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How ‘The Daily Show’ Is Thriving Post-Trevor Noah With Return Of Jon Stewart, Revolving Hosts And An Election Season – Contenders TV: Doc + Unscripted
The Daily Show producers and Comedy Central couldn't settle on a new host, but Jon Stewart and revolving hosts have boosted the ratings.
Unable to land on the perfect choice, producers and Comedy Central settled on Stewart returning and spreading the wealth host-wise to carry the series through this election year. Discussing the evolution at Deadline’s Contenders TV: Documentary + Unscripted event were longtime executive producer/showrunner/writer Jen Flanz, co-executive producer/writer Zhubin Parang, and former writer and newly named correspondent Josh Johnson. “Whereas when I was writing, I was more thinking about how best to express the idea and everything, and even in rewrites and with notes, how to both like fulfill what was being asked of me by whoever was the person who had to say it while also giving some ground to however their comedic voice works and opening up a sort of lane where we’re saying what they want to say and we’re saying it how they want to say it.
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