{"id":297994,"date":"2025-11-17T23:43:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T23:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/297994\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T23:43:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T23:43:07","slug":"jon-stewart-takes-aim-at-his-trump-friendly-boss-am-i-being-fired","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/297994\/","title":{"rendered":"Jon Stewart Takes Aim at His Trump-Friendly Boss: \u2018Am I Being Fired?\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jon Stewart is still poking the bear with his comments about his Trump-friendly new boss, Skydance owner David Ellison. <\/p>\n

Only weeks after sarcastically questioning<\/a> whether show hosts should \u201cget to a point where we\u2019re all just fired and hired by the same guy,\u201d Stewart took aim at Ellison once again on Sunday. \u201cWe will all end up working for just one person. And it will be an Ellison, most likely,\u201d Stewart said at 92NY\u2019s \u201cUnplugged\u201d event<\/a> in conversation with MTV cofounder Tom Freston, per The Hollywood Reporter<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"JonStewart took aim at his new boss David Ellison during an event in conversation with MTV cofounder and former Viacom CEO Tom Freston. Gary Gershoff\/Getty Images <\/p>\n

\u201cAm I being fired?\u201d Stewart quipped, \u201cTalk-show host is a very tenuous business right now\u2026 I don\u2019t know if there was a tweet that went out from the FCC right now,\u201d he added, referencing Brendan Carr\u2019s propensity for tweeting threats against Trump\u2019s late-night detractors. <\/p>\n

Stewart r<\/a>enewed his contract with Paramount<\/a>, now a Skydance company, earlier this month, locking in his post at The Daily Show for another year. <\/p>\n

However, it hasn\u2019t stopped the host from expressing his feelings about Ellison\u2019s closeness with MAGA. Since Ellison reportedly has his sights set on acquiring Warner Bros., Stewart offered up another large dose of sarcasm. <\/p>\n

\"ParamountJon Stewart joked that Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison should “have it all” when it comes to America’s media companies. PATRICK T. FALLON\/AFP via Getty Images <\/p>\n

He told Freston Skydance \u201cis a fantastic company. I cannot speak more highly of them. I think they should gobble up all of them\u2014and hand them directly to the president.\u201d <\/p>\n

Ellison installed conservative journalist Bari Weiss as the new head of CBS News after Skydance acquired Paramount\u2014raising questions about how an anti-Trump host like Stewart would fare after the takeover. The company had only months earlier axed Stephen Colbert\u2019s The Late Show within days of his accusing the company of bribing the president to approve the Skydance merger. <\/p>\n

Stewart was uncertain he\u2019d stick around at the time. \u201cThey may sell the whole f—ing place for parts, I just don\u2019t know,\u201d he said in July<\/a>, before he secured a contract renewal this month. Though he remains on air, Stewart on Sunday expressed a longing for the days of old, when media wasn\u2019t being sold for parts to Silicon Valley elites. <\/p>\n

He told Freston of his early 2000s MTV days under his leadership, \u201cYou seemed to manage from the heart, always being thoughtful,\u201d as opposed to the executives he now answers to at Paramount. \u201cI don\u2019t know that you feel the other humans in the room\u201d anymore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jon Stewart is still poking the bear with his comments about his Trump-friendly new boss, Skydance owner David…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":297995,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[88,9609,92],"class_list":{"0":"post-297994","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-jon-stewart","10":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}