It’s been more than a year since Trevor Noah left “The Daily Show.” Since then, people have been wondering when Comedy Central would announce his permanent replacement as host. All of 2023 came and went with nary a hint at who might become the host of the variety show. Well, as we finish the first month of 2024, we finally have news about who’s going to host “The Daily Show,” but it’s absolutely not who you would have guessed, and it’s not in the way you were expecting.
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According to THR, Jon Stewart is returning as host of “The Daily Show.” Well, kinda. You see, he will be hosting the show, but only on Mondays, and only through the rest of 2024. As this is a huge election year, “The Daily Show” needs to draw ratings, and what better way to do that than to see the return of Stewart, who hosted the show from 1999 to 2015? But the catch is that we’ll only see him on Mondays.
“Jon Stewart is the voice of our generation, and we are honored to have him return to Comedy Central’s ‘The Daily Show’ to help us all make sense of the insanity and division roiling the country as we enter the election season,” said Chris McCarthy, President/CEO of Showtime/MTV Entertainment Studios. “In our age of staggering hypocrisy and performative politics, Jon is the perfect person to puncture the empty rhetoric and provide much-needed clarity with his brilliant wit.”
Now, you may be asking, “What about the days other than Monday?” Well, it appears Comedy Central is perfectly content with its recent practice of letting a rotating group of correspondents, such as Jordan Klepper, Desi Lydic, Ronny Chieng, Michael Kosta, and Dulcé Sloan, stay around to host on occasion. But really, this is all going to be about Jon Stewart carrying the load on Monday.
If you’ve been following Stewart since he left “The Daily Show,” his biggest project was an Apple TV+ variety show that was very reminiscent of his previous gig. That series, “The Problem with Jon Stewart,” only ran for a couple of seasons and never caught on like he was hoping for. Unfortunately for him, he just wasn’t able to replicate the ‘Daily Show’ success. But hey, maybe this will give Stewart and his former show, both, a shot in the arm.
Stewart is expected to make his return to “The Daily Show” on February 12.