Funny Jon Stewart to return to ‘The Daily Show’ as a host and executive producer

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Im glad, I kinda wish he'd return full time (well, at least like twice a week, and have Roy Wood Jr do the other two days).
 
This feels like it could end like Michael Jordan on the Wizards. Every once in a while you will be reminded why he was the goat, but most of the time it is just meh.
 
andalusian said:
This feels like it could end like Michael Jordan on the Wizards. Every once in a while you will be reminded why he was the goat, but most of the time it is just meh.
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Jon Stewart's Coaching Comedy Tree is insane.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_The_Daily_Show_correspondents

Unlike Jordan, Stewart actually developed and shepherded talent. What Second City in Canada did for comedy in the 70s, 80s, and 90s, the Jon Stewart-led Daily Show did for the 2000s until now. If you had to pick one person to take on a Loren Micheal-type role of executive producer for the next generation of comedy talent I think that list starts and ends with Jon Stewart.
 
SlyPokerDog said:
Jon Stewart's Coaching Comedy Tree is insane.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_The_Daily_Show_correspondents

Unlike Jordan, Stewart actually developed and shepherded talent. What Second City in Canada did for comedy in the 70s, 80s, and 90s, the Jon Stewart-led Daily Show did for the 2000s until now. If you had to pick one person to take on a Loren Micheal-type role of executive producer for the next generation of comedy talent I think that list starts and ends with Jon Stewart.
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I hope you are right, but in reality, Stewart last developed talent more than a decade ago. Nothing really came out of his Apple TV series, it was basically trying to do a "Last week tonight" with guests which did not really work all that great. He has been mostly out of the pressure cooker of this type of show for a long long time and did not return in his prime. Add the fact that a big reason TDS with Stewart was such a great success was because he was a hip / edgy alternative to the very conservative news and daily late night alternatives at the time that was available on a mass platform (cable). He is now returning to a platform that is ripe for consolidation because it lost it's luster (cable cutting, streaming) among a world that has many edgier / alternative sources with mass access (podcasts, streaming, youtube).

Feels like a money grab from Steward / not knowing what to do from Comedy Central situation to me. I have low hopes, I hope to be wrong.
 
andalusian said:
I hope you are right, but in reality, Stewart last developed talent more than a decade ago. Nothing really came out of his Apple TV series, it was basically trying to do a "Last week tonight" with guests which did not really work all that great. He has been mostly out of the pressure cooker of this type of show for a long long time and did not return in his prime. Add the fact that a big reason TDS with Stewart was such a great success was because he was a hip / edgy alternative to the very conservative news and daily late night alternatives at the time that was available on a mass platform (cable). He is now returning to a platform that is ripe for consolidation because it lost it's luster (cable cutting, streaming) among a world that has many edgier / alternative sources with mass access (podcasts, streaming, youtube).

Feels like a money grab from Steward / not knowing what to do from Comedy Central situation to me. I have low hopes, I hope to be wrong.
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Here are some of the shows Lorne Micheals did the 5 years he was away from SNL.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088804/?ref_=nm_flmg_t_178_prd

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087817/?ref_=nm_flmg_t_179_prd

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086768/?ref_=nm_flmg_t_180_prd

He goes back to SNL and 40 years later here we are.
 
SlyPokerDog said:
Here are some of the shows Lorne Micheals did the 5 years he was away from SNL.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088804/?ref_=nm_flmg_t_178_prd

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087817/?ref_=nm_flmg_t_179_prd

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086768/?ref_=nm_flmg_t_180_prd

He goes back to SNL and 40 years later here we are.
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Fair, but it is not a daily show with the kind of churn that these require, and it is much more of an ensemble show. A daily late-night show is a lot less than that.

Also, LM was 41 when he came back to SNL, Stewart is 61 now.

One of these things is not like the other.
 
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