Is Jon Stewart leaving The Daily Show successful the aftermath of his 23rd Emmy win?
Not surprisingly, that question was connected the minds of reporters pursuing past night’s ceremony.
Stewart and The Daily Show made past with their win, but viewers person agelong expected that the beloved comic would erstwhile again measurement down pursuing the November elections.
So adjacent though his instrumentality to the host’s seat has been wildly successful, determination are fears that it mightiness beryllium short-lived.
Is Jon Stewart Leaving The Daily Show?
In January, we learned that Stewart would beryllium returning to The Daily Show up of predetermination play — but with a twist.
The 61-year-old drama fable would big lone connected Mondays, with the gig being opened up to different TDS personalities during the remainder of the week.
Now, with a palmy tally nether his loop and different Emmy for his trophy case, is Stewart inactive readying to battalion it successful aft the election?
On Sunday, Variety asked Stewart point-blank if helium inactive plans to permission the amusement for a 2nd time.
Stewart Plays It Safe
“Well, my feeling is this predetermination volition ne'er end. So wherefore would I? How could I leave? I won’t beryllium allowed to permission until the election, until we’re each crushed to immoderate benignant of calcified nubs,” helium replied.
“We’re looking guardant to it being awful.”
Yeah, helium benignant of avoided giving a definitive answer, but it sounds similar Stewart is enjoying himself excessively overmuch to halt now.
“I emotion the household of collaborators that we’ve built up implicit each these years,” helium added portion speaking backstage astatine the Emmys.
“And you know, the bully portion astir contiguous is coming retired present and benignant of seeing everybody getting backmost unneurotic with them.”
Stewart’s Daily Show collaborators joined him connected signifier erstwhile the amusement won for champion speech series.
And helium took the accidental to present showrunner Jen Flanz to the audience.
“I emotion this iteration of The Daily Show,” Flanz remarked backstage.
“I’m precise blessed to person been present done truthful overmuch Daily Show history, but particularly done this infinitesimal wherever we get to person truthful galore antithetic voices.”
Flanz has been with the amusement since 1998. And portion she did not remark connected the aboriginal of TDS, it seems that everyone progressive is anxious to instrumentality with the existent arrangement.
Variety reports that Comedy Central and Paramount Global look to beryllium blessed with the “hybrid approach” which is apt to proceed done 2025.
That’s a bully happening for galore reasons.
After all, nary matter what happens successful November, determination are definite to beryllium immoderate chaotic times ahead. And we’ll beryllium blessed to person Jon Stewart offering his unsocial marque of commentary.