Steve Carrell made surprise appearance on last Daily Show

She had been in the audience four times before, but felt that Stewart’s last week was something special. That is why “The Daily Show” for German comedians was like a free, hands-on online seminar in how to fuse hard politics with humor in a way that appeals to more than a handful of policy wonks.

I’ll miss this guy- a lot – because he was a welcome dose of end-of-the-day levity and sanity, in an insane world. “Have I caused this?” This may sound trite, but especially during the gloomy years of the Bush/Cheney presidency “The Daily Show” was like a small ray of sunshine emanating from New York.

Fellow comic Louis C.K., his guest Wednesday, noted that Stewart was able to keep his show fresh and amusing for a long time, keeping up with the world’s changes. Instead, by researching issues thoroughly, you literally proved their arguments wrong and offered alternatives, thereby providing an antidote to Washington and elevating political comedy to a new level at the same time.

A woman looks at a poster that was distributed by employees of the “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart” as they wait in line to enter for the show’s final taping, Thursday, August 6, 2015, in New York. I spent three decades-plus doing network news but if you ask me today, what do I pay more attention to, John Oliver and Jon Stewart or the evening newscast, it’s not close.

TV news cliches “People used to watch some of this goofy stuff that goes on in TV news and didn’t think anything about it”, Mr Thompson said.

Twenty-one-year-old Jessica Vitovitch was anxiously waiting to see if she’d get a seat.

He’d been away from the show for more than a decade, but Carell said that “becoming an global superstar is just something I did while awaiting my next assignment”.

But the episode wouldn’t have been complete without some sort of profound and provocative moment of honest commentary, which Stewart delivered in a powerful message for his long-time fans. The Daily Show airs at 11 p.m. on the U.S. East Coast. Colbert, ended “The Colbert Report” in December, and Letterman signed off in May.

“He’s been after us for years”, Ailes told The Hollywood Reporter.

“He’s been after us for years”, Ailes said. We think he’s amusing.

“We never took it seriously”, he asserted, “and he never made a dent in us”.

With thousands of words in tributes being written on his behalf the past few weeks, Stewart hasn’t granted exit interviews.

President Barack Obama has shared the screen with Stewart seven times, most recently last month, when he joked he would ban Stewart from leaving.

“We’ve had an unendurable pain”, Stewart said during the emotional broadcast. We just thought, ‘My God!