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‘Honest, critical, sane’: Jon Stewart’s welcome return to The Daily Show

The surprise once-a-week return of the ex-host, who left the late-night comedy show in 2015, showed a political satirist at the top of his fame

When Comedy Central announced that Jon Stewart would return once a week to the Daily Show desk, left hostless for more than a year since Trevor Noah stepped down and heir apparent Hasan Minhaj became embroiled in fabrication controversies, it seemed to symbolize all the wrong things. In the worst-case scenario, the failure of imagination that ushered a 61-year-old Stewart back to the fore of a drastically changed political reality could have been an unfortunate parallel to the DNC, hurtling toward a dead end as they refuse to cultivate young talent in the party and cast their lot with a dug-in gerontocracy. I have committed a lot of crimes and, from what I understand, talkshow hosts are granted immunity,” he deadpanned – he led with some light material on the Super Bowl and Taylor Swift, his focus on the irony that rightwingers opposed to her liberal agenda had to root for San Francisco, or “the People’s Communist Gay Republic of Pelosistan”.

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