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“All Must Pay Tribute To The King”: Jon Stewart Weighs Into Paramount-Skydance Merger & ‘60 Minutes’ Furor


“All Must Pay Tribute To The King” said the host of The Daily Show.

'The Daily Show' with Jon StewartComedy Central Jon Stewart has become the latest late-night host to weigh in on the possibility that Paramount Global, which owns The Daily Show, will settle President Donald Trump’s $20B lawsuit against CBS News over the way that 60 Minutes edited an interview with Kamala Harris. It comes after Stewart’s former colleague Stephen Colbert brought up the issue on CBS’ The Late Show, highlighting “scurrilous accusations that Paramount is engaged in corporate malfeasance”. On the podcast, Stewart, who returned to The Daily Show last year one night a week, also talked about the state of late-night television and praised hosts such as Seth Meyers and John Mulaney.

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