The casts of the Thursday editions of CBS Mornings and ABC’s Good Morning America could hardly contain their excitement that Jon Stewart will be returning to host Comedy Central’s The Daily Show every Monday for the rest of the year beginning February 12. CBS was admittedly “Gaga” while ABC hailed him a “trusted left-of-center conscience” for his “devoted fans.”
During a profile piece on Stewart, CBS’s Vladimir Duthiers included an interview with Chris Smith who “worked with Stewart to write an oral history of his Daily Show tenure.” Smith hyped, “By the end of Jon’s time at the show he was a major player in the political conversation, and he wants to have a voice that’s heard far and wide in that conversation.”
Duthiers recalled Stewart’s brief Apple TV+ show before adding “Now his return to The Daily Show…
