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Jon Stewart Leaving ‘The Daily Show’

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Jon Stewart Leaving the Daily Show
February 10, 2015 | 03:50PM PT
Variety Staff

Jon Stewart said he would step down from Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show” after 17 years, leaving a new hole in the ranks of late-night television and setting up another challenge for the Viacom-owned cable network, which recently bid farewell to popular time-slot host, Stephen Colbert.

Stewart’s current contract is believed to end around the fall of 2015, and he is expected to stay until that time.

The news is not entirely surprising. Stewart. 52, had discussed the possibility of leaving “The Daily Show” while promoting “Rosewater,” a film that marked his directorial debut. And yet, his departure means that the backbone of Comedy Central’s lineup is looser than it has been in some time. The network in January launched “The Nightly Show,” starring producer and writer Larry Wilmore, as a successor to Colbert’s “Colbert Report,” which ended in December. Colbert will succeed David Letterman on CBS’ “Late Show” later this year.

Comedy Central executives have quietly been planning for his exit. “I don’t like to think about the day that Jon leaves, but there will be a day. The show will live on. It is a franchise, like the ‘Tonight Show,'” Michele Ganeless, Comedy Central’s president told Variety in December. “We’ll figure it out when we get there. He has set the standard. We will identify talent, and hopefully, we will find the next Jon Stewart.”

Stewart’s departure represents another kind of loss for Comedy Central. He played a key role in discovering and promoting new talent. Indeed, Colbert and Wilmore were contributors to Stewart’s program before he brought them to the attention of network executives as talent that could anchor their own programs. Stewart is a producer of “Nightly.” He also gets some credit for the rise of John Oliver, the British comedian who recently moved to HBO after a successful stint filling in for Stewart while he worked on his movie.

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I'm sorta surprised at the timing of this, given all the stories last year about NBC offering to back up the Brink's truck to run "Meet the Press" and the sorta rumblings about him taking over for Letterman. Gotta wonder what, if anything, he's got lined up.

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I doubt he does another TV show-- wouldn't be surprised if he tries to focus on directing for a while. Rosewater was pretty good, definitely a worthy debut.

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He said TDS was going to be the last TV show hosting gig he ever had.

That was a long ass time ago, but I still can't see him taking another TV job.

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It's hard. I keep people saying Louis, Poehler, etc, but that would be a step backwards for those people IMO. But it's going to have to be someone with a heftier name value.

This is really the only basic cable talk show that's become an institution. TDS is a completely different thing now than it was when Stewart took over, so I don't know if they can go with someone who was at his level in 1998. There's an actual legacy to live up to now, whereas there wasn't with Kilborn.

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He has a adam corollaesque asthetic that I DON'T want to see on The Daily Show.

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His aesthetic. His age. His political beliefs. His gleeful pleasure in remaining un-PC. His burned bridges.

He also wouldn't get it because he shouldn't be doing political satire and I was kidding.

But I would love to see him get another show somewhere.

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Also think he was kind of shitty at it.



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Aisha is into politics a little bit, I'm not sure about Joel. But on a personal level, it would be better if they picked a woman and / or person of color.

all jokes aside, I really dig some Kilborn back in the day. My dude was hilarious.

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If it interested him.

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Especially considering John is already gone.

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what little I've seen from him is pretty unimpressive. I'd love to be proven wrong, but for now... meh

everyone on the internet is so quick these days to point out a SEXIST or RACIST or HOMOPHOBIC person. I mean don't comedians get to play by different rules? Lighten up.

Trouble is, if you're going with that kind of humor you need to really bring the funny; those tweets of his are corny as shit.

Also - the jokes that are put on Twitter from nearly anyone have lots of misses. It's a free, brainstormy kind of format many comics use to workshop material. It's not all A+ stuff....rarely is it EVER A+ stuff.

I have zero problem with these. Sure, most aren't funny, but who cares?

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And those were on TV, not casually tweeted out while taking a shit.

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And stop playing like they actually give a shit about his stupid tweets.

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