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Jon Stewart returns to ‘The Daily Show’ for 2024 election (www.washingtonpost.com)

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[-] Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 19 points 9 months ago

He comes back to us now - at the turn of the tide.

[-] BrokenGlepnir@lemmy.world 17 points 9 months ago

"Jon Stewart the Grey, yes that's what they used to call me. I am Jon Stewart the white."

[-] Dran_Arcana@lemmy.world 16 points 9 months ago

The return of the king

[-] idealotus@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago

I think the NYT also added that when they won an Emmy, Roy Wood mouthed, "hire a host"

Glad Stewart is coming back, but it's going to be a wild 2024 regardless.

[-] autotldr@lemmings.world 3 points 9 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:

“Jon Stewart is the voice of our generation, and we are honored to have him return to Comedy Central’s ‘The Daily Show’ to help us all make sense of the insanity and division roiling the country as we enter the election season,” Chris McCarthy, president and CEO of Paramount Media Networks, said in a statement.

“In our age of staggering hypocrisy and performative politics, Jon is the perfect person to puncture the empty rhetoric and provide much-needed clarity with his brilliant wit.”

Stewart headlined the satirical talk show from 1999 to 2015, turning it into a cultural behemoth where interview clips and segments frequently went viral for days after they aired.

The show won 24 Emmys under Stewart and helped launch the careers of other successful comedians, including Stephen Colbert, John Oliver and Samantha Bee.

Since then, Comedy Central had been cycling through a rotating cast of guest hosts to fill the void, including Charlamagne tha God, Sarah Silverman, Leslie Jones and Michelle Wolf.

Comedian Hasan Minhaj was seen as a leading candidate to take the gig, but a New Yorker report on his embellished personal stories may have hurt his chances.

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