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.

  • oxjoxEnglish
    53·
    8 months ago

    It’s a little surprising that he’s never ventured into his own platform. At this point, Comedy Central (as well as they’ve been for his sense of political humor thus far) seems a bit of a downgrade for Stewart. Meanwhile, you’ve got the far right conspiracists getting banned from mainstream social media and forced to establish their own “free speech” platforms. Isn’t Jon, in some sense, just the far(ther) left mirror-image version of Jones?

    I really enjoyed his stint at Apple (more akin to Last Week Tonight + VOX) and would have liked him to continue more down that path of investigative reporting and interviews. I just don’t know if he’ll have the freedom he wants / deserves on platform owned by Paramount.

    Jon deserves something bigger than a cable comedy network. He deserves a ton of money to invest in passionate journalists and writers. At least something as big, if not bigger, than Oliver gets. I don’t know… I just feel like we haven’t yet seen Jon as his ultimate form. Maybe our projections of what we all want from him are too grand for his own aspirations.

    • Serinus@lemmy.world
      62·
      8 months ago

      left mirror-image version of Jones?

      No. That does a disservice to how fucking crazy the right is now.

      Maybe try the tankies from Hexbear if you want a mirror.

      • oxjoxEnglish
        2·
        8 months ago

        how fucking crazy the right is now.

        Yes. The mirror image of ‘fucking crazy’ is reasonably sane. Or are you suggesting Stewart isn’t as equally sane as the right is crazy?

        • ashenblood@sh.itjust.works
          11·
          8 months ago

          The mirror image of fucking crazy is just crazy in the opposite direction. Mirrors flip the image.

          Also Serinus is dead-on, Jon Stewart isn’t far-left at all. Even if he were, it’d be unfair to make any type of comparison to Alex Jones, who goes well beyond far-right politics into mental illness and insanity.

    • 31337@sh.itjust.works
      41·
      8 months ago

      I don’t think Jon is far-left. Maybe a progressive liberal. AFAIK, he’s not even a SocDem, much less a DemSoc. Alex Jones is just a grifter conspiracy theorist. The likes of Matt Walsh and Michael Knowles are full-on fascists, and I’d think the mirror of that would be an anarcho-socialist or communist.

      • oxjoxEnglish
        1·
        8 months ago

        Maybe I don’t know the granular definitions of these philosophies. Far-left, progressive liberal, democratic socialist are all the same to me. Or at least all how I would describe my own ideas in general conversation. I’m aware there may be subtle differences but, generally for the point of this not political science 101 conversation about someone who isn’t here to represent themselves, I think we can forgo the nit picks.