THE MONDAY MAN
Jon Stewart returns to ‘Daily Show’ once a week
JON STEWART is going back to his roots at “The Daily Show.”
The comedian, 61, was the longtime host of the Comedy Central satirical news program from 1999 until 2015.
Stewart will be appearing as emcee of the series starting Feb. 12, however, there is just one small change.
He will only be hosting the Monday episodes, with guests taking over from Tuesdays to Thursdays.
His part-time gig was announced on Wednesday by Showtime and MTV Entertainment Studios.
He will helm the Monday show through the 2024 presidential election season and into 2025. “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,” Chris McCarthy, chief executive of Showtime and MTV Entertainment Studios, noted in a statement. “In our age of staggering hypocrisy and performative politics,” McCarthy continued. “Jon is the perfect person to puncture the empty rhetoric and provide much-needed clarity with his brilliant wit.”
Once the former Oscars host left the show almost a decade ago, Trevor Noah was put on as his replacement. Stewart then had a show on Apple TV+ called “The Problem With Jon Stewart” that ran for two seasons.
He will only be hosting the Monday episodes through the 2024 presidential election season and into early 2025. Guests will take over from Tuesdays to Thursdays.
However, he parted ways with the steamer in October 2023 and his series came to a swift end due to executives seemingly having too much control over his sensitive subject matter.
Noah, the South African funnyman, departed “The Daily Show” in December 2022.
Last year, a rotating cast of guest emcees took over each week, including stars such as Leslie Jones, Charlemagne The God and Kal Penn.
Rumors swirled last summer that Hasan Minhaj was eyed as a frontrunner to replace Noah. Minhaj was a correspondent on the show from 2014 to 2018, appearing a handful of .
A rotating round of guest emcees then took over each week last year, including stars such as Leslie Jones, Charlemagne The God and Kal Penn.
Rumors swirled last summer that Hasan Minhaj was eyed as a frontrunner to replace Noah, 39. Minhaj was a correspondent on the show from 2014 to 2018, appearing a handful of times.
Jones, 56, expressed her desire to run the desk at “The Daily Show” last year. The “Saturday
Night Live” alum revealed to People that the new host should “definitely should be a black woman.”
“It would be great to have a black woman on late night.
It’s time. I think people are ready for that. Now, I’m not s–tting on white women or whatever. I’m just saying.”