After scuttling a months-long search for a new host, the Paramount Global network said it had enlisted Jon Stewart, who presided over the late-night mainstay’s most popular era, to serve as its host on Monday nights throughout the 2024 election cycle and to run the program. He is expected to oversee the program through 2025. Various “Daily Show” correspondents will host the program Tuesday through Thursday nights, and Jen Flanz, the current executive producer, will continue her duties on the show.
It’s a little surprising that he’s never ventured into his own platform. At this point, Comedy Central (as well as they’ve been for his sense of political humor thus far) seems a bit of a downgrade for Stewart. Meanwhile, you’ve got the far right conspiracists getting banned from mainstream social media and forced to establish their own “free speech” platforms. Isn’t Jon, in some sense, just the far(ther) left mirror-image version of Jones?
I really enjoyed his stint at Apple (more akin to Last Week Tonight + VOX) and would have liked him to continue more down that path of investigative reporting and interviews. I just don’t know if he’ll have the freedom he wants / deserves on platform owned by Paramount.
Jon deserves something bigger than a cable comedy network. He deserves a ton of money to invest in passionate journalists and writers. At least something as big, if not bigger, than Oliver gets. I don’t know… I just feel like we haven’t yet seen Jon as his ultimate form. Maybe our projections of what we all want from him are too grand for his own aspirations.
I don’t think Jon is far-left. Maybe a progressive liberal. AFAIK, he’s not even a SocDem, much less a DemSoc. Alex Jones is just a grifter conspiracy theorist. The likes of Matt Walsh and Michael Knowles are full-on fascists, and I’d think the mirror of that would be an anarcho-socialist or communist.