{"id":113570,"date":"2025-11-03T19:30:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T19:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/113570\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T19:30:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T19:30:07","slug":"jon-stewart-re-ups-daily-show-deal-through-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/113570\/","title":{"rendered":"Jon Stewart Re-Ups \u2018Daily Show\u2019 Deal Through 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tJon Stewart<\/a> has re-upped his deal to executive produce The Daily Show<\/a> and host it on a part-time basis, Paramount announced on Monday.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe news was expected. Last week, at an event for the New Yorker<\/a>, Stewart said he is \u201cworking on staying\u201d with the Comedy Central late-night show. Stewart hosted the series (solo) from 1998 to 2015, and returned in 2024 as a sometimes-host and all-the-times EP.<\/p>\n

\n\tStandup comedian Trevor Noah was the Daily Show host for most of the in-between years (with some lengthy tryouts and guest takeovers on each end.)<\/p>\n

\n\tStewart\u2019s current contract is set to expire in December. In late October 2024, just ahead of the presidential election, Stewart announced he would stay on through 2025. One year into Donald Trump\u2019s second term and there is still work to be done, clearly, so Stewart is now obligated through 2026. Stewart typically hosts the Monday night Daily Show episode, and the show\u2019s correspondents, including Ronny Chieng, Josh Johnson, Jordan Klepper, Michael Kosta and Desi Lydic, rotate the other nights.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cJon Stewart continues to elevate the genre he created. His return is an ongoing commitment to the incisive comedy and sharp commentary that define\u00a0The Daily Show,\u201d said Ari Pearce, head of Comedy Central. \u201cThe renewal is a win for audiences, for Comedy Central and for all our programming partners.\u00a0 We\u2019re proud to support Jon and the extraordinary news team.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tJen Flanz is Daily Show showrunner. She and Stewart\u2019s long-time manager James \u201cBaby Doll\u201d Dixon executive produce (alongside Stewart).<\/p>\n

\n\tStewart\u2019s continuation beyond his current one-year contract was not always a definite considering what went down months ago with his buddy, former correspondent and later late-night lead-out Stephen Colbert. Colbert\u2019s days at CBS are numbered; Comedy Central and CBS are both owned by Paramount Skydance.<\/p>\n

\n\tColbert\u2019s canceled Late Show will wrap its run in May 2026. It is pretty widely believed that a major factor in the decision to cancel The Late Show<\/a> was Colbert\u2019s contentious coverage of Trump, which dates way back to his Daily Show and Colbert Report days. David Ellison needed Trump\u2019s governmental agencies to approve the merger between his Skydance corporation and Paramount Global, and this could have been one way to curry favor with the administration. The theory is further bolstered by the recent CBS News shakeup(s)<\/a> under Ellison \u2014 Trump had beef there as well.<\/p>\n

\n\tOn Sunday\u2019s 60 Minutes, Trump praised the new direction<\/a> of the newsmagazine program and CBS in general.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jon Stewart has re-upped his deal to executive produce The Daily Show and host it on a part-time…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113571,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[146,85,46,22036,22075],"class_list":{"0":"post-113570","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-israel","11":"tag-jon-stewart","12":"tag-the-daily-show"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}