Jon Stewart to Return as ‘Daily Show’ Host

The Each day Present has been in search of a everlasting host for over a 12 months now, ever since Trevor Noah introduced he was leaving the sequence method again in September of 2022. Since then, the present has continued on with a sequence of rotating celeb visitor hosts, a selection that’s confirmed to be surprisingly profitable within the rankings — a lot so, in truth, that there have been current stories that Comedy Central was contemplating merely not hiring a brand new host. As an alternative, the plan could be to let the present’s varied correspondents take turns anchoring the sequence.

That’s kind of what will occur shifting ahead, with one main twist: The sequence’ long-serving former host Jon Stewart can be returning to host The Each day Present once more, however solely on Monday nights. Each Monday, Stewart will seem; the opposite nights of the week can be headlined by the correspondents.

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Right here was Showtime/MTV Leisure Studios’ Chris McCarthy on the very shocking announcement:

Jon Stewart is the voice of our era, and we’re honored to have him return to Comedy Central’s The Each day Present to assist us all make sense of the madness and division roiling the nation as we enter the election season. In our age of staggering hypocrisy and performative politics, Jon is the right individual to puncture the empty rhetoric and supply much-needed readability together with his sensible wit.

Stewart initially joined The Each day Present in 1999, changing the sequence’ authentic host, Craig Kilborn. Underneath Stewart’s management, TDS turned one of the well-liked and influential sequence in late evening TV. (That’s additionally when it adopted its now trademark bent as a present satirizing politics and political information.)

Stewart left the present in 2015 to pursue different tasks; he directed a film and later returned to TV because the host of Apple’s The Downside With Jon Stewart. Final October, The Downside was canceled, reportedly over inventive variations between the corporate and Stewart in regards to the subjects that the present ought to cowl.

Whereas having Stewart again can be a giant deal for long-time Each day Present followers, simply how a lot of a distinction he could make ratings-wise at some point every week is unclear. Will probably be attention-grabbing to check the viewership on his nights to the remainder of the week.

Stewart will return to the present beginning the week of February 12.