Jon Stewart leaving The Daily Show later this year

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Janx

Hero

• Feb 11, 2015

• #11

I think the great thing the Daily Show did was to cultivate interest in news and world events and point out the contradictions and such that inspired a number of people to take action, where they might have complacently sat around watching a Kronkite-wannabe read the teleprompter.

The show was inherently biased, but the bias was generally to be pro-truth and anti-stupid. Jon Stewart's show did stand for something besides laughs.

 

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tuxgeo

Adventurer

• Feb 12, 2015

• #12

The frybacon (not its real name) reports that former interim Yahoo CEO Ross Levinsohn posted (and later deleted) an offer on Facebook to give Jon Stewart $100 million per year to re-launch his show as a "direct-to-consumer" product.

That report includes a link to Twitter comments collected by the weeklystandard from Bill Clinton and Elizabeth Warren about Stewart.

The report also says, "The post," [political slam snipped], "appears to have been deleted. However, Business Insider has preserved it here."
(The B.I. page contains a video of Stewart breaking the news to his audience.)

 

Altamont Ravenard

Explorer

• Feb 12, 2015

• #13

Him and Colbert had the best hour of TV, period. I'm going to miss those guys tremendously. I've watched their shows regularly, nay, religiously for the last 8 years at least. I'm looking forward his next projects of course, and I have no idea who could fill his shoes at the Daily Show. On the other hand, I'm glad he's getting out. For the last year and a half or so, he seemed like he was a little too fed up with the general state of news orgnizations and the political landscape.

He did one hell of a service to the American people in general and he deserves his rest.

AR

 

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Tranick

First Post

• Feb 14, 2015

• #14

The Daily Show was definitely one of my favorite shows. That guy was awesome, super funny, and still told what was going on. I'm gonna miss him.