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Jon Stewart was in tears on Monday night while mourning his dog.

Jon Stewart led Monday’s episode of The Daily Show with Donald Trump’s hush money trial and dinged news networks for how they cover it.

Michaela Zee Stephen Colbert is taking “The Late Show” on the road. The late-night program will broadcast live from Chicago’s Auditorium Theatre during this year’s Democratic National Convention, also taking place in Chicago, from Aug. 19-22 on the CBS Television Network.

Former President Donald Trump appeared to fall asleep during jury selection on the first day of his hush money trial in Manhattan on Monday — and Jon Stewart had a field day with it on his “Daily Show” episode later that night.“After years of anticipation, the first criminal trial of a former president has begun,” Stewart, 61, sarcastically began his rant on the trial, where Trump has pleaded not guilty to 34 counts of falsifying business records to conceal an alleged six figures worth of payments made to porn star Stormy Daniels to cover up an extramarital affair before the 2016 election.“And by all accounts, it is absolutely riveting,” Stewart added before cutting to a clip of CNN’s trial coverage, where Jake Tapper questioned journalist Maggie Haberman about her earlier report that Trump had been snoozing during jury selection.“Trump appears to be sleeping. His head keeps dropping down, and his mouth goes slack,” Haberman reported on Day 1 of the trial.Stewart interjected in a New York accent: “Hey, Jake, what part of head down, eyes closed, drool coming out of his mouth, do you not f – – king get over here?” in a segment earlier reported on by Mediaite.“He’s snoring.

Jon Stewart mocked Donald Trump on The Daily Show as the former POTUS campaigns and makes a run for the White House amid the hush money criminal trial.

Michaela Zee On the “The Daily Show,” Jon Stewart decided it was time for a “wellness check” on Gaza after the Israel-Hamas war reached the six-month mark Sunday. “As the war has grinded on, justice is beginning to seem more like cruelty,” “The Daily Show” host said on Monday night.

Jon Stewart called out Fox News on The Daily Show for their eclipse coverage with an immigration angle.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Jon Stewart made headlines in February when he appeared on “CBS Mornings” ahead of his return to hosting Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show” and said that Apple canceled his previous talk show, “The Problem With Jon Stewart,” because “they didn’t want me to say things that might get me in trouble.” On the April 1 episode of “The Daily Show,” Stewart went into greater detail about Apple’s concerns over the direction of his now-axed talk show and corresponding podcast. Stewart was interviewing Federal Trade Commission chair Lina Khan on “The Daily Show” and told her that he once pitched to have her as a guest on “The Problem” podcast.

Last month, the U.S. Justice Department and more than a dozen state attorneys general sued Apple, claiming that the tech giant has an illegal monopoly over the smartphone market and warning that Apple’s monopoly on smartphones could extend to other areas of the economy, including entertainment.

Jon Stewart started off The Daily Show by calling out news networks for their reaction to the video Donald Trump shared that showed an A.I. image of Joe Biden tied up.

After a brief break, Jon Stewart returned to The Daily Show and called out Shark Tank‘s Kevin O’Leary.

EXCLUSIVE: After 5+ years without a special, comedian Demetri Martin is poised to return with two new ones for Netflix, Deadline has learned. The first, Demetri Deconstructed, premieres globally on the platform on April 2nd. Check out a trailer above.

pic.twitter.com/pGceMRn26t— Josh Pieters (@joshua_pieters) March 14, 2024In a clip of Carlson’s interview with Manners, he introduces him by saying: “We’ve done our best to verify that your identity is what you say it is. You’re not a fake [Alexei] Navalny or doing a prank.” At the end of the interview, he said: “That was great, and it was really interesting, too.

Jake Lloyd‘s mom is finally giving an update on the former child actor’s life since Star Wars.

Jake Lloyd played Anakin Skywalker in 1999’s Star Wars: Episode 1 — The Phantom Menace and left the limelight shortly after the film’s release.

Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, is currently in hospital after suffering what his mother described as a “full-blown psychotic break” in March 2023.While the film has been celebrating its 25th anniversary recently, the now 35-year-old has been absent from the coverage and has largely remained out of the spotlight since the film was released.His mother Lisa gave an exclusive interview to Scripps News about her son’s life after Star Wars, revealing that he had been diagnosed with schizophrenia in his 20s, having first started experiencing symptoms while in high school.“Jake started having some trouble in high school,” Lisa said. “He started talking about ‘realities’. He didn’t know if he was in this reality, or a different reality.

Donald Trump’s supporters are more patriotic than liberals in New York and California, right?

Ceasefire pins among Oscar guests and nominees were numerous on this afternoon’s red carpet with Poor Things actor Ramy Youssef and Barbie “What Was I Made For?” songwriting team Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell donning them.

Jaden Thompson “What Was I Made For?” singer Billie Eilish, “Poor Things” star Ramy Youssef and more celebrities wore red pins in support of Artists for Ceasefire at the Oscars red carpet on Sunday. “We’re calling for immediate, permanent ceasefire in Gaza. We’re calling for peace and lasting justice for the people of Palestine,” Youssef told Variety‘s Marc Malkin on the red carpet.

Marc Malkin Senior Editor, Culture and Events Kal Penn admits he didn’t know much about Anna Nicole Smith’s physician, Dr. Sandeep Kapoor, before he was approached to star as the doctor in the indie adaptation of his memoir, “Trust Me, I’m a Doctor.” “But then I read the doctor’s autobiography and found it interesting and compelling,” Penn told me Monday night at the South Asians at the Oscars party on the Paramount lot. Variety’s Tatiana Siegel exclusively reported Feb.

Jon Stewart had a field day on The Daily Show mocking Donald Trump as the presidential campaign heats up.

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.

Jon Stewart won’t just be slinging jokes on Mondays at “The Daily Show” this spring.The 61-year-old comic, who is currently hosting Comedy Central’s satirical news program once a week, recently announced he’s heading out on an 11-show tour, he’s calling ‘An Evening with Jon Stewart’ from March through May.Along the way, the New York City native and current New Jersey resident will show quite a bit of love to the Northeast.To kick off the run, he’ll perform back-to-back nights at Poughkeepsie, NY’s Bardavon Opera House on Friday, March 1 and Saturday, March 2.Then, on March 29-30, the 2022 Mark Twain Prize Winner for American Humor is slated to headline three shows at Princeton, NJ’s McCarter Theatre Center on March 29-30.Stewart’s brief trek will come to a close close at the sprawling Netflix is a Joke Festival in Los Angeles on Friday, May 3.As of now, tickets are available for all 11 gigs.Prices start at $73 before fees on Vivid Seats at the time of publication.For other shows, seats can be found for anywhere from $77 to $408 before fees.Want to catch the politically astute comedian live this year?We’ve got everything you need to know and more about the ‘An Evening with Jon Stewart Tour’ below.All prices listed above are subject to fluctuation.A complete calendar including all tour dates, venues and links to the cheapest tickets available can be found here:(Note: The New York Post confirmed all above prices at the publication time. All prices are in US dollars, subject to fluctuation and include additional fees at checkout.)Vivid Seats is a verified secondary market ticketing platform, and prices may be higher or lower than face value, depending on demand.

Jon Stewart opened this week’s Monday night Daily Show by calling himself the captain of a dying medium, and now we know why.

Jon Stewart’s return to The Daily Show is paying off for Comedy Central.

Jon Stewart used his second episode back on The Daily Show to rip into Tucker Carlson’s trip to Russia to interview Vladimir Putin.The former Fox News anchor now has a show on his own network as well as X/Twitter, and last week he did a sit-down interview with the Russian president, the first Putin has given to a Western journalist since the invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.Responding to the interview, Stewart savaged Carlson for failing to challenge some of Putin’s assertions, and for disingenuously arguing that Russian citizens have an advantage over Americans because groceries are cheaper, something that Carlson claimed made him feel “radicalised”.“You’re such a dick,” Stewart retorted.“It will radicalise you, unless you understand basic economics,” he continued. “See, $104 for groceries sounds like a great bargain, unless you realise that Russians earn less than $200 dollars a week.”“But that’s the kind of context that a – what did you call yourself earlier – a journalist would’ve provided.

Jon Stewart knows just how to turn his haters into punchlines. The 61-year-old host of “The Daily Show” made his return to the program last week after nearly a decade away from the desk. On Monday’s show, he reacted to people’s opinions of his revival from X, the platform previously known as Twitter.

Jon Stewart conceded last night that he has some lessons to learn from a Russian-hopping “journalist” like Tucker Carlson. Chastened by Daily Show critics who snarked about the “both-sides-isms” of Stewart’s return to his old late night desk last week, a faux-humbled Stewart set out to learn whatever he could from his newfound mentor-du-jour, the Putin-chatting Tucker Carlson.

The final numbers are in:Jon Stewart’s February 12 return to Comedy Central’sThe Daily Show averaged more than 3 million total viewers across the night in Nielsen’s Live+3 numbers, which include simulcasts and the encore.

John Oliver is a name familiar to many, known for his witty commentary and satirical take on current events. Yet, behind the scenes, one of his most cherished roles is not that of a comedian or TV host, but rather that of a husband to his wife, Kate Norley!

Jon Stewart scored big numbers for his return to The Daily Show.

Selome Hailu Jon Stewart‘s return to “The Daily Show” on Monday brought in 1.9 million viewers, marking the show’s biggest audience in more than five years. Of those 1.9 million viewers, 930,000 tuned in via Comedy Central, while the rest were counted across simulcasts on CMT, Logo, MTV, MTV2, Paramount Network, Pop and TV Land. These figures come from Live + Same Day as reported by Nielsen.

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.