Jon Stewart Final Guests: Departing Talk Show Host Reveals Lineup For Final

He arrived just in time to police Fox News, which was launched in 1996 and gaining momentum, and then he gained his own momentum in the 2000s by dissecting George W. Bush and his invasion of Iraq while other news outlets were more passive.

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And then there are the unofficial protégés, the young people who – according to a number of surveys from the past decade – have learned about politics and became politicized through Stewart.

Stewart has used this accumulation of public trust in informing public opinion on issues he is personally passionate about including the government’s treatment 9/11 first responders and veterans. It’s hard to see someone like Brad Pitt or Beyoncé garnering the same criticisms for a White House visit.

While Jon Stewart will undoubtedly keep us laughing with his final guests, little else has been revealed about his finale. The fresh host gave the show a new look, a new direction and a new focus – politics. “It’s far more common to seek out sources that echo and flatter our preexisting views than those that challenge them”, wrote Andy Greenwald at ESPN’s Grantland site in February.

“That’s how I started and that’s, I’m sure, that’s how I will end”, he said.

Schumer, who stars in the summer comedy film “Trainwreck”, will appear on Monday. When Stewart recently approached fellow Comedy Central-ite Amy Schumer about possibly replacing him at the desk, where did the pair meet to hash out the details? Stewart has also left a mark on the cable-news noise he challenged, most obviously MSNBC anchors such as Rachel Maddow who rely on humor to make their arguments. You get the pattern. If you feel that a correspondent’s segment deserves some love (remember the time Colbert lost it during a report on Prince Charles?) you are free to nominate that. Comedian Trevor Noah will be taking over Stewart’s post on September 28.