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“Welcome to The Daily Show, my name is Jon Stewart.”
The comedian kicked off his return to the Comedy Central and he’s jazzed.
“Now where was I? I’m excited to be back. Why am I back, you may be asking yourselves, it’s a very reasonable question. I have committed a lot of crimes and from what I understand, talk show hosts are granted immunity. It doesn’t make a lot of sense, but take it up with the founders,” he added.
Stewart was returning to the franchise that he turned around, ostensibly replacing Trevor Noah, who left over a year ago, with a few celebrity guest hosts helping out in between.
He kicked off the show as he always used to, with some good-natured political ribbing. He also managed to get another jibe at Apple, which canceled his previous show The Problem with Jon Stewart because of his interest in talking about some difficult topics for the tech giant.
“We’re going to have so much to talk about this year; the elections, maybe we’ll talk about China, AI, something a little lighter, Israel/Palestine,” he said.
After some Super Bowl jokes, he focused in on the conspiracy involving the CIA’s effort to turn Taylor Swift and her relationship with Super Bowl winner Travis Kelce into a President Biden pysop.
“It’s almost like the right’s ridiculous obsession with politicizing every aspect of American life ruins everything,” he said.
Stewart, who came out to the taping to the sound of Bruce Springsteen’s Born To Run, then brought back one of his audience’s favorite bits: Indecision.
He soft launched some titles: Indecision 2024: American Demockracy (“we added a ‘k’, which makes it wittier”), Indecision 2024: Electile Dysfunction (“we changed one letter, are you disappointed yet?) and Indecision 2024: Antiques Roadshow.
Tonight’s guest was Zanny Minton Beddoes, editor in chief of The Economist. The episode is being simulcast CMT, Logo, MTV, MTV2, Paramount Network, Pop, and TV Land.
