Jon Stewart will return to 'The Daily Show' as its Monday host and executive producer. Show correspondents will host other nights of the week

After scuttling a months-long search for a new host, the Paramount Global network said it had enlisted Jon Stewart, who presided over the late-night mainstay’s most popular era, to serve as its host on Monday nights throughout the 2024 election cycle and to run the program. He is expected to oversee the program through 2025. Various “Daily Show” correspondents will host the program Tuesday through Thursday nights, and Jen Flanz, the current executive producer, will continue her duties on the show.

  • Ann Archy@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    I remember him talking about the Wuhan COVID research facility a stone throws away from ground zero for the outbreak. I have since also had some questions.

    • Tristaniopsis
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      11 months ago

      I mean I’m not saying that the Wuhan lab couldn’t have been the source, or that the CCP should be given even a millimetre of credit for approximating something like ‘the truth’, but I’ve heard that he went a bit unhealthily hard to wave a particular flag.

        • Tristaniopsis
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          11 months ago

          It’s a possibility because I didn’t hear it first hand, but my source was an interview I heard on a reputable podcast. TBH I can’t remember which one or who the person was. It was something like the NYT’s ‘The Daily’ or maybe Slate’s ‘What Next TBD’. I believe the person was a journalist who had been dedicated to following the COVID trail since the beginning.

          It’s not a hill I’m prepared to die on, so add your own amount of salt to taste.

          • Ann Archy@lemmy.world
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            11 months ago

            Ha ha ha I appreciate those poetics! No worry, I just know that a lot of people talk a lot about a lot of people, and I’m just trying to stay sane. A lot of people say a lot of things these days, right? That’s why sourcing is important, to me, I think.