What do you think of this great guy?
This show had been amazing for last so many years. I dont think any similar show can come even closer to this one John Stewart will remain be remembered as a legend and an icon in many ways.
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The minute I say I’m not going to do The Daily Show] anymore, I will miss it like crazy," Jon Stewart says.
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Jon Stewart hosts his last episode of Comedy Central’s The Daily Show on Thursday, wrapping up a 16-year run in which he turned the once-obscure fake news show into a cultural phenomenon.
The Daily Show eviscerated politicians and media elites with video montages and Stewart’s biting commentary, but in 2010 Stewart told Fresh Air’s Terry Gross that the show made him more “emotional” than political.
“The [more] you spend time with the political and the media process, the less political you become and the more viscerally upset you become at corruption,” Stewart said.
The host was known for calling out politicians and media personalities who he felt were being disingenuous. In 2004, heappeared on CNN’s *Crossfire *and implored the show’s hosts to “stop hurting America.”
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Jon Stewart and Ben Karlin, executive producer of *The Daily Show from 2004 to 2006, won Emmy Awards for their work onthe show in 2005.
He told Gross that he was bothered less by politicians than by the media: “I feel like politicians, there’s a certain inherent — the way I always explain it is when you go to the zoo and a monkey throws its feces, it’s a monkey. But when the zookeeper is standing right there and he doesn’t say, ‘Bad monkey!’ — somebody’s got to be the zookeeper. I tend to feel much more strongly about the abdication of responsibility by the media than by political advocates.”
When asked in a 2014 Fresh Air interview about stepping down from The Daily Show, Stewart said, “I don’t know that there will ever be anything that I will ever be as well-suited for as this show. I hate to even get maudlin or weepy about it, but it so far exceeded my expectations of what this business would be like for me.”
Fresh Air pays tribute to Stewart’s tenure on The Daily Show with pieces from four different interviews since 2000, including a 2006 conversation with former Daily Show executive producer Ben Karlin, which you can listen to in the audio link above.*
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