Earlier this week, Jon Stewart, American comic, producer, director, actor, and, most famously, tv host, will return to Comedy Central as host of the present. However it’s not a full-time gig: He’ll simply be on Monday nights, throughout the 2024 election season. The primary present will run on February 12.
Trevor Noah, who was the final full-time host of “The Every day Present,” left in late 2022. Since then, the present has had a rotating lineup of hosts.
In keeping with the New York Occasions, “Stewart may also be a producer on all episodes of ‘The Every day Present.’ Different episodes of the present might be hosted by a rotating lineup of the present’s information crew.” The New York Occasions mentioned that Chris McCarthy, a senior govt at Paramount, Comedy Central’s father or mother, was honored at Stewart’s return, “to assist us all make sense of the madness and division roiling the nation as we enter the election season.”
It seems that many within the media are in search of Stewart to be a recreation changer this coming election season. In addition they seem assured in his skill to deliver again the affect the present had had throughout its heyday. “Stewart’s expertise has at all times been utilizing humor to disarm dishonest politicians and expose the absurdities of their arguments in a extremely entertaining method. He’s uniquely gifted at drawing on his sharp comedic wit to chop by way of the political noise and separate reality from fiction for audiences. And throughout the 2024 election 12 months, that work might be important,” in line with a narrative titled “Jon Stewart’s return to ‘The Every day Present’ may shake up 2024 politics” on CNN.
Stewart is again on “The Every day Present”
Nevertheless, the information about Jon Stewart’s return to Comedy Central and “The Every day Present” comes on the heels of reports that one in all Stewart’s newer tasks, “The Drawback with Jon Stewart,” which he created with Apple TV+, had been canceled. That present solely ran for 2 seasons. In keeping with the New York Occasions, Stewart left in October 2023 because of “disagreements with Apple executives over future present matters, together with hot-button points like China and synthetic intelligence.” The Occasions additionally famous that the present he created with Apple had did not “achieve traction.”
Not everybody is happy concerning the return of Stewart, who hosted the present from 1998 till 2015 and introduced us “Your second of zen” on the finish of the present. For instance, Meghan McCain, podcaster, columnist, and creator, and daughter of Senator John McCain, not too long ago mentioned on her podcast, “I’m the primary particular person to say that after I was a young person in my early life, I beloved ‘The Every day Present,’” in line with The Every day Beast.
However her remarks about the latest sequence, “The Drawback with Jon Stewart,” weren’t as flattering. “I discovered him to be probably the most woke…,” McCain mentioned. “I didn’t acknowledge the Jon that I grew up loving.”
