Full Coverage: Jon Stewart’s legacy and the future of ‘The Daily Show’
Jon Stewart shocked fans by announcing he would be leaving his job as host of “The Daily Show,” a position he’s held since 1999. Explore the stories we’ve written about his decision, his late-night satire and his forays beyond television.
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Jon Stewart said his final “Daily Show” adios on Thursday with a near-record audience.
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It’s not lost on Trevor Noah that he has a big seat to fill as he prepares to take the helm of Comedy Central’s “Daily Show” in September.
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When Jon Stewart made his debut as host of “The Daily Show” in January 1999, the idea that the comedian then best known for a short-lived syndicated talk show and supporting parts in forgettable movies would one day have the ear of the president would have seemed like, well, a joke.
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Though he’s best known for skewering politicians and the news media, departing “Daily Show” host Jon Stewart has long applied his brand of skeptical humor to the world of pop culture.
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Thursday was a big night for political culture, what with the first Republican debate on Fox News and the last “Daily Show With Jon Stewart” on Comedy Central.
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Jon Stewart may be retiring from nightly TV, but he’s still lobbing hand grenades at Fox News.
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Jon Stewart is a much shorter and more evidently nervous version of Craig Kilborn, which is to say he’s hardly Craig Kilborn at all.
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Yes, there were a few laughs between President Obama and Jon Stewart on Tuesday during a taping of “The Daily Show.”
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Need a few unscheduled moments of zen before Jon Stewart exits “The Daily Show” in August?
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Trevor Noah will make his debut as host of “The Daily Show” on Sept. 28, Comedy Central announced Thursday.
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What was Comedy Central thinking?
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Comedy Central is backing up its new “Daily Show” host, Trevor Noah, after his social media history came back to haunt him.
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Trevor Noah, a 31-year-old comedian who has been a contributor to Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show,” will be the program’s new host when current host Jon Stewart leaves later this year, the network announced Monday.
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On Tuesday, Jon Stewart dropped the bomb on his audience: He’s leaving “The Daily Show” sometime this year.
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The Times’ Christy Khoshaba takes a look at 7 jobs for Jon Stewart after ‘Daily Show,’ according to Twitter.
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With Jon Stewart leaving his post on “The Daily Show,” the joke may be on Comedy Central.
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On “The Daily Show,” Jon Stewart can make any celebrity promotional appearance fun with his laid-back shoot-the-bull style.
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During his announcement Tuesday night that he was planning to leave “The Daily Show” sometime this year, Jon Stewart said “I don’t have any specific plans” for a post-”Daily Show” life other than getting dinner on a school night with his family.
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At the end of Tuesday night’s “The Daily Show,” with his live audience watching agape and tape-delayed TV viewers expecting it but equally agape, Jon Stewart said he’d be calling it quits later this year.
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On Tuesday, Jon Stewart shocked fans by announcing he would be leaving his job as host of “The Daily Show,” a position he’s held since 1999.
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Jon Stewart plans to step aside as host of Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show” later this year, ending a 16-year run that changed the way Americans view the news.
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It seems like everybody in media, from the cable news chatterers to the morning radio crews is talking about Brian Williams and the controversy that has erupted around an erroneous story Williams has been delivering about his time reporting in Iraq in 2003.
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To the untrained ear, Sarah Palin’s speeches can often sound like a garbled word salad of slogans and buzz words stitched together in the outline of a coherent thought.
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Mike Huckabee made his ninth appearance on “The Daily Show” on Monday night, and much like his other appearances, he and host Jon Stewart had a lively disagreement of ideas.
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On Monday’s “Daily Show,” Jon Stewart had just one thing to say about the lack of high-level American officials at the giant unity rally held in Paris on Sunday: “Je suis to be kidding me.”
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Jon Stewart has a message for Fox News Channel: I tell jokes for a living, so stop using me to help prove your talking points.
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It was easy for Maziar Bahari and Jon Stewart to laugh now.
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Sometimes a news story is so ridiculous that Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert can’t help but lead off with it on “The Daily Show” and “The Colbert Report.”
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Jon Stewart’s favorite sparring partner, Bill O’Reilly, was a guest on “The Daily Show” on Wednesday and it didn’t take long for a debate to happen.
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Anyone watching the news lately can be forgiven for assuming that everyone is going to be dead in a few weeks.
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Ben Affleck had a bit of an ax to grind with Jon Stewart when he stopped by “The Daily Show” on Tuesday.
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Jon Stewart introduced the segment on the Washington Redskins name-change controversy on “The Daily Show” on Thursday with an unusual disclaimer.
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Jon Stewart’s writing and directing debut was the feel-good film of the Telluride Film Festival. Now it’s headed to the Toronto film fest on a wave of good will.
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Jon Stewart’s “Rosewater” is about a deathly serious subject -- the Iranian government’s 2009 imprisonment of Newsweek journalist Maziar Bahari.
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The large New York City rap collective Wu-Tang Clan has reunited to put out a new album, “A Better Tomorrow,” to celebrate the group’s 20th anniversary.
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Jon Stewart gave Hillary Rodham Clinton all of a minute during her “Daily Show” appearance on Tuesday to discuss her new book, “Hard Choices,” before getting down to the real business at hand.
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Texas’ GOP recently adopted a platform that included, among other things, an endorsement of a controversial therapy that purports to “fix” gay people, known as gay conversion therapy.
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Whenever “The Daily Show” comes back from a break, there’s always a lot of playing catch-up on the biggest stories that happened while the show was gone.
