{"id":242383,"date":"2025-10-27T00:31:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T00:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/242383\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T00:31:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T00:31:07","slug":"jon-stewart-working-on-staying-as-daily-show-host","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/242383\/","title":{"rendered":"Jon Stewart ‘Working on Staying’ as Daily Show Host"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tJon Stewart<\/a> has said he\u2019s not going anywhere<\/a>, and he\u2019s trying to put that in writing.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe comedian, whose contract to host The Daily Show<\/a> is up in December<\/a>, said \u201cwe\u2019re working on staying\u201d during a conversation with New Yorker editor David Remnick at Sunday\u2019s New Yorker Festival, when Remnick asked if the Comedy Central<\/a> host was going to \u201csign another\u201d contract.<\/p>\n

\n\tBeyond that, when asked by Remnick if he does indeed want to stay at the helm of the Comedy Central late night show he left in 2015 and returned to in early 2024, <\/a>hosting on Mondays<\/a>, Stewart agreed. If it\u2019s up to him, he wants to stay.<\/p>\n

\n\tIt was roughly a year ago when Stewart announced he was staying on at The Daily Show through December 2025<\/a>, but since then Donald Trump has returned to the White House and Paramount has merged with David Ellison\u2019s Skydance.<\/p>\n

\n\tStewart even referred to Paramount Skydance<\/a> CEO Ellison, the son of Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison, as his \u201cnew boss.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIn recent months, Stewart\u2019s Paramount colleague and former Daily Show co-worker Stephen Colbert announced that CBS\u2019 The Late Show would be ending<\/a>, and ABC\u2019s Jimmy Kimmel had his show suspended. CBS, which like Comedy Central is owned by Paramount, announced in July that Colbert\u2019s The Late Show would come to an end in May 2026. Though the network claimed it was \u201cpurely a financial decision,\u201d the move came just days after Colbert criticized Paramount for a $16 million settlement<\/a> with Trump in a lawsuit he had filed over the editing of a 60 Minutes interview with his 2024 Democratic challenger Kamala Harris. ABC\u2019s Jimmy Kimmel Live! was suspended for less than a week<\/a> after comments Kimmel made in a monologue about conservative activist Charlie Kirk\u2019s assassin went viral, FCC commissioner Brendan Carr threatened ABC\u2019s affiliate licenses over the host\u2019s remarks and at least two affiliate groups, Nexstar and Sinclair, planned to pre-empt Kimmel\u2019s show.<\/p>\n

\n\tStewart too has criticized the 60 Minutes settlement and suggested that the Late Show cancellation was connected to Colbert\u2019s critical comments about the lawsuit and President Trump. And he skewered the Kimmel suspension with a satirical, \u201cadministration-compliant\u201d edition of The Daily Show<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe fact that CBS didn\u2019t try to save their No. 1 rated late night franchise that\u2019s been on the air for over three decades is part of what\u2019s making everybody wonder: Was this \u2018purely financial\u2019? Or maybe it\u2019s the path of least resistance for your $8 billion merger to kill a show that you know rankled a fragile and vengeful president who\u2019s so insecure that he\u2019s suffering terribly from a case of chronic penis insufficiency,\u201d Stewart said on The Daily Show<\/a> days after news broke of The Late Show cancellation.<\/p>\n

\n\tHe added, \u201cIf you\u2019re trying to figure out why Stephen\u2019s show is ending, I don\u2019t think the answer can be found in some smoking gun email or phone call from Trump to CBS executives or in CBS QuickBooks spreadsheets on the financial health of late night. I think the answer is in the fear and pre-compliance that is gripping all of America\u2019s institutions at this very moment, institutions that have chosen not to fight the vengeful and vindictive actions of our \u2026 commander-in-chief. To those corporations and advertisers and universities and law firms, all of them, if you still think that bending the knee to Trump will save you, I have one thing to say [breaking into song]: I know you\u2019re scared, I know you\u2019re weary, I know your plans don\u2019t include me, but these are troubled times, so sack the fuck up!\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAnd he said at the time of his own late night future: \u201cI\u2019m not going anywhere. I think.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tParamount Skydance has also made changes at CBS News. The conglomerate has hired the former CEO of the conservative-leaning Hudson Institute, Kenneth Weinstein, as CBS News\u2019 ombudsman<\/a> and contrarian journalist Bari Weiss as the editor-in-chief of CBS News<\/a>, with Paramount acquiring her The Free Press.<\/p>\n

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