{"id":103753,"date":"2025-10-27T17:02:04","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T17:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/103753\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T17:02:04","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T17:02:04","slug":"jon-stewart-is-working-on-staying-at-paramount","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/103753\/","title":{"rendered":"Jon Stewart is “working on” staying at Paramount"},"content":{"rendered":"

Creatives who have long bolstered Paramount\u2019s mountain of entertainment face a reckoning as Skydance and new CEO David Ellison<\/a> implement a divisive new path<\/a> for the company. Yellowstone creator Taylor Sheridan<\/a>, for one, is reportedly planning to jump ship for NBCUniversal. Jon Stewart, on the other hand, is \u201cworking on staying\u201d under the Paramount umbrella, though that may be easier said than done.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Daily Show host shared his plans with The New Yorker\u2018s David Reminck at the magazine\u2019s New Yorker Festival on Sunday. The Daily Show airs on Paramount-owned Comedy Central<\/a>, but Stewart\u2019s current contract with the network is up at the end of this year. While some may have expected him to take the Sheridan route\u2014the host did not mince words when it came to his disappointment in Paramount\u2019s \u201cdevastating,\u201d \u201cshameful\u201d $16 million settlement<\/a> with President Trump earlier this year\u2014Stewart argued that \u201cit\u2019s not as clear cut as all that.\u201d \u201cThey\u2019ve already done things that I\u2019m upset about. But then if I had integrity, maybe I would stand up and go, \u2018I\u2019m out,’\u201d he said, Daily Beast reports<\/a>. \u201cOr maybe the integrity thing to do would be to stay in it and keep fighting in the foxhole.\u201d<\/p>\n

Stewart has been fighting both the current administration and his own employers since Trump took office in January. In July, he accused the company<\/a> of cowing to \u201cthe fear that you and your advertisers have with $8 billion at stake\u201d by canceling<\/a> Stephen Colbert\u2019s The Late Show, a decision it claimed at the time was for \u201cpurely financial reasons.\u201d Stewart took some time in his monologue that week to remind Paramount that it is series like The Late Show and The Daily Show\u2014aka \u201cthe shows that you now seek to cancel, censor and control\u2014that contributed a \u201cnot insignificant portion of that $8 billion value\u201d in the first place. \u201cIf you believe as corporations or as networks, you can make yourselves so innocuous that you can serve a gruel so flavorless that you will never again be on the boy king\u2019s radar, why would anyone watch you and you are fucking wrong,\u201d he added.\u00a0<\/p>\n

That may not stop Paramount from trying to oust one of its most outspoken critics regardless, but as Stewart told Remnick, \u201cYou don\u2019t compromise on what you do, and you do it until they tell you to leave.\u201d He also took some time to reinforce that while late night hosts like himself, Colbert, and Jimmy Kimmel (whose show was recently suspended<\/a> by ABC following his comments on the Republican response to Charlie Kirk\u2019s death) face heightened scrutiny from the current administration, they\u2019re not the people suffering most. \u201cWe are a visible manifestation of certain things, but the victims are the people that are struggling to have any voice and are being forcibly removed from streets by hooded agents,\u201d Stewart said. \u201cThose are the victims of this administration.\u201d<\/p>\n

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