The Daily Show With Jon Stewart - General Discussion

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This topic replaces the old The Daily Show With Jon Stewart forum which has been vaulted at the location below:  http://forums.previously.tv/forum/156-the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-v/

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[Annber03]

Very cool to see him still working so hard on this issue and keeping it in the news. I'm glad he chewed out Congress for this. Amazing how we seem to have all the money in the world when it comes to funding wars, new weapons, and other unnecessary stuff like that, but when it comes to things that actually benefit and help people in this country, suddenly the funds "just aren't there". 

Anywho, yeah. Good on him for speaking out. 

[DrSparkles]

He fucking kicked ASS yesterday. I love him so very much.

[TVSpectator]

7 hours ago, DrSparkles said:

He fucking kicked ASS yesterday. I love him so very much.

I heard what he did and it makes me happy that he did do it.

[Bastet]

Variety put out a list of the 100 greatest TV shows of all time, and ranked this #77; I like the bolded lines in particular; his version of the show was truly something singular:

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As Edward R. Murrow and Walter Cronkite were to the mid-20th century, so was Jon Stewart’s “Daily Show” to the new millennium: a singular voice millions turned to every night to make sense of the chaos and nonsense of the day’s events. It’s just that Stewart spiked his journalism — and yes, despite his many protestations on this point, Stewart was doing journalism — with comedy, satire and even ridicule, if the subject demanded it. A murderer’s row of talent (Stephen Colbert, Steve Carell, Samantha Bee, John Oliver) emerged under his tenure and replicated many of his methods, and Trevor Noah took the reins admirably just as Trumpism began to rise. But no one has been able to match the force and clarity of Stewart’s 16-year run — not even Stewart himself.