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Jon Stewart Returns to ‘The Daily Show’ as Host

The Comedy Central series will have Stewart back on Mondays, relying on the newsroom of correspondents to lead the show for the remainder of the week through the 2024 election.

“Jon Stewart is the voice of our generation, and we are honored to have him return to Comedy Central’s The Daily Show to help us all make sense of the insanity and division roiling the country as we enter the election season,” said Chris McCarthy, President/CEO of Showtime/MTV Entertainment Studios. In an interview with THR at the time, McCarthy said he’d been blown away by both the linear tune-in – up 13 percent year-over-year — and the social excitement around the procession of hosts, which included Kal Penn, Leslie Jones, Chelsea Handler, Hasan Minhaj and Sarah Silverman. He told NPR that his decision was based on the demands of the correspondent’s role on his schedule, as well as a disinterest in continuing in the position while “waiting for someone else to take the top job.” (His photo and bio remain on the Comedy Central site.)

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