Jon Stewart announces final guests
Last week, Politico reported that President Obama had summoned “Daily Show” host Jon Stewart to the White House twice during his presidency, for what the magazine called “secret meetings”.
Stewart’s final show on Thursday, August 6, is shrouded in secrecy, much like the final nights for “The Colbert Report” and “Late Show With David Letterman”.
“Although the show might appear flip and amusing on the surface”, Kenney said, “there is a great deal of preparation and research that goes on behind-the-scenes”.
“I learned the difference between impersonating a comedian and being a comedian”, Stewart said. “I placed on my helmet, I’m going and mine turds. We opened with the traditional Saul Alinsky prayer, supped on the blood of the righteous and took turns f***ing a replica of the Reagan eye socket”, says Stewart.
Its U.S. audience tripled, and The Daily Show started winning awards (18 Emmys to date, and a pair of Peabody Awards), while at the same time forcing America’s political class and news-network sector to pay attention.
“The Daily Show was based on an emerging 24 hour news cycle, that’s everything it was”. Do you know where you’ll be watching the big show next week? In the wake of Noah’s hiring, Comedy Central president Michele Ganeless said that the cable channel opted for Noah out of a desire “to find someone who brings something really exciting and new and different”.
Since The Daily Show is very popular among teens and people in their 20s and 30s, it was a good way of promoting the WWE Champion by having him interact with one of the most popular people on television.
Stewart, after all, wants to get it right.
“Our assembly each morning is an specific dialogue of what is going on on on the earth”, he declared in a 2004 interview with The Related Press.
“The Daily Show” under Stewart thus made a credible argument that, for both journalism and public affairs, bogus is the new real, leaving fact and fantasy interchangeable.
Still, the South African comic didn’t mince words when it came to expressing his gratitude towards Stewart, whose influence helped land Noah the job. Whatever he’s been mining for his more than 16 years, he made the most of it.