Comic Jon Stewart is rewinding the clock, returning to The Each day Present as an occasional host and govt producing by way of the 2024 US elections cycle.
Comedy Central on Wednesday (Jan 24) stated Stewart will host the topical TV present, the perch he dominated for 16 years beginning in 1999, each Monday beginning Feb 12. A rotating line-up of present regulars are on faucet for the remainder of the week.
“Jon Stewart is the voice of our technology, 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,” Chris McCarthy, president and CEO of Showtime/MTV Leisure Studios, stated in a press release.
“In our age of staggering hypocrisy and performative politics, Jon is the proper particular person to puncture the empty rhetoric and supply much-needed readability along with his good wit.”
Over time, The Each day Present – first hosted by Craig Kilborn, then Stewart and Trevor Noah – has skewered the left and proper by making the media a personality and taking part in it completely straight, regardless of how ridiculous. The present, which gained an Emmy Award this month for greatest discuss sequence, has not had a everlasting host since Noah left final 12 months.
The present’s long-term legacy as a expertise incubator is sterling, turning into a launching pad for the likes of Aasif Mandvi, John Oliver, Larry Wilmore, Jordan Klepper and Samantha Bee.
Lately, Stewart’s The Downside With Jon Stewart was canceled on Apple’s streaming service.