{"id":154200,"date":"2025-09-19T05:09:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T05:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/154200\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T05:09:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T05:09:06","slug":"jon-stewart-to-host-the-daily-show-on-thursday-a-day-after-jimmy-kimmel-suspension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/154200\/","title":{"rendered":"Jon Stewart to host The Daily Show on Thursday, a day after Jimmy Kimmel suspension"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Jon Stewart during the 76th Primetime Emmy Awards in Los Angeles in 2024. Stewart plans to host Thursday\u2019s episode of The Daily Show, one day after ABC suspended Jimmy Kimmel\u2019s late-night show indefinitely.Jae C. Hong\/The Associated Press<\/p>\n

Jon Stewart plans to host Thursday\u2019s episode of The Daily Show, one day after ABC suspended Jimmy Kimmel\u2019s late-night show indefinitely following comments he made about the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.<\/p>\n

Stewart\u2019s featured guest will be Maria Ressa, the journalist and author of How to Stand Up to a Dictator. Ressa also shared the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize for her fight for freedom of expression in her home country of the Philippines.<\/p>\n

Stewart normally hosts only on Mondays. The Emmy winner helmed The Daily Show from 1999 through 2015, delivering sharp, satirical takes on politics and current events and interviews with newsmakers. He returned to host once a week during the run-up to the 2024 U.S. presidential election.<\/p>\n

Opinion: Jimmy Kimmel\u2019s suspension is a chilling moment for free expression in the U.S.<\/a><\/p>\n

Kimmel made several remarks about the reaction to the Kirk\u2019s killing on Jimmy Kimmel Live! on Monday and Tuesday nights, including that \u201cmany in MAGA land are working very hard to capitalize on the murder of Charlie Kirk.\u201d<\/p>\n

ABC suspended Kimmel\u2019s show after a group of ABC-affiliated stations said it would not air the show, and Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr said his agency had a strong case for holding Kimmel, ABC and network parent Walt Disney Co. accountable for spreading misinformation.<\/p>\n

Kimmel has not commented on the suspension. His supporters say Carr misread what the comic said and that nowhere did he specifically suggest that Tyler Robinson \u2013 the man Utah authorities allege fatally shot Kirk \u2013 was conservative.<\/p>\n

In July, CBS said it would cancel The Late Show With Stephen Colbert next May. The network said it shut down the decades-old TV institution for financial reasons. But the announcement came three days after Colbert criticized the settlement between President Donald Trump and Paramount Global, parent company of CBS, over a 60 Minutes story.<\/p>\n

David Letterman, Colbert\u2019s predecessor on The Late Show, lamented the cancellations.<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel bad about this, because we all see where see this is going, correct? It\u2019s managed media,\u201d Letterman said during an appearance Thursday at The Atlantic Festival 2025 in New York. \u201cIt\u2019s no good. It\u2019s silly. It\u2019s ridiculous.\u201d<\/p>\n

He added that people shouldn\u2019t be fired just because they don\u2019t \u201csuck up\u201d to what Letterman called \u201can authoritarian\u201d president.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Open this photo in gallery: Jon Stewart during the 76th Primetime Emmy Awards in Los Angeles in 2024.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":154201,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[901,888,902,879,877,903,49,48,876,895,896,891,878,875,46,549,75,295,894,887,914,880,881,893,889,890,884,904,885,909,910,912,907,911,905,908,882,898,899,714,897,906,865,61,900,892,886,883,913],"class_list":["post-154200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-alberta","tag-arts-news","tag-bc","tag-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news-video","tag-british-columbia","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canada-news","tag-canada-sports","tag-canada-sports-news","tag-canada-trafficcanada-weather","tag-canadian-breaking-news","tag-canadian-news","tag-economy","tag-education","tag-entertainment","tag-environment","tag-federal-government","tag-foreign-news","tag-globe-and-mail","tag-globe-and-mail-breaking-news","tag-globe-and-mail-canada-news","tag-government","tag-life-news","tag-lifestyle","tag-local-news","tag-manitoba","tag-national-news","tag-new-brunswick","tag-newfoundland-and-labrador","tag-northwest-territories","tag-nova-scotia","tag-nunavut","tag-ontario","tag-pei","tag-photos","tag-political-news","tag-political-opinion","tag-politics","tag-politics-news","tag-quebec","tag-sports-news","tag-technology","tag-travel","tag-trudeau","tag-us-news","tag-world-news","tag-yukon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}