Full Coverage: Jon Stewartâs legacy and the future of âThe Daily Showâ
Jon Stewart shocked fans by announcing he would be leaving his job as host of âThe Daily Show,â a position heâs held since 1999. Explore the stories weâve written about his decision, his late-night satire and his forays beyond television.
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Jon Stewart said his final âDaily Showâ adios on Thursday with a near-record audience.
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Itâs not lost on Trevor Noah that he has a big seat to fill as he prepares to take the helm of Comedy Centralâs âDaily Showâ in September.
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When Jon Stewart made his debut as host of âThe Daily Showâ in January 1999, the idea that the comedian then best known for a short-lived syndicated talk show and supporting parts in forgettable movies would one day have the ear of the president would have seemed like, well, a joke.
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Though heâs best known for skewering politicians and the news media, departing âDaily Showâ host Jon Stewart has long applied his brand of skeptical humor to the world of pop culture.
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Thursday was a big night for political culture, what with the first Republican debate on Fox News and the last âDaily Show With Jon Stewartâ on Comedy Central.
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Jon Stewart may be retiring from nightly TV, but heâs still lobbing hand grenades at Fox News.
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Jon Stewart is a much shorter and more evidently nervous version of Craig Kilborn, which is to say heâs hardly Craig Kilborn at all.
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Yes, there were a few laughs between President Obama and Jon Stewart on Tuesday during a taping of âThe Daily Show.â
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Need a few unscheduled moments of zen before Jon Stewart exits âThe Daily Showâ in August?
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Trevor Noah will make his debut as host of âThe Daily Showâ on Sept. 28, Comedy Central announced Thursday.
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What was Comedy Central thinking?
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Comedy Central is backing up its new âDaily Showâ host, Trevor Noah, after his social media history came back to haunt him.
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Trevor Noah, a 31-year-old comedian who has been a contributor to Comedy Centralâs âThe Daily Show,â will be the programâs new host when current host Jon Stewart leaves later this year, the network announced Monday.
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On Tuesday, Jon Stewart dropped the bomb on his audience: Heâs leaving âThe Daily Showâ sometime this year.
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The Timesâ Christy Khoshaba takes a look at 7 jobs for Jon Stewart after âDaily Show,â according to Twitter.
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With Jon Stewart leaving his post on âThe Daily Show,â the joke may be on Comedy Central.
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On âThe Daily Show,â Jon Stewart can make any celebrity promotional appearance fun with his laid-back shoot-the-bull style.
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During his announcement Tuesday night that he was planning to leave âThe Daily Showâ sometime this year, Jon Stewart said âI donât have any specific plansâ for a post-âDaily Showâ life other than getting dinner on a school night with his family.
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At the end of Tuesday nightâs âThe Daily Show,â with his live audience watching agape and tape-delayed TV viewers expecting it but equally agape, Jon Stewart said heâd be calling it quits later this year.
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On Tuesday, Jon Stewart shocked fans by announcing he would be leaving his job as host of âThe Daily Show,â a position heâs held since 1999.
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Jon Stewart plans to step aside as host of Comedy Centralâs âThe Daily Showâ later this year, ending a 16-year run that changed the way Americans view the news.
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It seems like everybody in media, from the cable news chatterers to the morning radio crews is talking about Brian Williams and the controversy that has erupted around an erroneous story Williams has been delivering about his time reporting in Iraq in 2003.
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To the untrained ear, Sarah Palinâs speeches can often sound like a garbled word salad of slogans and buzz words stitched together in the outline of a coherent thought.
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Mike Huckabee made his ninth appearance on âThe Daily Showâ on Monday night, and much like his other appearances, he and host Jon Stewart had a lively disagreement of ideas.
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On Mondayâs âDaily Show,â Jon Stewart had just one thing to say about the lack of high-level American officials at the giant unity rally held in Paris on Sunday: âJe suis to be kidding me.â
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Jon Stewart has a message for Fox News Channel: I tell jokes for a living, so stop using me to help prove your talking points.
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It was easy for Maziar Bahari and Jon Stewart to laugh now.
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Sometimes a news story is so ridiculous that Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert canât help but lead off with it on âThe Daily Showâ and âThe Colbert Report.â
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Jon Stewartâs favorite sparring partner, Bill OâReilly, was a guest on âThe Daily Showâ on Wednesday and it didnât take long for a debate to happen.
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Anyone watching the news lately can be forgiven for assuming that everyone is going to be dead in a few weeks.
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Ben Affleck had a bit of an ax to grind with Jon Stewart when he stopped by âThe Daily Showâ on Tuesday.
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Jon Stewart introduced the segment on the Washington Redskins name-change controversy on âThe Daily Showâ on Thursday with an unusual disclaimer.
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Jon Stewartâs writing and directing debut was the feel-good film of the Telluride Film Festival. Now itâs headed to the Toronto film fest on a wave of good will.
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Jon Stewartâs âRosewaterâ is about a deathly serious subject -- the Iranian governmentâs 2009 imprisonment of Newsweek journalist Maziar Bahari.
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The large New York City rap collective Wu-Tang Clan has reunited to put out a new album, âA Better Tomorrow,â to celebrate the groupâs 20th anniversary.
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Jon Stewart gave Hillary Rodham Clinton all of a minute during her âDaily Showâ appearance on Tuesday to discuss her new book, âHard Choices,â before getting down to the real business at hand.
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Texasâ GOP recently adopted a platform that included, among other things, an endorsement of a controversial therapy that purports to âfixâ gay people, known as gay conversion therapy.
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Whenever âThe Daily Showâ comes back from a break, thereâs always a lot of playing catch-up on the biggest stories that happened while the show was gone.
