Jon Stewart fans line up to witness ‘end of an era’

Though the Daily News says it’s not really clear whether Arby’s or Comedy Central actually produced the piece, the network placed it on its Facebook page and captioned it, “Arby’s has beef, but not with Jon Stewart”.

Last night was Jon Stewart’s penultimate episode as host of the “The Daily Show” – “It’s the one that everyone will probably forget!” – so with such little time left at the desk, Stewart turned reflective about the show’s achievements, or lack thereof.

“I feel like what we’ve built here is a monument to evisceration”, Stewart said, showing headlines of various news organizations covering his nightly take-downs.

By the time he took over The Daily Show in 1999, Stewart had a reputation as a smart, amusing and well-liked comedian. There are many, many more, and the company compiled some of the better ones to make an ad that doubled as a tribute to the satirist.

On the other hand, 31-year-old Noah Trevor will be have a very big shoe to fill in as he will be stepping in as Stewart’s replacement on the show. During that time, the show has served not only as a source of media criticism, but also as a source of news in its own right.

On the eve of Jon Stewart’s retirement from Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show”, a Hidden Remote staffer looks back at her experience with the fake news outlet, and what the show meant to a generation.

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Jones’ interview with Maziar Bahari in Iraq led to a series of events that not only inspired Bahari’s book, “Then They Came for Me”, but also the 2014 movie “Rosewater“, which Stewart wrote and directed.

Before I see the gentle yet firm gravitation pull of my home planet, New Jersey, I’d like to reflect on what we’ve built here over these past 16 years … He went on: “Our show has changed”. Many see Stewart, who started his career as a stand-up comedian in the early 1990s, as one of the most important figures in American political broadcasting. But it’s representative of how engaging and hilarious the show’s correspondent work has been in the Stewart era.

“I watched since [Craig] Kilborn was the host”, Vasquez said. While The Daily Show’s traffic numbers may not place the program’s traffic among that of news leaders on the Web like CNN or The Huffington Post, visitors to The Daily Show’s digital properties spend more time there, perhaps a reflection of the popularity of the site’s online video offerings.