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[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

Hell yes, I was never a fan of Trevor Noah personally.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

Watching The Colbert Report and Daily Show in the 2000s was something I always looked forward to each night. It'll be nice to have Jon back, if only once a week.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

There was a time when I would have praised Stewart for getting out while the getting was good (ignoring his awful podcast), but it looks like he wants to go the way of Stephen Colbert instead. RIP in peace you god damn liberal.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (2 children)

They should have given it to Adam Friedland.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

nah. is bill o'reilly still alive? bring him back! papa bear hosting the daily show would be amazing. and bipartisan. what's not to love here?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

He's been dead for a while

Edit: He's alive? What

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I think that, with everybody else zigging, they should zag. Give it to Stavros and make it completely apolitical, just bring celebrities on to talk about their dicks.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

So, back to its Kilborn roots?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

"The Problem with Jon Stewart" should have a high school or college course structured around it--it was a great series.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

Yes, a shame how it ended. I respect Jon for sticking to his principles.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Jon Stewart is the Millennial Walter Cronkite.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I just wish he'd have gotten into politics.

But I cant blame him after the hit job Al Franken got for being a progressive outsider.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Al Franken had a conscience. When called on his mysoginy, he did the honorable thing and resigned. Sadly there are no more politicians like him.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

You have zero idea what happened apparently....

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

It's kind of a shame that Taylor Tomlinson didn't get a shot at this instead of...whatever the terrible show she just started is.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

you can't even get him to host it daily? at this point just shutter the show. there's plenty of people doing good lib/progressive political comedy (and way more doing it badly), but a legacy network like Comedy Central has nothing to offer them.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Fuck yeah, man. He was the best

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

This is awesome! Love to have Jon Stewart back, and I also love to see the correspondents take over the host role more often.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Fwiw:

Stewart, who spent 16 years at the show, the majority of them Emmy-winning, will be heavily involved as an executive producer on the other nights as well.

But yeah we'll see - they are offering him a ton of work that just isn't worth it, but if he is willing...

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

I doubt the "what if x on weed" guy has much to contribute in the way of material rather than star power but maybe idk