Jon Stewart says he’s leaving The Daily Show
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Source: A.V. CLUB
Ending one of the most venerable and trusted careers in making a complete mockery of the news, Jon Stewart has announced that he is stepping down as host of The Daily Show. According to sources who were there (some of whom are already passing word along on social media), Stewart let the news slip at the taping of todays episode, telling those in the audience that hes retiring. No word yet on when exactly hes leaving, whether this means hes ending his time in the anchor chair to focus on being a Serious Movie Director now, or just how much this is Brian Williams fault. Presumably all of this information will be revealed in timeand delivered by Stewart himself tonight on your television. Well update when we have more.
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UPDATE Jon Stewart Is Leaving "The Daily Show" Later This Year
Jon Stewart is stepping down as host of The Daily Show later this year.
Comedy Central confirmed Tuesday that he would be leaving after he broke the news to the audience at the show's Tuesday taping.
http://www.nbcbayarea.com/entertainment/entertainment-news/NATL-Jon-Stewart-Leaving-The-Daily-Show-291459401.html?_osource=SocialFlowTwt_BAYBrand
marym625
(17,997 posts)This SUCKS!
billhicks76
(5,082 posts)Colbert and Stewart are our ONLY media support. This is just in time for Jeb Bush to plunge us into Hell.
marym625
(17,997 posts)In May, so we haven't lost him.
But yeah, losing Stewart sucks. Just hope he has bigger plans.
Kablooie
(18,634 posts)And his right wing character is gone.
marym625
(17,997 posts)He said that? I expected the character to be gone but not the politics
Kablooie
(18,634 posts)He said it's what he did before getting the Daily Show gig and it's what he will be going back to.
He was hesitant to take the Daily Show originally because he was unsure about doing political comedy.
I imagine there will be a little political comedy, even Leno does that, but it won't be what we are used to.
marym625
(17,997 posts)Bummer!
Kablooie
(18,634 posts)billhicks76
(5,082 posts)His character will surely be missed and giving up that kind of intense satire seems almost inexplicable. No one was better.
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)azurnoir
(45,850 posts)I agree Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
riversedge
(70,242 posts)DonCoquixote
(13,616 posts)I can think of one person that would be perfect..
DENIS LEARY! his old archnemesis..
Or steve Carell!
mountain grammy
(26,623 posts)99th_Monkey
(19,326 posts)or VP w/ Sanders or Warren
applegrove
(118,677 posts)quakerboy
(13,920 posts)an excellent lead anchor for NBC. I hear they need someone with credibility.
harun
(11,348 posts)mountain grammy
(26,623 posts)shenmue
(38,506 posts)Not cool.
Hissyspit
(45,788 posts)onehandle
(51,122 posts)yuiyoshida
(41,831 posts)"Stewart let the news slip at the taping of todays episode, telling those in the audience that hes retiring. "
Hissyspit
(45,788 posts)rurallib
(62,420 posts)so that is the home office
Initech
(100,080 posts)madokie
(51,076 posts)I wish him well in going forward. I'd rather thank he'd stay around for ever but there is others who can pick up the baton and move on.
deutsey
(20,166 posts)He will be sorely missed, but I can understand why he'd want to move on. Go out before it gets stale and embarrassing.
to you, Jon...
99th_Monkey
(19,326 posts)KamaAina
(78,249 posts)I could make it all right if they gave me his time slot.
irisblue
(32,980 posts)He is/ was amazing.....sigh
sunnystarr
(2,638 posts)at the link...
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)grntuscarora
(1,249 posts)I always knew this day would come, but hoped it would be after I reached senility.
Thank you Mr. Stewart, for the years of insight and humor.
barbtries
(28,798 posts)first stephen colbert now john stewart?
waaaa
where will we get our news?!
calimary
(81,304 posts)If it's true, it could be that he discovered he liked film directing better.
Half-Century Man
(5,279 posts)Telcontar
(660 posts)KamaAina
(78,249 posts)mountain grammy
(26,623 posts)Gidney N Cloyd
(19,840 posts)Telcontar
(660 posts)Thank you, I needed that
Brigid
(17,621 posts)Apparently I heard wrong.
appalachiablue
(41,142 posts)Chuck Todd's political director job, but doubt it. Will to be almost zero news for the left except online & radio.
arcane1
(38,613 posts)Make it happen!!
Add Jessica Williams too!!
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)hughee99
(16,113 posts)But that HBO job sounds like a nice gig.
donco
(1,548 posts)with Franken.HHmmm...Anyone know what district Jon Stewart live in?Is anyone retiring in that district?
Sanity Claws
(21,849 posts)But don't know which district in nj.
underpants
(182,826 posts)I have been a fan since before his MTv show. Way before I was really politically aware and active. I am shocked.
Flatpicker
(894 posts)He'll be tagged to save MTP.
How about this,
Rachael Maddow taking over for Brian Williams and Jon hosting MTP.
Let some new blood get into TDS for the next generation. Much as I like Jon, 17 years is a long time at that job.
Fearless
(18,421 posts)dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
lakercub
(659 posts)but if it was me, I'd just be sick of it all. Not the show, per se, as he and the others on the show seem to agree and get along and like each other. But Stewart has been making fun of the political scene for a long time, and for awhile, it looked like things might be getting better. But the batshit crazy conservatives have done a fantastic job stalling all real progress for years and were actually rewarded by taking over congress. Making fun of Bush and the Republicans was easy, but in some ways, we're almost back to that. The conservatives again run congress and another god damn Bush is about to run for the presidency.
He's already told these jokes and satirized these conservative idiots. What more is there to do? America certainly seems to want to stay mired in bullshit, and if you're Stewart, a man who seems to genuinely care, it has to be getting too depressing for words that we seem to be coming full circle in so many ways.
Damn shame too, because I'm desperately going to need Stewart during a Hillary/Jeb multi-billion dollar election. This is a black day.
Tom_Foolery
(4,691 posts)Kalidurga
(14,177 posts)Actually I would like to see Stewart replaced with a team that could so some SNL style stuff only funny.
PatrynXX
(5,668 posts)a ton of channels nobody watches
NobodyHere
(2,810 posts)It's generally how I start my weekday mornings.
mountain grammy
(26,623 posts)Leith
(7,809 posts)This is sad. First Colbert, now Stewart. Well, they need to live their lives as they see fit. Good on both of'em. It took me a while to get over Kilby leaving.
My recommendation for his replacement? Jason Jones. He has been terrific as a correspondent. He has the right demeanor and a perfect deadpan expression when saying outrageous stuff.
Adenoid_Hynkel
(14,093 posts)He's wasted on HBO
tinymontgomery
(2,584 posts)John Oliver was outstanding while Jon was away.
mindwalker_i
(4,407 posts)She's classy, has a great personality for it, and just overall rocks!
iandhr
(6,852 posts)Stellar
(5,644 posts)I was hoping that it was not true.
ybbor
(1,554 posts)This really sucks!
First Olbermann left, so I quit watching MSNBC.
Then Colbert left, and the Nightly Show is only okay so far.
But now Mr. Stewart is leaving!
Blah! That's the taste in my mouth.
Who can possibly fill the void?
PumpkinAle
(1,210 posts)just saying.
Run Jon Run!
Samantha
(9,314 posts)MSNBC
Sam
Kire
(11,087 posts)KellyW
(598 posts)I had just watched last nights episode with Bassem Youssef. I was thinking it would be great for him to have his own CC show. And I am sorry that Larry Wilmore is not as good as I had hoped he would be.
mountain grammy
(26,623 posts)I'll give it some time.
KellyW
(598 posts)I don't think his 'keeping it 100%' segment is working. Colbert's variety of regular silly segments were something that was hugely successful.
Fuddnik
(8,846 posts)It's a travesty. I'll have to start going to bed at a reasonable hour.
Euphoria
(448 posts)Making sense of the crazy!
TeamPooka
(24,229 posts)applegrove
(118,677 posts)Carson, late night will never be the same.
Roland99
(53,342 posts)Fearless
(18,421 posts)colsohlibgal
(5,275 posts)I too would like some combo of Jason Jones and Samantha Bee. They seem to have hit a home run with Wilmore, why not also in replacing Jon?
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Egnever
(21,506 posts)Since colbert got his start on the daily show.
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Renew Deal
(81,861 posts)And much more. Carell, Corddry, Che, Colbert, Oliver, Ed Helms, Rob Riggle.
herding cats
(19,565 posts)The end of an era, one I related to and enjoyed.
question everything
(47,486 posts)He did a good job last summer when Stewart took off to direct a movie.
Must be hard to see his proteges - Colbert, Oliver, even Carell branching out for new venues.
And... I wonder. He is 52 Colbert is 51. Both shows were supposed to be aimed at young audience and I wonder whether both felt that they may become irrelevant to them.
I wish, though, that Stewart stayed for the 2016 election year.
Codeine
(25,586 posts)Much freer without the limits of basic cable.
YOHABLO
(7,358 posts).
phleshdef
(11,936 posts)I don't know if anyone has mentioned that yet... but thats what I wanna see.
Marie Marie
(9,999 posts)I hope I am wrong but I can't see anyone filling his shoes.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)Renew Deal
(81,861 posts)freshwest
(53,661 posts)...In a candid answer to a question about his political viability Monday, he lamented the "absurd" amount of resources he would need to mount a serious campaign, both in the primary and general elections.
Even if he raised $100 from 2 million people for a total of $200 million he worried it wouldn't be enough. "That is 20 percent of what the Koch brothers themselves are prepared to spend. Can you take that on? I don't know the answer. Maybe the game is over. Maybe they have bought the United States government. Maybe there is no turning back. Maybe we've gone over the edge. I don't know. I surely hope not. But we have to look at that reality."
"The gut feeling that I'm going to have to reach is whether there is that willingness to stand up and fight back. And if there's not, I don't want to run a futile campaign," he said..."I am not Mr. Bloomberg of New York and I don't have billions of dollars," he said toward the end of his talk, referring to the former New York City mayor.
But if Sanders the most ideologically pure liberal in the Senate determines a campaign for the cause is too arduous, too futile and just not worth it, he'll only hand liberals more reason to be angry...
http://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/bernie-sanders-the-billionaires-may-just-win/ar-AA9aFjI?ocid=iehp
From a DU thread here:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026205198
There were a few threads in the last few weeks such as:
If Bernie Sanders Runs For President, It Wont Be as an Independent: I will not be a spoiler
Naturally, Will you run for president in 2016? was the first question DFA Executive Director Charles Chamberlain asked Sanders. Though not definitive, his answer was enough to leave these activists hopeful.
I am giving very serious consideration to it, but before you make a decision of that magnitude, you have to make sure that you can do it well, Sanders said. So what we are doing is reaching out to folks all over this country trying to determine whether or not we can put the grassroots organization together that we need.
Sanders knows he will have to rely on grassroots mobilization to have a fighting chance at being elected, because his campaign will take on every monied interest. If I run, well be taking on the billionaire class, he said. Thats Wall Street, the drug companies, the military industrial complex.
To the dismay some idealists, Sanders rejected the idea of running for president as an independent. No matter what I do, I will not be a spoiler, Sanders said. I will not play that role in helping to elect some right-wing Republican as President of the United States.
http://inthesetimes.com/article/17572/bernie_sanders_president
From this DU thread:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=6140372
Bernie Sanders: Stand Up to the Koch Brothers...
From DU post:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1017235807
Notice him mentioning the 63% who did not vote. I posted a video just before the elections last year. He used that same percentage. He was begging people to get out and vote to defeat the GOP. But they people at the meeting didn't want to talk about that, they wanted to talk about Israel.
The meeting in NYC wasn't about that, it was about income inequality. After a while he quit speaking and said he had to go and see his wife who was waiting for him, but if there had been interest, I think he would have stayed longer.
He wasn't there to promote himself for office, but to get people to get out and vote for the Democratic Party, who he caucuses with for a reason. I can't find the video though, because I don't remember the title of it.
So he looking at things realistically and frankly I really wanted him to run on the Democratic ticket. He was on the Scarborough show saying he might run as a Democrat, and I'll bet they'd have let him in the primaries and it would have been great to see what everyone stood for on the issues he brings up.
But he can also see the apathy. The only thing that would overcome the money is massive turnout, such as Greg Palast warned us after the Bush coup. Voter turnout did it for Obama twice, jumping over many hurdles. Despite millions whose votes weren't counted and the obstruction of billionaire owned media, it worked.
Since then it's been a steady drizzle of apathy inducing memes to keep Democrats, not Republicans, out of voting. They will definitely be voting, and the GOP runs in continuous campaign mode. They don't just work on elections when the 'season' is near. They know better. They set the atmosphere all year long.
That's the writing on the wall, if he can't get enough votes. We will not win by the gun, and won't win if we decide our vote doesn't matter and don't vote, either. As 1SBM said:
And "Mission Accomplished" could be heard whispered throughout the land. (It seems)
GOP: "Government doesn't work" ... Check!
Libertarians (right and left): "Government is evil" ... Check!
Tea Party: "Government doesn't work and there is no difference between establishment republicans and establishment Democrats" ... Check!
"Liberals/Progressives": "Government is evil and there is no difference between establishment republicans and establishment Democrats" ... Check!
The media has played this narrative on a 7-day, 24-hour loop.
Result: Only 15% of the American people pay close attention to the only mechanism for change.
Nicely played, Oligarchs!
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025633467#post8
JMHO.
ramapo
(4,588 posts)Looks like he is looking for work and he has been a regular. Not sure how funny he'd be.
Kablooie
(18,634 posts)(I'll bet you saw Lawrence O'Donnell tonight too.)
Renew Deal
(81,861 posts)I guess Stewart had enough. He's given so much to comedy and delivered so much talent to the world. The only suitable replacement I can think of is John Oliver, but I doubt he can do that. This is a major loss.
AsahinaKimi
(20,776 posts)will miss him.
HomerRamone
(1,112 posts)Stewart and Colbert and Oliver do more REAL news
LiberalLovinLug
(14,174 posts)Then the mockery of those networks is nothing but the truth.
Fox News and Murdoch must be ecstatic. Comedy is the only weapon the left has against the right wing lies. They just buy out or ridicule or create a faux scandal to squeeze out any "serious" journalism, from Donahue to Olbermann. Cons lose the comedy part of the brain early on. Unless you find Victoria Jackson or Dennis Miller funny. And Stewart is a one of a kind. He really is unreplaceable. I hope they find someone who can do even half as good a job at eviscerating the MSM, especially FAUX News. I wish John Oliver was available.
ctsnowman
(1,903 posts)DeSwiss
(27,137 posts)K&R
Maybe his shots can be more telling from a higher vantage point?
riverbendviewgal
(4,253 posts)He could be straight and ask the tough questions like he did on that crossfire episode he was on. And he would be home for supper.
Elmer S. E. Dump
(5,751 posts)adigal
(7,581 posts)I don't know what goes on behind the scenes, but Stewart and Colbert have always seemed to revel in their "rivalry," going back to the Rally and before.
Same's true of Stewart and Carell. I still laugh when I think back to Carell's first appearance as a guest on TDS after leaving the "correspondent" gig there.
LadyVV
(12 posts)yuiyoshida
(41,831 posts)Politicalboi
(15,189 posts)I read this last year that he was leaving in 2015. I guess people either missed it or didn't think it would happen. It's gonna be sad for sure. That 11:00 pm hour is in need of some good comedy. Larry won't last long either.