy.world 40 points 10 months ago

Excellent. Keep fighting the good fight Jon.

[-] takeda@lemmy.world 35 points 10 months ago

The only worthy host of the show. He was able to make a comedy show compete with shows on so-called news channels.

I wonder why it looks like he was the last person considered for the show, is it because he cared about issues that he talked about and made young people care?

[-] chaogomu@kbin.social 47 points 10 months ago

He was doing his own thing until Apple killed his show over fears that he would talk about China.

[-] helenslunch@feddit.nl 26 points 10 months ago

I feel like this needs added context. He was planning a show to expose more shitfuckery from China. Apple put the kibosh on it and Stewart walked away.

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[-] gregorum@lemm.ee 15 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

It’s not quite that simple. Stewart wanted to do a show critical of China, Apple said, no, and Stewart walked. Since this was during the negotiations for his next season of his show, they mutually agreed not to renew for the next season.

Yes, this is shitty of Apple to put a limit on him like this, but it wasn’t so hostile as it might seem. 

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[-] ericisshort@lemmy.world 15 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

He was the last person considered because 1) he already hosted for 16 years and quit so they probably assumed he didn’t want to go back to it, and 2) when they started considering people, Stewart was under contract with a competing show on AppleTV+ (The Problem w/ Jon Stewart), but that show was recently cancelled. Also, The Problem only airs once a week, so imagine Stewart told CC that he’d only come back to do one show weekly rather than the four that he used to do.

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[-] IronpigsWizard@lemmy.world 31 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I'm just a random person in the world, so my opinion doesn't mean much in the grand scheme of things.....but I have never found Trevor Noah even slightly funny my entire life.

I feel bad saying that, because he seems like a genuine, sincere person from what I have read and watched, but his delivery on the Daily Show just comes across as bland/flat to me, I stopped watching maybe 1 year into his tenure.

[-] HuntressHimbo@lemm.ee 22 points 10 months ago

Maybe not funny all the time, but if you go on YouTube the daily show channel used to post between the scenes cuts of Trevor. I also used to dislike his delivery, but I found him way more interesting and engrossing in the more off-the-cuff style. I am convinced it was the writers or producers who were dropping the ball.

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[-] eerongal@ttrpg.network 21 points 10 months ago

As someone with no special insight into the internal workings, and who didnt watch trevor noah's DS too much, or know much about noah himself, i've honestly been pretty convinced that the problems with TN DS doesn't really have anything to do with trevor specifically, but i'm reasonably sure that comedy central took jon stewart leaving as an opportunity to "tame" the writing on the show.

I feel like comedy central wanted to pull the show back from leaning too far left to appeal to a wider audience.

What i mean by that, is where jon stewart might tear into a political figure for the way they stand on some particular issue he disagrees with, trevor's daily show would like...make fun of their hair/clothes, or some other "safe" joke that doesn't get too political.

And noah, unfairly, probably takes all the blame for this, even though i'm quite sure this is on the studio heads and was outside his control.

[-] radiosimian@lemmy.world 15 points 10 months ago

As a non-US person, I want to point out that US politics has shifted so far to the right that centrists in any other country would look like far left to you.

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[-] gregorum@lemm.ee 17 points 10 months ago

His stand-up is actually really great. I just never really liked him all that much on TDS.

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[-] Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 16 points 10 months ago

I absolutely turned around on Noah. His standup is fantastic.

His daily show era is still kinda bland. His "Outsider looking into America" perspective didn't really fit what Stewart built up.

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[-] generalpotato@lemmy.world 23 points 10 months ago

Consequential election + Stewart… America’s back baby!!

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[-] Jordan117@lemmy.world 22 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Stewart is great, but I wonder if any of the original wiring staff is returning as well. He didn't carry the original show alone, and even the opening monologue will hit different if there's a new team behind it.

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[-] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 16 points 10 months ago

After scuttling a months-long search for a new host

Incompetent searchers, they already had Roy Wood Jr's phone number.

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[-] DefiantBidet@lemmy.world 15 points 10 months ago

I'm the asshole who liked the og show and host Killborn. I didn't watch it initially when Stewart took over. It was a different show... Man what an idiot I was.... While I liked the og version Stewart made it so much better. Glad to see him back in some form.

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[-] Tetractys@lemmy.world 15 points 10 months ago

Can you americans explain what this means to everyone else in the world? Seems like a big deal to some people...

[-] mrmanager@lemmy.today 21 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

He has a great mix of humor and serious discussions about important topics. He calls out guests for avoiding answering difficult questions etc.

I cant even express it very well, but the man is a legend. One of a kind.

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[-] scaredoftrumpwinning@lemmy.world 18 points 10 months ago

He's willing to ask the questions other networks are to afraid to ask. He has destroyed careers because of it look up jon Stewart and hard ball. We do have NPR and MSNBC but they still won't ask the hard questions or confront the hosts. I've heard that only a couple of times on NPR but only lately. Plus Jon can taunt the people to afraid to come on unlike a professional news orgs.

When he got together with Colbert and did the Colbert report and tricked the entire GOP that was just icing on the cake.

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[-] FoxBJK@midwest.social 17 points 10 months ago

In addition to what the others have said, Jon was a strong advocate for the 9/11 First Responders. Being a New Yorker himself, he took it extremely personally when Congress (controlled by, well go ahead and guess) was dragging their feet on giving these guys the health benefits they needed.

His testimony before Congress was fantastic, and ultimately he succeeded

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[-] nicetriangle@kbin.social 13 points 10 months ago

I am so here for this

[-] ConstableJelly@kbin.social 12 points 10 months ago

They've got a really talented bench of people, I'm surprised this has gone on so long (though I am far from a regular viewer). My vote would have gone to Jordan Klepper, who I think has both the intelligence and sincere anger that made Jon Stewart the cultural force he was on the show. My theory is that the execs saw him as too much of a risk after his previous (unfortunately) failed solo outings.

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