Alumni leave a lasting legacy,
The Daily Show has spawned perhaps the greatest proliferation of fake-news people on television today.
Here are a few of the high-profile alumni who have worked with Jon Stewart during his 19 years on the show. Steve Carell Correspondent on The Daily Show from 1999 until 2005. That’s before he graduated to the Dunder Mifflin company selling paper products as Michael Scott in The Office.
And don’t forget the movie career: The 40 Year Old Virgin, Foxcatcher, Little Miss Sunshine, Get Smart . . . Stephen Colbert Colbert started on The Daily Show in 1997 during the Craig Kilborn years and later sat in for Stewart when the host was on leave. He departed in 2005 to host his own show, The Colbert Report. He replaces David Letterman on late-night TV this fall. Samantha Bee Toronto-born Bee was The Daily Show’s longest-serving correspondent.
She left the show this year to work on several projects, including her
own talk show for TBS. John Oliver The Daily Show’s “British Correspondent” from 2006-13. Now hosting the popular Last Week Tonight
With John Oliver on HBO. Larry Wilmore The “senior black correspondent” on The Daily Show from 2006-14.
He now hosts The Nightly Show With Larry Wilmore on Comedy Central. Ed Helms Correspondent from 2002-06. He joined The Office in 2006, continuing through its conclusion in 2013. His films include The Hangover trilogy and We’re the Millers. Aasif Mandvi Correspondent from 2006-15. Along with comic TV appearances, he has been a regular on the dramas The Bedford Diaries and Jericho, as well as on the current HBO comedy The Brink. Rob Corddry Correspondent from 2002-06. After The Daily Show, he created and stars in the online and TV cult favourite Childrens Hospital. With files from the Associated Press