Jon Stewart signs off from ‘Daily Show’ after 16 years

Stewart first hosted the show in 1999 and it was his mocking of the following year’s election which made him a star and catapulted the show, broadcast on Comedy Central, into the national consciousness. “This show doesn’t deserve an even slightly restless host, and neither do you”, he said. “It is one of the times I’ve known you to be dead wrong”, said Colbert. The raffle victor was identified as Sameer P. from Santa Clara, Calif. He received two tickets to Thursday’s finale of “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart”, according to CNN Money.

Stewart was born to do a talk show like “The Daily Show.” but he surely will go on to do more things and as much as said so in his final remarks.

“Hey Trevor, can you give me, like, 20 more minutes?”

For the first time in 16 years, Stewart doesn’t have any daily television commitments to worry about – or to look forward to.

With his show behind him, Stewart’s future plans are unclear. You are a great artist and a good man and personally, I do not know how this…

The desk and set will change, just as “The Tonight Show” was revamped for Jimmy Fallon, and “The Late Show” is being renovated for Stephen Colbert. David Letterman signed off from CBS in May, to be replaced this fall by Colbert.

The 52-year-old dissects politics, journalism and entertainment, hosting a show four nights a week that skewers politicians, the ways of the world in general and sensationalist cable news coverage in particular.

Fox News Channel chairman Roger Ailes, whose network remained intact despite Stewart’s “pulverizing” blows, said that Stewart was a brilliant comedian and nice guy who has a bitter view of the world. I didn’t always laugh, but I nearly always agreed that he’d cut through the bullshit and told it like it really was. “Occasionally we concentrate. We assume he is humorous”.

‘The show isn’t ending, we are merely taking a small pause in the conversation – which, by the way, I have hogged, ‘ said the host. We think he’s amusing.

Stewart’s finale went longer than the traditional half hour, knocking out “The Nightly Show“. Because nearly every time I’ve told someone, “Yup, that’s me”, they’ve followed it up with: “Keep fighting!” For those of us who take the craft and profession of journalism seriously, we sensed that Jon’s withering criticism came from a deep motivation to try to make us better than we sometimes were.

“A plausible interpretation of this pattern is that viewers tended to interpret his ambiguous messages in ways that reflected their own ideological orientations”, the researchers wrote.