Jon Stewart was in tears on Monday night while mourning his dog.
12.02.2024 - 16:35 / deadline.com
Ahead of his return to The Daily Show tonight, Jon Stewart has revealed why he’s getting back behind his old desk.
Stewart, who will host Monday nights on Comedy Central, said he “very much wanted to have some place to unload thoughts as we get into this election season”.
“Who better to comment on this election than someone who truly understands two aging men past their prime?,” he joked.
Speaking on CBS Mornings, Stewart said he hopes to have a “catharsis” and a “way to comment on things and a way to express them that hopefully people will enjoy”.
“But as far as influence… just about everything I had wanted to happen over the 16 years that I was at The Daily Show did not happen, if you were hoping for influence.”
Stewart, who will be joined by The Daily Show’s correspondents including Desi Lydic, Michael Kosta and Ronny Chieng as well as Jordan Klepper hosting the rest of the week, touched on his Apple TV show, The Problem with Jon Stewart, which was canceled by the streamer.
“I thought I was going to do it over at — they call it Apple TV+. It’s a television enclave, very small. It’s like living in Malibu. They decided, they felt that they didn’t want me to say things that might get me in trouble.”
Stewart also praised the production team of The Daily Show, much of which is the same as it was when he left.
“The team are unbelievable. Jen Flanz runs a ridiculous ship, she knows what she’s doing in a way that is really impressive to watch and all of the writing staff and producers, it’s a building filled with incredibly talented people.”
Starting tonight, @jonstewart is back at @TheDailyShow anchor desk on Mondays through the 2024 election cycle.
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Jon Stewart was in tears on Monday night while mourning his dog.
The Daily Show” as he said that his family’s dog Dipper died.The comedian, 61, revealed that the three-legged pup passed away Sunday.“He was ready. He was tired, but I wasn’t,” he said.“And the family, we were all together,” he went on.
Jon Stewart broke down in tears during The Daily Show last night, as he announced that his dog Dipper had died the day before.The host spoke to the camera and the live audience about his beloved brindle pitbull, saying, “In a world of good boys, he was the best”.“I thought I’d get further,” he said as his voice cracked near the beginning of the segment. He recounted the moment that his children went to an animal shelter to raise money and met the one-year-old Dipper, who had lost a leg after a road accident.Stewart went on to say that the dog used to accompany him to tapings of The Daily Show, adding: “We’d come to tape this show, and Dipper would wait for me to be done.
Things got emotional for Jon Stewart three episodes into his return to The Daily Show. The political commentator announced that his dog Dipper had died the night before.
Zack Sharf Digital News Director Is television dying? It’s a claim Jon Stewart pushed back on during his return to Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show.” Taking pre-show questions from the audience, Stewart was confronted with one viewer who asked about TV in the age of social media. “What do you think about young people getting all of their information and entertainment from social media?” the audience member asked before outright claiming: “TV is dying!” “Is that true?” Stewart answered back. “You still watch TV but you just watch it on your computer [or phone].You understand that’s still TV? You’re just watching it on a different delivery service.” “It’s like, heroin is heroin whether you snort it or shoot it,” Stewart continued.
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Donald Trump and Joe Biden during his return to The Daily Show last night (February 12).Both the president and former president came in for rough treatment over the 2024 presidential race.Taking aim at Biden over Robert Hur’s recent report which described the US President as an “elderly man with a poor memory” and his subsequent press conference, Stewart said: “So Joe Biden had a big press conference to dispel the notion that he may have lost a step and, politically speaking, may have lost three to four steps…”He also showed clips of Trump and the former president’s family being deposed and similarly not being able to recall some basic facts.Stewart went on to say: “These two candidates, they are both similarly challenged. And it is not crazy to think that the oldest people in the history of the country to ever run for president might have some of these challenges … We’re not suggesting neither man is vibrant, productive or even capable.“But they’re both stretching the limits of being able to handle the toughest job in the world.
Alison Herman TV Critic The parallels were impossible to ignore, so Jon Stewart decided not to ignore them. Both major American political parties have been unable to find new candidates to lead their presidential tickets, leading to a rematch in the 2024 election between Donald Trump and Joe Biden. And in a much lower-stakes effort to find a leader for a legacy institution, Comedy Central has yet to decide on a new course for “The Daily Show” following the departure of Trevor Noah, despite months of public tryouts from guest hosts including Sarah Silverman, Roy Wood Jr., Desus Nice and more.
“Welcome to The Daily Show, my name is Jon Stewart.”
Anna Tingley If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Variety may receive an affiliate commission. Comedy Central‘s “The Daily Show” returns for its 29th season on Monday, Feb. 12, marking Jon Stewart’s first episode as the show’s new Monday night host.
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Brian Steinberg Senior TV Editor Can Mondays do for the TV business what Thursdays and Sundays once did? Some of the medium’s best-known personalities are trying to figure this question out. When Jon Stewart re-emerges Monday night as a one-night-a-week host of Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show,” he will join MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow and Jen Psaki in making bespoke Monday appearances for their network, part of what has become a low-key scheduling experiment that actually has high stakes: In a medium best known for offering viewers the same hosts in the same time slots five nights a week, can TV networks that thrive on news-and-talk programs generate new attention and advertising dollars by doling them out less frequently ? “Monday is really appealing,” says Stephanie Morales, vice president of media intelligence at Magna, the Interpublic Group media-research firm.