Jon Stewart is coming home.
He’s going to host The Daily Show every Monday. It’s a deal not unlike Rachel Maddow’s on MSNBC.
The rest of the week he’ll be an Executive Producer and very involved with the show.
The Daily Show has struggled to find a host ever since Trevor Noah left last year.
Stewart hosted the show for years, from 1999 to 2015, until he finally stepped away — mostly, I always thought, because he lost the David Letterman spot on CBS to Stephen Colbert. Since then, Stewart has been an activist and filmmaker. An Apple TV show ran for one season.
The Daily Show airs on Comedy Central, owned by Paramount/Viacom. It’s actually the only show on that channel that I know of, so Stewart’s return — which must be expensive — shows a sign of commitment from the company. It’s particularly important in this election year, although who knows what the new Jon Stewart will be like politically — he’s seemed to have become much more conservative.
