After 16 years as host of The Daily Show, Jon Stewart will sit behind the “fake news” anchor chair for the last time tonight. Almost all of The Daily Show’s past correspondents including Stephen Colbert, John Oliver, Ed Helms, and Steve Carell were on hand to pay their respects. “At one point, the reunited colleagues filled the stage for a group hug”.
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Tickets were being distributed at 2 p.m. for seats in the auditorium, which normally fits 200 people, Comedy Central said, but some fans arrived much earlier.
“Please don’t do this”, Stewart pleaded as Colbert lavished him with praise for all the guidance he provided when launching comedic careers.
Stewart closed with an emotional thanks to his co-workers and the Daily Show audience, who he said kept him going on days he felt like the show wasn’t all there. “You are infuriatingly good at your job”, he added, at which point the crowd goes wild, because it’s true.
Meanwhile, as Jon leaves, it turns out Trevor Noah won’t be taking his seat behind the desk after all.
“But as you see the 100th montage where Stewart shows how all these cliches are repeated across the board, you don’t look at TV news in the same way”.
Mets fan Jon Stewart appeared on “The Daily Show” for the final time Thursday.
“Whenever something is titled freedom, family, fairness, health or America”, he said, “take a good long sniff, chances are it may have been made in a factory containing traces of (bull)”.
Fox News Channel, one of Stewart’s favorite targets through the years, was one of the institutions that Stewart had noted on Wednesday was as strong today despite his comedic barbs. But the soon-to-be-former host of The Daily Show has not ruled out returning to the world of stand-up comedy, where he started. “What a bummer”.
[Image via Comedy Central.]. “The best defense against bullshit is vigilance, so if you smell something, say something”.
It is a regular on his list of insults and under the heading of “All Publicity is Good Publicity”, Arby’s created special commercials to say farewell to a marketing source they never paid. “Nah, nah, nah”.
“Nothing ends, it’s just a continuation…a pause in the conversation”, said a touched Stewart, who called the performance his “moment of zen”.
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It’s possible that O’Reilly or some of Stewart’s other “frenemies” will show up on the finale – there was a report last month that “Daily Show” producers had invited people to “turn the tables on him”.
