Jon Stewart is heading back to “The Daily Show.”
More than 25 years after starting on the Emmy Award-winning late-night show and nearly nine years after his exit, Stewart will host Monday episodes of “The Daily Show” through the 2024 presidential election. The Emmy Award-winning host will also serve as an executive producer on “The Daily Show” during this run.
“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 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.”
While Stewart will host the show on Mondays beginning on February 12, the other nights will be spearheaded by “The Daily Show” correspondents, including Jordan Klepper, Desi Lydic, Ronny Chieng, Michael Kosta, and Dulcé Sloan.
Stewart left “The Daily Show” in 2015 after an unprecedented run of success. He was replaced by Trevor Noah, who served as host until the end of 2022. (Noah and “The Daily Show” team won a 2023 Emmy Award earlier this year for Best Variety Talk Series.) In 2023, numerous guest hosts took over “The Daily Show,” with the wide expectation that Hasan Minhaj would perhaps take over the late-night show on a full-time basis. But as The Hollywood Reporter and other outlets have reported, Minhaj was allegedly passed over following the publication of an article that called into question the veracity of Minhaj’s comedy anecdotes. (In response, Minhaj released a video that claimed the piece, published by the New Yorker, was “needlessly misleading.”)
Stewart’s return comes after his Apple TV+ show, “The Problem with Jon Stewart,” came to an end amid reported creative differences.
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