Jon Stewart Says It “Would Be Lovely” To Welcome Trevor Noah Back To ‘The Daily Show’ & Ponders Upcoming Election Coverage

Jon Stewart is hoping that Trevor Noah may eventually return to The Daily Show — as long as they can share the spotlight.

“Am I being fired?” he joked in response to a reporter’s question backstage at the Emmys about whether he’d want to welcome the show’s other former host back to the desk. In all seriousness, though, he added: “That’d be lovely. The more the merrier.”

Stewart joined the rest of The Daily Show crew after their Outstanding Talk Series win at the 76th annual ceremony. He said that, while he’s grateful for all the talent on stage, he’s convinced they’re operating on borrowed time because “the understanding is some other producer who has more money than basic cable is going to say, ‘Oh, that person can do something great for us.'”

The comedian has said he will stay with the show through the presidential election, joking Sunday night that might mean he never really leaves.

“My feeling is this election will never end. So why would I? How could I leave? I won’t be allowed to leave until the election, until we’re all ground to some sort of calcified nub by the emotional moment,” he pondered.

Speaking of the emotions of this election cycle, Stewart also says his goal for The Daily Show is to “try not to get too caught up” in that as they enter the next few months.

“I think one of the things that we try and do is not feel as though we are under the spotlight of making some profound statement about the moment,” he explained. “I don’t know that we can. I think as long as…we try and stay to, I think, what we do well, we’ll try and take any situation as it comes.”

If anything, Stewart adds that he’s hoping the country will start operating under a “no shooting policy,” in the wake of yet another apparent assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump.

“Look, we live in a horrible moment where emotions [are high], and I think the one rule maybe we could all benefit from in terms of engagement is no shooting I feel like that’s what no matter how mad you are, no matter who you don’t like, who you hate, who you want to do,” he said. “I believe instituting a no shooting policy would be the way to take things down a notch.”