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Out of all the famous people that Jon Stewart managed to squeeze into the first half of his final Daily Show episode, Stephen Colbert undoubtedly stole the show.

The extended 50-minute finale featured a veritable who’s who’s of “Daily Show” correspondents past, including Steve Carell, Ed Helms, John Oliver, Matt Walsh, Larry Wilmore, Rob Corddry, Josh Gad and Olivia Munn.

Newsnight presenter Emily Maitlis met Stewart for Radio Times earlier this year, and said he was the man who “managed to teach me so much about my own journalistic profession, and has done it with an nearly reckless ease at his own brilliance”. WSJ senior editor Chris...