I'll never not believe that if Jon was running the Daily Show for the 2016 election season, Trump wouldn't have been elected.

Either way, Zelenskyy proved what a satirical comedian with good character can do on the world stage. Wish Jon would just run for office already...

Side note: Mehdi Hasan has left MSNBC.... Apart from Jon, I can think of nobody else more qualified to run the Daily Show.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/jon-stewart-atones-for-his-own-shitty-anti-trans-jokes

He is self aware and takes responsibility, which I think is the best thing we can expect from just about anyone.

Or 9/11, JFK assassination, or MLK, maybe when Debbie Wasserman Schultz handed the DNC over to the Clinton campaign, maybe after the civil war when the traitors weren’t brought to justice, or when Gore won but didn’t take the seat. There are so many turning points.

I often wonder if an impassioned Jon Stewart plea in 2016 might have motivated enough young Bernie supporters to make the difference in a few swing states.

Does Jon even want the job? It sucks. You have to deal with so many roadblocks. You get blamed for everything. You pitch ideas and make demands and some shithead dept will block you and some company throws billions to turn the public against you.

Unless he finds loopholes like Trump and load it up with toadies willing to bow to the king, which I doubt Stewart wants to abuse because he has ethics, it'll be hard to get much of the government on his side.

Even basic shit like feeding school kids is a fucking political theater by assholes.

How dare you say “first”. Don’t you put that bad mojo on me

He was doing his own thing until Apple killed his show over fears that he would talk about China.

He was the last person considered because 1) he already hosted for 16 years and quit so they probably assumed he didn’t want to go back to it, and 2) when they started considering people, Stewart was under contract with a competing show on AppleTV+ (The Problem w/ Jon Stewart), but that show was recently cancelled. Also, The Problem only airs once a week, so imagine Stewart told CC that he’d only come back to do one show weekly rather than the four that he used to do.

Maybe not funny all the time, but if you go on YouTube the daily show channel used to post between the scenes cuts of Trevor. I also used to dislike his delivery, but I found him way more interesting and engrossing in the more off-the-cuff style. I am convinced it was the writers or producers who were dropping the ball.

As someone with no special insight into the internal workings, and who didnt watch trevor noah's DS too much, or know much about noah himself, i've honestly been pretty convinced that the problems with TN DS doesn't really have anything to do with trevor specifically, but i'm reasonably sure that comedy central took jon stewart leaving as an opportunity to "tame" the writing on the show.

I feel like comedy central wanted to pull the show back from leaning too far left to appeal to a wider audience.

What i mean by that, is where jon stewart might tear into a political figure for the way they stand on some particular issue he disagrees with, trevor's daily show would like...make fun of their hair/clothes, or some other "safe" joke that doesn't get too political.

And noah, unfairly, probably takes all the blame for this, even though i'm quite sure this is on the studio heads and was outside his control.

His stand-up is actually really great. I just never really liked him all that much on TDS.

I absolutely turned around on Noah. His standup is fantastic.

His daily show era is still kinda bland. His "Outsider looking into America" perspective didn't really fit what Stewart built up.

He has a great mix of humor and serious discussions about important topics. He calls out guests for avoiding answering difficult questions etc.

I cant even express it very well, but the man is a legend. One of a kind.

He's willing to ask the questions other networks are to afraid to ask. He has destroyed careers because of it look up jon Stewart and hard ball. We do have NPR and MSNBC but they still won't ask the hard questions or confront the hosts. I've heard that only a couple of times on NPR but only lately. Plus Jon can taunt the people to afraid to come on unlike a professional news orgs.

When he got together with Colbert and did the Colbert report and tricked the entire GOP that was just icing on the cake.

Jon Stewart is quite awesome in my book. He is legit funny and he put the Daily Show on the map with being officially a comedy show (and it was hilariously funny) but at the same time being just about the only reliable news source as he just cut through the political bullshit from both sides (again, in a super funny way). He has great interviews with politicians where he calls them out on their bullshit so hard that you wonder why any politician would still want to do interviews with him, but yet they kept coming.

Thing is, you can tell that he researches and knows the subjects that he talks about and he actually cares, so if during interviews the guy comes up with some bullshit arguments Jon would typically tear him a new hole with actual facts. He was like the original "he crushed that guy" guy. IIRC, he (temporarily) crushed ticket Carlson's career by literally ending tickets show overnight with an interview. Unfortunately, Jon retired and Tucker was fucking back.

His show also was the birth place of other comedians like john Oliver (who went on to make the similar great show "last week tonight"), Steve carell, and Stephen Colbert

The guy following after him, Trevor Noah, was just a sad little shadow, honestly, and in stoked to hear Jon is back as he has shown that he hasn't lost his touch.

In addition to what the others have said, Jon was a strong advocate for the 9/11 First Responders. Being a New Yorker himself, he took it extremely personally when Congress (controlled by, well go ahead and guess) was dragging their feet on giving these guys the health benefits they needed.

His testimony before Congress was fantastic, and ultimately he succeeded