Jon Stewart Returns to "The Daily Show" as Host and Executive Producer

Jon Stewart is the Millennial Walter Cronkite.

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.
- I don't. His talents would have been wasted on them. He can do a lot more with his fame outside of the restrictive nonsense that politics brings.
- 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.

Fuck yeah, man. He was the best

I've had major respect for him since he was on crossfire way back in the day. He took those guys to school and then beat them (verbally) like a rented mule. Crossfire went off the air shortly after his appearance. If you have never seen that episode do yourself a favor and go watch it.
- And the painful thing is that all that dressdown, which should have ended careers, resulted in was to set Tucker Carlson on a path of becoming the face of the extreme right.
- Same. That clip is gold. Made tucker Carlson look like a total moron

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.

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

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

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

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.

@midnight was amazing...
I tried her knockoff show "after midnight" and it was terrible.
- Lmao at the people down voting. Her new show is garbage, who the hell green lit this piece of shit colostomy bag of random segments brought together.

Yay

This is the best summary I could come up with:

For the remainder of the week, the Comedy Central series will rely on a team of correspondents, which are likely to include Jordan Klepper, Desi Lydic, Ronny Chieng, Michael Kosta and Dulcé Sloan.

“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,” said Chris McCarthy, president and CEO of Showtime/MTV Entertainment Studios.

In an interview with THR at the time, McCarthy said he’d been blown away by both the linear tune-in — up 13 percent year-over-year — and the social excitement around the procession of hosts, which included Kal Penn, Leslie Jones, Chelsea Handler, Hasan Minhaj and Sarah Silverman.

In fact, the former correspondent’s deal to take over as Noah’s replacement was all but done by late summer, when The New Yorker published an article alleging that he had exaggerated and, in some cases, made up autobiographical details of his comedy.

(The comic later released a 20-minute video, via THR, where he fact-checked the New Yorker story, which he called “so needlessly misleading.”) The host search, it seemed, would continue, albeit after the SAG strike concluded.

He told NPR that his decision was based on the demands of the correspondent’s role on his schedule, as well as a disinterest in continuing in the position while “waiting for someone else to take the top job.” (His photo and bio remain on the Comedy Central site.)

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