formed earlier this month<\/a> when Paramount Skydance acquired Warner Bros. Discovery, CNN\u2019s parent company.\n <\/p>\n\n \u201cJon Stewart is a generational talent and The Daily Show continues to be one of the most influential franchises on television and a cornerstone of Comedy Central,\u201d George Cheeks, Skydance TV\u2019s co-chair and chief content officer, said in a statement. \u201cWe are excited to continue our partnership with Jon and his award winning news team.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
\n The decision to keep Stewart comes amid financial and political scrutiny of late-night television \u2014 including last year\u2019s decision by Paramount\u2019s prior management to cancel \u201cThe Late Show with Stephen Colbert.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
\n Stewart was an executive producer of his friend Colbert\u2019s show and harshly criticized the cancellation, rejecting Paramount\u2019s financial justification and accusing the company of bending the knee to the president.\n <\/p>\n
\n Viewers wondered at the time if Stewart might be next to be canceled, especially given Skydance chief David Ellison\u2019s efforts to establish close ties with the Trump administration.\n <\/p>\n
\n Ellison hosted a dinner honoring the president earlier this year, and after the Warner merger closed, Trump praised Ellison and his father, billionaire Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison, as \u201cterrific people.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
\n When Ellison was asked about Trump after the merger took effect, Ellison emphasized that his company had relationships with politicians from both parties in the US. \u201cIt\u2019s important to talk to everyone on both sides of the aisle,\u201d he said. \u201cWe don\u2019t want to politicize.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
\n Stewart originally left \u201cThe Daily Show\u201d in 2015, handing the program to Trevor Noah, who departed in December 2022. Stewart\u2019s 2024 return brought a familiar face back to the franchise during that presidential election cycle, and this new agreement keeps him in place through the next one.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jon Stewart will remain at the helm of Comedy Central\u2019s \u201cThe Daily Show\u201d through December 2028, extending his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":636176,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-636175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=636175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/636176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=636175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=636175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=636175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}