After more than a year of searching, The Daily Show finally has a replacement for former host Trevor Noah.
Well, kinda.
News broke Wednesday that former host Jon Stewart would be returning to the show. For Mondays and that’s it. Still, it was a relevation from a late night institution and one of the few viable MTV Entertainment Group offerings besides “18 hours of Ridiculousness reruns.” Stewart hosted the show from 1999 to 2015, taking it from twee Weekend Update riff under Craig Kilborn to one of the most popular late night institutions in America.
He left in August 2015 and had a few ventures in the meantime; a Summerslam appearance here, a canceled Apple TV show there. Despite this, he remained best known for his social commentary behind the desk at Comedy Central.
And since Stewart is a known sports geek, he announced his return to The Daily Show in familiar fashion to anyone who watches too much college football.
Friends. After much reflection I have decided to enter the transfer portal for my last year of eligibility. Excited for the future!
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14.8 second 40#Blessed #NILBABY #TDSnation #LFGM— Jon Stewart (@jonstewart) January 24, 2024
Folks got pretty excited about this. Or mad. Or too excited. Anyway, stick around for the tweets that hopefully didn’t make too many people angry. Or maybe they did, because (gestures dismissively, sighs).
Jon Stewart coming back to host The Daily Show pic.twitter.com/ONO3IKBUu6
— Oluwajomiloju (@JomiAdeniran) January 24, 2024
Maybe you don’t know this but Jon Stewart actually had a tv show for the last few years on Apple TV and it was the worst thing in history thanks
— Ben Dreyfuss (@bendreyfuss) January 24, 2024
Jon Stewart is ready to carry election season on his back with his return to "The Daily Show."
More: https://t.co/U7acuDwtZX pic.twitter.com/9sv5bQJ9Yu
— Rolling Stone (@RollingStone) January 24, 2024
Jon Stewart is back at the #TheDailyShow.
After a year-long search for Trevor Noah‘s replacement, the longtime host and Noah predecessor has agreed to return on Monday nights through the 2024 election: https://t.co/IbmYeZe93o pic.twitter.com/RK7LHxU25m
— The Hollywood Reporter (@THR) January 24, 2024
So excited to welcome Jon back to the conversation. https://t.co/gUKj1jTXJa
— Dan Rather (@DanRather) January 24, 2024
Jon Stewart heard about his enemy/ally Seth fuckin Rollins going down hurt and decided it’s time to get serious again.
— Dan (@GolazoDan) January 24, 2024
Jon Stewart returning to the daily show during an election year is like when your best friend or older brother showed up when a bully was messing with you.
— Kevin Washington (@KevinSixx13) January 24, 2024
Jon Stewart returning to the Daily Show and Hillary Clinton getting dunked on to perdition on the same day …………. 2015 we are so back baby https://t.co/GpfdSisYOR
— Iva (@ivadixit) January 24, 2024
