In a new interview with former Obama advisor David Axelrod, Jon Stewart offered a grim assessment of America’s political landscape, with harsh words for Democrats, Republicans, Hillary Clinton, the media and most of all Donald Trump, who he ridiculed as an “unrepentant, narcissistic asshole.”
Jon Stewart isn’t dead but he might as well be—the man hasn’t appeared on television in months, leaving the once-robust television-blog ecosystem shriveled and weak in the hands of that guy who replaced him (if he’s even still on the air.) But rejoice! This week Stewart popped up at the United Service Organization…
To close out his final appearance on the Daily Show, Jon Stewart brought out his fellow sons of Jersey Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band to perform “Land of Hopes and Dreams” and “Born to Run.”
Jon Stewart got a loving sendoff from nearly all of the correspondents he’s worked with on The Daily Show, but some of the notable people he’s mocked in the past also had their chance to get the last word in.
After 16 years and 2,581 episodes, Jon Stewart has left the Daily Show, the half-hour that established the template for successful satirical news shows and made Stephen Colbert, Steve Carell, and John Oliver into household names. He’ll be missed, and so will the millions of clicks he generates for blogs and news sites…
With his final episode as host of the Daily Show just a week away, Jon Stewart hit NYC’s Comedy Cellar last night with Louis C.K. and former Daily Show/current Nightly Show producer Rory Albanese and ended up getting onstage for 10 minutes of surprise stand-up.
Over the last few years, the White House has taken Jon Stewart very seriously, Politico reports, quietly summoning the comedian to the Oval Office on at least two occasions and routinely backchanneling with Daily Show writers and producers.
In a newly released episode of Marc Maron’s WTF podcast, Daily Show alum Wyatt Cenac recounted his troubled relationship with host Jon Stewart, which culminated in a blow up over an impression the former correspondent found racially insensitive.
Jon Stewart’s monologue tonight was an impassioned, frustrated meditation on the Charleston shooting and other recent tragedies. “I didn’t do my job today,” he said. “I’ve got nothing for you in terms of jokes and sounds, because of what happened in South Carolina.”
What is Bill Simmons going to do next? The possibilities are... well, not exactly endless. Fox will probably make a play for him. Bleacher Report? Haha. There will definitely be various rich dudes looking to align themselves with the one-time bratty prince of ESPN, including, as we’ve heard, possibly a (fellow)…
It’s been public knowledge for some time that Jon Stewart is leaving the Daily Show in August, to be replaced by Trevor Noah, a handsome South African comic with a back catalog of wack Twitter jokes. Now we’ve got the first promo for Noah’s “new and sexy” Daily Show, and a premiere date: Sept. 28.
On Saturday, The Guardian published a story titled “Jon Stewart: why I quit The Daily Show,” the result of a two interviews between the retiring host and writer Hadley Freeman. In it, Stewart offers a number of clear (if not particularly surprising) reasons for stepping down, including election cycle fatigue,…
After 16 years as host of The Daily Show, Jon Stewart announced at a live-taping on Tuesday that he would be retiring from the show, The A.V. Club reports. In a statement to Entertainment Weekly, Comedy Central president Michele Ganeless said that Stewart will stay with The Daily Show "until later this year":
Jon Stewart dropped the jokes Wednesday night when discussing the shooting that left 12 people dead at French satire paper Charlie Hebdo, adopting the solemn demeanor he had to bring out way, way too often in 2014.
The Daily Show is back, providing a palliative balm for the lingering itch where the Colbert Report used to be. But poor Jon Stewart has returned to 2015 only to find the news cycle has already moved on to 2016 (or backward to 1992) with a Clinton vs. Bush race for the White House. Better endorse someone!
Jon Stewart learned the gruesome details of the CIA's torture of detainees along with the rest of us yesterday, and it made him feel like Mr. Creosote after a wafer-thin mint. Which is to say, he wanted to puke—an understandable reaction after learning an inmate's meal was "pureed and rectally infused," apparently…
On last Monday's Daily Show, Jon Stewart rebutted the idea that the killing of Mike Brown in Ferguson, Mo. was "an isolated incident" by listing off some of the many, many U.S. police shootings of unarmed black men in recent years. But one of those men, Dante Parker, wasn't actually shot by police.
On the second day of his scathing coverage of a grand jury's decision not to indict the cop who choked Eric Garner to death, Jon Stewart remained mostly serious, but some of the things people are saying about the case were too dumb and wrong not to mock. And by "people," I mean Rand Paul.
Last night, as thousands protested in New York, Jon Stewart opened the Daily Show with a mostly serious monologue about the decision not to indict the police officer who killed Eric Garner. "I don't know," Stewart said at one point. "I honestly don't know what to say."
Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert are close friends who've collaborated on everything from the Daily Show to the Rally to Restore Sanity to a nerdy-as-hell lightsaber battle, but Stewart had never been a guest on the Colbert Report until last night.
