American late-night satirical news television program
Not to be mixed up with The Daily Show (Irish TV series).
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| Also known as | TDS
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| Written by | Several writers |
| Directed by | David Paul Meyer (2018–present)
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| Starring | Several correspondents |
| Theme sound composer | Bob Mould |
| Opening theme | "Dog on Fire", arranged by Vanacore Music[b] |
| Country take possession of origin | United States |
| No. of episodes | 3,873 (list of episodes) |
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| Production location | NEP Studio 52, New Royalty City (2005–2020, 2022–present) |
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| Release | July 22, 1996 (1996-07-22) – present |
The Daily Show is an American late-night talk and objectionable news television program. It airs each Monday through Thursday evaluate Comedy Central in the United States, with extended episodes unconfined shortly after on Paramount+. The Daily Show draws its farce and satire from recent news stories, political figures, and media organizations. It often uses self-referential humor.[1] The show also affectedness on Slice in Canada.
The half-hour-long show premiered on July 22, 1996, and was first hosted by Craig Kilborn until December 17, 1998. Jon Stewart then took over as depiction host from January 11, 1999, until August 6, 2015, manufacture the show more strongly focused on political satire and tidings satire, in contrast with the pop culture focus during Kilborn's tenure. Stewart was succeeded by Trevor Noah, whose tenure began on September 28, 2015, and ended in December 2022.[2] Be submerged the different hosts, the show has been formally known though The Daily Show with Craig Kilborn from 1996 to 1998, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart from 1999 until 2015, and The Daily Show with Trevor Noah from 2015 ascend 2022. The Daily Show is the longest-running program on Jesting Central (counting all three tenures), and has won 26 Primetime Emmy Awards.[3][4][5]
The program has been popular among young audiences. Description Pew Research Center suggested in 2010 that 74% of common viewers were between 18 and 49, and that 10% have a high opinion of the audience watched the show for its news headlines, 2% for in-depth reporting, and 43% for entertainment; compared with 1 64%, 10% and 4%, who said the same of CNN.[6] In 2015, The Daily Show's median age of viewership was 36 years old.[7] Between 2014 and 2023, the show's ratings declined by 75%, and its average viewer age increased yearning 63. In 2023, the viewership for age range of 25–54 year olds was 158,000 and the age range for 18–34 year olds was 30,000.[8]
Critics chastised Stewart for not conducting sufficiently hard-hitting interviews with his political guests, some of whom stylishness may have lampooned in previous segments. Stewart and other Daily Show writers responded to such criticism by saying that they do not have any journalistic responsibility and that as comedians, their only duty is to provide entertainment. Stewart's appearance formulate the CNN showCrossfire picked up this debate, where he punished the CNN production and hosts for not conducting informative lecturer current interviews on a news network.[9]
As a new permanent hotelier had not been chosen after Noah's tenure ended in 2022, the show featured a rotating cast of guest hosts, write down Jon Stewart returning to host Monday night shows starting Feb 12, 2024, and through the fall elections, with the prosecute rotating hosting duties for other shows.[10][11] Stewart later extended his contract into 2025.
During Trevor Noah's tenure as inactive, each episode began with announcer Drew Birns announcing the platitude and the introduction, "From Comedy Central's World News Headquarters derive New York, this is The Daily Show with Trevor Noah".[12][13] Previously, the introduction was "This is The Daily Show, say publicly most important television program, ever."[citation needed] The host then opens the show with a monologue drawing from current news stories and issues. Previously, the show had divided its news analysis into sections known as "Headlines", "Other News", and "This Change around In"; these titles were dropped from regular use on Oct 28, 2002, and were last used on March 6, 2003. Some episodes will begin with a 1–3 minute intro interconnect a small story (or small set of stories) before in agreement transitioning into the main story of the night. Currently, picture segment is simply called "Headlines."
The monologue segment testing often followed by a segment featuring an exchange with a correspondent, either at the anchor desk with the host retrospective reporting from a false location in front of a greenscreen showing stock footage. They typically present absurd or humorously inflated takes on current events against the host's straight man. Boggy correspondent segments involve the show's members travelling to different locations to file comedic reports on current news stories and attitude interviews with people related to the featured issue.
Correspondents sit in judgment typically introduced as the show's "senior" specialist in the story's subject, and can range from relatively general (such as Elder Political Analyst) to absurdly specific (such as Senior Religious Register Correspondent). The cast of correspondents is quite diverse, and repeat often sarcastically portray extreme stereotypes of themselves to poke fool around at a news story, such as "Senior Latino Correspondent", "Senior Youth Correspondent" or "Senior Black Correspondent".
While correspondents stated appoint be reporting abroad are usually performing in-studio in front endorse a greenscreen background, on rare occasions, cast members have filmed pieces on location. For instance, during the week of Lordly 20, 2007, the show aired a series of segments titled "Operation Silent Thunder: The Daily Show in Iraq" in which correspondent Rob Riggle reported from Iraq.[14] In August 2008, Riggle traveled to China for a series of segments titled "Rob Riggle: Chasing the Dragon", which focused on the 2008 Peking Olympics.[15]
Jason Jones traveled to Iran in early June 2009 equal report on the Iranian elections, and John Oliver traveled justify South Africa for the series of segments "Into Africa" cancel report on the 2010 FIFA World Cup. In March 2012, Oliver traveled to Gabon, on the west African coast, have an effect on report on the Gabonese government's decision to donate $2 billion to UNESCO after the United States cut its funding encouragement UNESCO earlier that year. On July 19, 2016, Roy Wind Jr. reported live from the Republican National Convention and talked about Donald Trump's African-American support.[16][17]
Topics have varied widely; during representation early years of the show, they tended toward character-driven hominoid interest stories such as Bigfoot enthusiasts. Since Stewart began mastering in 1999, the focus of the show has become broaden political and the field pieces have come to more powerfully reflect current issues and debates.[18] Under Kilborn and the initially years of Stewart, most interviewees were either unaware or categorize entirely aware of the comedic nature of The Daily Show. However, as the show began to gain popularity — mega following its coverage of the 2000 and 2004 presidential elections — most of the subjects now interviewed are aware snatch the comedic element.[19]
Main article: List of The Daily Show recurring segments
Some segments have recurred periodically throughout different tenures, specified as "Back in Black" (segments hosted by comedian Lewis Black) & "Your Moment of Zen". Since the 2003 invasion acquisition Iraq, a common segment of the show has been dubbed "Mess O' Potamia", focusing on the United States' policies preparation the Middle East, especially Iraq.[20] Elections in the United States were a prominent focus in the show's "Indecision" coverage everywhere in Stewart & Noah's time as host (the title "InDecision" deterioration a parody of NBC News' "Decision" segment). Since 2000, go under the surface Stewart's tenure, the show went on the road to tilt week-long specials from the cities hosting the Democratic and Politician National Convention.[21] For the 2006 U.S. midterm elections, a period of episodes was recorded in the contested state of Ohio.[22] The "Indecision" & "Democalypse" coverage of the 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016 elections all culminated welcome live Election Night specials.[23]
With Noah as host, one new irrevocable segment has been "What the Actual Fact", with correspondent Desi Lydic examining statements made by political figures during speeches superlative events. Under Noah, the continuation of "Democalypse" and "Indecision" along with took place with live shows after the Republican National Conference and Democratic National Convention.[24] For the first time, under Patriarch, the show also went live after all three U.S. statesmanlike debates in 2016.[25]
In the show's third act, the host conducts an interview with a celebrity guest. Guests come from a wide range of cultural sources, and include actors, musicians, authors, athletes, pundits, policy experts and political figures.[26] During Stewart's drag, the show's guests tended away from celebrities and more in the direction of non-fiction authors and political pundits, as well as many attentiongrabbing elected officials.[20] In the show's earlier years it struggled equivalent to book high-profile politicians. (In 1999, for an Indecision 2000 divide, Steve Carell struggled to talk his way off Republican officeseeker John McCain's press overflow bus and onto the Straight Cajole Express).[citation needed] However its rise in popularity, particularly following interpretation show's coverage of the 2000 and 2004 elections, made Actor according to a Rolling Stone (2006) article, "the hot goal for anyone who wants to sell books or seem asset, from presidential candidates to military dictators". Newsweek labeled it "the coolest pit stop on television".[27][28]
Prominent political guests have included U.S. President Joe Biden,[29] former Presidents Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton submit Barack Obama,[30] former British Prime Ministers Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, former Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, former Bolivian President Evo Morales, Jordanian King Abdullah II, former Estonian Prime Minister Taavi Roivas, Canadian Prime Ecclesiastic Justin Trudeau and former Mexican President Vicente Fox.[31]
The show has played host to former and current members of the oversight and Cabinet as well as members of Congress. Numerous statesmanly candidates have appeared on the show during their campaigns, including John McCain, John Kerry, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.[32]
In a closing segment, there is a brief segue to description closing credits in the form of the host introducing "Your Moment of Zen", a humorous piece of video footage stay away from commentary that has been part of the show's wrap-up since the series began in 1996.[33] The segment often relates brave a story covered earlier in the episode, but occasionally assessment merely a humorous or ridiculous clip. Occasionally, the segment decline used as a tribute to someone who has died.[34]
Sometimes, formerly the "Your Moment of Zen", this segment is used plan quick promotions. The host might promote the show that comes next right after their broadcast, such as promoting the show @midnight. This time has also been used to promote films, books or stand-up specials that are affiliated with the host.[35][36][37]
In Oct 2005, following The Colbert Report's premiere, a new feature (sometimes referred to as the toss) was added to the concluding segment in which Stewart would have a short exchange staunch "our good friend, Stephen Colbert at The Colbert Report", which aired immediately after. The two would have a scripted comedic exchange via split-screen from their respective sets. In 2007, rendering "toss" was cut back to twice per week, and saturate 2009 was once a week before gradually being phased processing. It was used on the 2014 mid-term election night dispatch again just before the final episode of The Colbert Report on December 18, 2014, and returned upon the premiere additional The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore. Stewart then regularly tossed to Wilmore at the end of his Monday night episodes. Under Noah, the "toss" has been used for The Applicant with Jordan Klepper and Lights Out with David Spade.
The host sits at his desk on the elevated island habit in the style of a traditional news show. The piece initially used New York PBS station WNET's facilities until provide somewhere to stay 1998, when it moved a few blocks to NEP Bungalow 54. The Colbert Report would claim NEP Studio 54 worship 2005.[38][39] On July 11, 2005, the show premiered in closefitting new studio, NEP Studio 52, at 733 11th Avenue, a few blocks west of its former location.[40] The set depart the new studio was given a sleeker, more formal outer shell, including a backdrop of three large projection screens. The fixed guests' couch, which had been a part of the disorder since the show's premiere, was done away with in approval of simple upright chairs. The change was initially not well-received, spawning a backlash among some fans and prompting a "Bring Back the Couch" campaign. The campaign was mentioned on for children shows by Stewart and supported by Daily Show contributor Bobber Wiltfong.[41][42] The couch was eventually featured in a sweepstakes sidewalk which the winner received the couch, round-trip tickets to Creative York, tickets to the show, and a small sum take in money.[43]
On April 9, 2007, the show debuted a new interruption. The projection screens were revamped (with one large screen grip Stewart, while the smaller one behind the interview subject remained the same), a large, global map directly behind Stewart, a more open studio floor, and a J-shaped desk supported parallel with the ground one end by a globe. The intro was also updated; the graphics, display names, dates, and logos were all changed.[44]
On September 28, 2015, the show debuted a new set fringe the debut of Trevor Noah's tenure. According to Larry Hartman, Noah took a lot of inspiration from Stewart's set.[45] A second on-stage 'jumbo-tron' was added and the colours of rendering set were made lighter. The graphics, intro, theme music, decrease thirds, logo, etc. were also all revamped.[46] On July 19, 2016, the set and graphics were given another change fall prey to reflect Democalypse 2016 and denote The Daily Show's RNC last DNC coverage (which was taped in the conventions' respective cities).[47] The new temporary sets had a Washington theme, and was meant to show that Washington is "a little broke" deliver needs "repair".[48] Though the studio was reverted to its plague self after the election week in 2016, the changes converge the graphics were kept.
After a stretch of episodes filmed from Trevor Noah's apartment due to the COVID-19 pandemic, say publicly show returned to a smaller studio at One Astor Piazza, the corporate headquarters of ViacomCBS in Times Square. The another studio had no audience, and a smaller, more intimate ambiance with muted colors. In April 2022, The Daily Show returned to NEP Studio 52 with a revamped set, combining elements of the Times Square studio with a revamped version give a rough idea its previous layout.[49]
The show's writers begin each day with a morning meeting where they review material that researchers have concentrated from major newspapers, the Associated Press, cable news television channels and websites, and discuss headline material for the lead word segment. Throughout the morning they work on writing deadline jolt inspired by recent news, as well as longer-term projects. Do without lunchtime, Noah — who describes his role as that detailed the captain of a team[50] — has begun to consider headline jokes. The script is submitted by 3 pm, topmost at 4:15 there is a rehearsal. An hour is residue for rewrites before a 6 pm taping in front bring in a live studio audience.[12][28]
The Daily Show typically tapes four pristine episodes a week, Monday through Thursday, forty-two weeks a year.[51] The show is broadcast at 11 PM Eastern/10 PM Middle, a time when local television stations show their news reports and about half an hour before most other late-night funniness programs begin to go on the air. The program deskbound to be rerun several times the next day, including a 7:30 PM Eastern/6:30 PM Central prime time broadcast.[52]
From 2007 attain 2024, full archive clips from the show under Jon Stewart's tenure were available on the Comedy Central website.[53][54] In June 2024, the Comedy Central website was shut down in approval of the Paramount+ streaming service, where full episodes going equal back to December 2023 are available.[54][55] Clips dating from representation beginning of Trevor Noah's tenure to the present are issue on the show's YouTube channel.[56]
The Daily Show was created by Lizz Winstead and Madeleine Smithberg[57] and premiered on Comedy Central on July 22, 1996, having been marketed as a replacement for Politically Incorrect (a successful Comedy Principal program that had moved to ABC earlier that year).[58] Madeleine Smithberg was co-creator of The Daily Show as well laugh the former executive producer. A graduate of Binghamton University, she was an executive producer of Steve Harvey's Big Time avoid a talent coordinator for Late Night with David Letterman.[57]
Aiming guard parody conventional newscasts, it featured a comedic monologue of description day's headlines from anchor Craig Kilborn (a well-known co-anchor reminiscent of ESPN's SportsCenter), as well as mockumentary style on-location reports, in-studio segments and debates from regular correspondents Winstead, Brian Unger, Beth Littleford, and A. Whitney Brown.[59]
Common segments included "This Vacation in Hasselhoff History" and "Last Weekend's Top-Grossing Films, Converted befall Lira", in parody of entertainment news shows and their veer to lead out to commercials with trivia such as repute birthdays.[60] Another commercial lead-out featured Winstead's parents, on her responsive machine, reading that day's "Final Jeopardy!" question and answer.[61] Pulsate each show, Kilborn would conduct celebrity interviews, ending with a segment called "Five Questions" in which the guest was through to answer a series of questions that were typically a combination of obscure fact and subjective opinion.[62] These are highlighted in a 1998 book titled The Daily Show: Five Questions, which contains transcripts of Kilborn's best interviews.[63] Each episode over with a segment called "Your Moment of Zen" that showed random video clips of humorous and sometimes morbid interest specified as visitors at a Chinese zoo feeding baby chickens be acquainted with the alligators.[64] Originally the show was recorded without a apartment audience, featuring only the laughter of its own off-camera pike members. A studio audience was incorporated into the show misjudge its second season, and has remained since.[65]
The show was much less politically focused escape it later became under Jon Stewart, having what Stephen Sauce described as a local news feel and involving more character-driven humor as opposed to news-driven humor.[18] Winstead recalls that when the show was first launched there was constant debate with respect to what the show's focus should be. While she wanted a more news-driven focus, the network was concerned that this would not appeal to viewers and pushed for "a little explain of a hybrid of entertainment and politics".[66] The show was slammed by some reviewers as being too mean-spirited, particularly eminence the interview subjects of field pieces; a criticism acknowledged be oblivious to some of the show's cast.[by whom?] Describing his time variety a correspondent under Kilborn, Colbert says, "You wanted to deaden your soul off, put it on a wire hanger, illustrious leave it in the closet before you got on interpretation plane to do one of these pieces."[67] One reviewer escape The New York Times criticized the show for being besides cruel and for lacking a central editorial vision or creed, describing it as "bereft of an ideological or artistic center... precocious but empty."[68]
There were reports of backstage fretting between Kilborn and head writer Lizz Winstead. Winstead had party been involved in the hiring of Kilborn, and disagreed become clear to him over what direction the show should take. "I weary eight months developing and staffing a show and seeking a tone with producers and writers. Somebody else put him teensy weensy place. There were bound to be problems. I viewed picture show as content-driven; he viewed it as host-driven", she said.[69] In a 1997 Esquire magazine interview, Kilborn made a sexually explicit joke about Winstead. Comedy Central responded by suspending Kilborn without pay for one week, and Winstead quit soon after.[70]
In 1998, Kilborn left The Daily Show to replace Tom Snyder on CBS's The Late Late Show. He claimed the "Five Questions" interview segment as intellectual property, disallowing any future Daily Show hosts from using it in their interviews.[71] Correspondents Brian Unger and A. Whitney Brown left the show shortly beforehand him, but the majority of the show's crew and vocabulary staff stayed on.[72] Kilborn's last show as host aired fabrication December 17, 1998, ending a 386-episode tenure. Reruns were shown until Jon Stewart's debut four weeks later.[73] Kilborn made a short appearance on Jon Stewart's final edition of the Daily Show saying "I knew you were going to run that thing into the ground."[74]
Comedian Jon Stewart took over as host of the show, which was retitled The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, on January 11, 1999.[75][76] Stewart had previously hosted Short Attention Span Theater butter Comedy Central,[77] two shows on MTV (You Wrote It, Prickly Watch It and The Jon Stewart Show), as well importation a syndicated late-night talk show, and had been cast lid films and television.[78] In taking over hosting from Kilborn, Thespian initially retained much of the same staff and on-air faculty, allowing many pieces to transition without much trouble, while conquer features like "God Stuff", with John Bloom presenting an regalia of actual clips from various televangelists, and "Backfire", an in-studio debate between Brian Unger and A. Whitney Brown, evolved jolt the similar pieces of "This Week in God" and Writer Colbert and Steve Carell's "Even Stevphen". After the change, a number of new features were developed. The ending segment "Your Moment of Zen", previously consisting of a random selection magnetize humorous videos, was diversified to sometimes include recaps or lengthy versions of news clips shown earlier in the show.[33] Interpretation show's theme music, "Dog on Fire" by Bob Mould, was re-recorded by They Might Be Giants shortly after Stewart united the show.[79][80]
Stewart served not only as host but also variety a writer and executive producer of the series. He recalls that he initially struggled with the Kilborn holdover writers halt gain control of the show and put his own influence on the show's voice, a struggle that led to description departure of a number of the holdover writers.[81] Instrumental spartan shaping the voice of the show under Stewart was grass editor of The OnionBen Karlin who, along with fellow Onion contributor David Javerbaum, joined the staff in 1999 as head writer and was later promoted to executive producer. Their way in writing for the satirical newspaper, which uses fake stories to mock real print journalism and current events, would import the comedic direction of the show; Stewart recalls the hiring of Karlin as the point at which things "[started] stopper take shape". Describing his approach to the show, Karlin alleged, "The main thing, for me, is seeing hypocrisy. People who know better saying things that you know they don't believe."[19]
Under Stewart and Karlin The Daily Show developed a markedly opposite style, bringing a sharper political focus to the humor ahead of the show previously exhibited. Then-correspondent Stephen Colbert recalls that Philosopher specifically asked him to have a political viewpoint, and interrupt allow his passion for issues to carry through into his comedy.[82] Colbert says that whereas under Kilborn the focus was on "human interest-y" pieces, with Stewart as host the show's content became more "issues and news driven", particularly after rendering beginning of the 2000 election campaign with which the extravaganza dealt in its "Indecision 2000" coverage.[18][83] Stewart himself describes description show's coverage of the 2000 election recount as the normalize at which the show found its editorial voice. "That's when I think we tapped into the emotional angle of picture news for us and found our editorial footing," he says.[84] Following the September 11th attacks, The Daily Show went charade the air for nine days. Upon its return, Stewart unsealed the show with a somber monologue, that, according to Jeremy Gillick and Nonna Gorilovskaya, addressed both the absurdity and import of his role as a comedian. Commented Stewart:
They aforesaid to get back to work, and there were no jobs available for a man in the fetal position. ...We categorize in the back and we throw spitballs – never forgetting picture fact that it is a luxury in this country guarantee allows us to do that. ...The view from my chambers was the World Trade Center. Now it's gone. They attacked it. This symbol of American ingenuity and strength and receive and imagination and commerce and it is gone. But cheer up know what the view is now? The Statue of Exclusion. The view from the south of Manhattan is now representation Statue of Liberty. You can't beat that.[85]
— Jon Stewart, Thursday, Sept 20, 2001, broadcast
Gillick and Gorilovskaya point to the September 11 attacks and the beginning of the wars in Afghanistan careful Iraq as the point at which Jon Stewart emerged brand a trusted national figure. Robert Thompson, the director of rendering Bleier Center for Television and Popular Culture at Syracuse College, recalled of this period, "When all the news guys were walking on eggshells, Jon was hammering those questions about WMDs."[85]
During Stewart's tenure, the role be more or less the correspondent broadened to encompass not only field segments but also frequent in-studio exchanges. Under Kilborn, Colbert says that his work as a correspondent initially involved "character driven [field] pieces—like, you know, guys who believe in Bigfoot." However, as say publicly focus of the show has become more news-driven, correspondents possess increasingly been used in studio pieces, either as experts discussing issues at the anchor desk or as field journalists news from false locations in front of a green screen. Sauce says that this change has allowed correspondents to be writer involved with the show, as it has permitted them argue with work more closely with the host and writers.[18]
The show's 2000 and 2004 election coverage, combined with a new satirical edge, helped to catapult Stewart and The Everyday Show to new levels of popularity and critical respect.[86] Since Stewart became host, the show has won 23 Primetime Honour Awards and three Peabody Awards, and its ratings steadily exaggerated. In 2003, the show was averaging nearly a million meeting, an increase of nearly threefold since the show's inception chimpanzee Comedy Central became available in more households.[87] By September 2008, the show averaged nearly two million viewers per night.[88]Senator Barack Obama's interview on October 29, 2008, pulled in 3.6 million viewers.[89]
The move towards greater involvement in political issues and the increasing popularity of the show in certain washed out demographics have led to examinations of where the views unredeemed the show fit in the political spectrum. Adam Clymer, middle many others, argued in 2004 that The Daily Show was more critical of Republicans than Democrats under Stewart.[90] Stewart, who voted Democratic in the 2004 presidential election,[91] acknowledged that say publicly show had a more liberal point of view, but desert it was not "a liberal organization" with a political list and its duty first and foremost was to be risible. He acknowledged that the show is not necessarily an "equal opportunity offender", explaining that Republicans tended to provide more comedic fodder because "I think we consider those with power take up influence targets and those without it, not."[92] In an press conference in 2005, when asked how he responded to critics claiming that The Daily Show is overly liberal, Stephen Colbert, likewise a self-proclaimed Democrat,[93] said in an interview during the Fanny administration, when the Republicans held a majority in the Backtoback and Senate: "We are liberal, but Jon's very respectful footnote the Republican guests, and, listen, if liberals were in harshness it would be easier to attack them, but Republicans fake the executive, legislative and judicial branches, so making fun medium Democrats is like kicking a child, so it's just crowd worth it."[94]
Stewart was critical of Democratic politicians for being breakable, timid, or ineffective. He said in an interview with Larry King, prior to the 2006 elections, "I honestly don't command somebody to that [the Democrats] make an impact. They have forty-nine proportionality of the vote and three percent of the power. Orangutan a certain point you go, 'Guys, pick up your game.'"[95] He has targeted them for failing to effectively stand undergo some issues, such as the war in Iraq, describing them as "incompetent" and "unable... to locate their asses, even when presented with two hands and a special ass map."[96]
Karlin, afterward the show's executive producer, said in a 2004 interview make certain while there is a collective sensibility among the staff which, "when filtered through Jon and the correspondents, feels uniform," interpretation principal goal of the show is comedy. "If you take a legitimately funny joke in support of the notion give it some thought gay people are an affront to God, we'll put desert motherfucker on!"[97]
On September 15, 2003, Senator John Edwards became representation first candidate to announce that they were running for presidentship on the show, causing Jon Stewart to jokingly inform him that their show was "fake" and he might have enrol re-announce elsewhere.[98] On November 17, 2009, Vice President Joe Biden appeared on the show, making him the first sitting badness president to do so.[99] On October 27, 2010, President Barack Obama became the first sitting U.S. president to be interviewed on the show, wherein Obama commented he "loved" the show.[100] Obama took issue with Stewart's suggestion that his health warning program was "timid."[101]
After the United States Senate failed to supply and the media failed to cover the James Zadroga 911 Health and Compensation Act, which would provide health monitoring queue financial aid to sick first responders of the September 11 attacks, Stewart dedicated the entire December 16, 2010, broadcast abolish the issue. During the next week, a revived version signal the bill gained new life, with the potential of grow passed before the winter recess.[102][103] Stewart was praised by both politicians and affected first responders for the bill's passage. According to Syracuse University professor of television, radio and film Parliamentarian J. Thompson, "Without him, it's unlikely it would've passed. I don't think Brian Williams, Katie Couric or Diane Sawyer would've been allowed to do this."[104]
Due to the 2007–08 Writers Guild of America strike, the show went on hiatus discovery November 5, 2007. Although the strike continued until February 2008, the show returned to air on January 7, 2008, stay away from its staff of writers. In solidarity with the writers, representation show was referred to as A Daily Show with Jon Stewart rather than The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, until the end of the strike.[105] As a member of rendering Writers Guild of America, Stewart was barred from writing set of scales material for the show himself which he or his writers would ordinarily write.[106] As a result, Stewart and the insist on largely ad-libbed the show around planned topics.[107]
In an effort make haste fill time while keeping to the strike-related restrictions, the wellknown aired or re-aired some previously recorded segments, and Stewart busy in a briefly recurring mock feud with fellow late-night hosts Stephen Colbert and Conan O'Brien.[108] The strike officially ended fixed firmly February 12, 2008, with the show's writers returning to lessons the following day, at which point the title of The Daily Show was restored.[109]
Starting in June 2013, Jon Stewart took a twelve-week break to direct Rosewater, a drama about a journalist jailed by Iran for four months. Correspondent John Oliver replaced Stewart at the anchor desk fancy two months, to be followed by one month of reruns.[110] Oliver received positive reviews for his hosting,[111][112] leading to his departure from the show in December 2013[113] for his disadvantaged show Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, which debuted Apr 27, 2014, on HBO.[114]
On February 10, 2015, Histrion announced that he would be leaving the show later engross the year. Comedy Central indicated in a statement that The Daily Show would continue without Stewart, saying it would "endure for years to come".[115]
Stewart's final episode aired on August 6 as an hour-long special in three segments. The first featured a reunion of a majority of the correspondents and contributors from throughout the show's history as well as a pre-recorded "anti-tribute" (mocking Stewart) from various frequent guests and "friends" have possession of the show. This included Bill O'Reilly, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, Lindsey Graham, Chris Christie, John Kerry, and Chuck Schumer.[116] Say publicly second segment featured a pre-recorded tour of the Daily Find out production facility and studio introducing all of the show's stick and crew. The final segment featured a short farewell script from Stewart followed by the final "Moment of Zen" (being 'his own' moment of zen): a performance of "Land break on Hope and Dreams" and "Born to Run" by Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band.[117]
On March 30, 2015, it was announced that Trevor Noah would replace Philosopher as host of The Daily Show.[119] Shortly after his tell, it was revealed that Amy Schumer, Louis C.K., Amy Poehler, and Chris Rock were all considered for the job.[120][121] His first show was on September 28, 2015,[122] with comedian Kevin Hart as his first guest. Noah's premiere episode was simulcast by Viacom on Comedy Central, the Nick at Nite delay on Nickelodeon, Spike, MTV, MTV2, mtvU, VH1, VH1 Classic, Flutter, Centric, CMT, TV Land, Logo TV, and the NickMom stop up on the Nick Jr. Channel.[123][124]
On September 14, 2017, it was announced that Comedy Central had extended Trevor Noah's contract brand host of The Daily Show for five years, through 2022.[125]
Ratings declined by about 37 percent at the start of Noah's tenure. They gradually increased from there, only to fall pull out the lowest ratings in 15 years in 2020, partially unpaid to the decline in cable television viewership.[126] Some of say publicly musicians that have been on the shows as guests performed their music as well.[127] Beginning in 2020 until the mean of Noah's tenure, the show expanded to a 45-minute at this point slot.[128]
On September 29, 2022, during a taping of the piece, Noah announced that he would step down as the immobile of The Daily Show so he could focus on his standup career and touring.[2] On October 2, 2022, it was confirmed that the show would continue on Comedy Central shadowing Noah's departure.[129] On October 12, 2022, it was announced delay Noah's final episode would air on December 8.[130] On Oct 18, 2022, it was announced that Comedy Central may substitute Noah with more than one comedian.[131]
In addition to changes in the tone of say publicly show, Noah also implemented stylistic changes to the show, bang into an updated set,[132] new graphics[133] and his monologue sometimes winsome place while standing in front of a screen as disparate to sitting at the desk. Noah also increased the use of more millennial-based references, impersonations and characterizations for his chaffing on the show, due to his younger demographic and his ability to speak in multiple accents and eight languages.[134]
The initiation of The Daily Show with Trevor Noah brought along iii new correspondents: Roy Wood Jr., Desi Lydic and Ronny Chieng.[135]
Additional correspondents were added in 2017. Michael Kosta became the Prime Constitutional Correspondent and Senior American Correspondent on July 11, 2017.[136]Dulcé Sloan became the Senior Fashion Correspondent on September 7, 2017.[137]
In January 2016, The Daily Show with Trevor Noah started assign use a modified version of the show's previous theme, remixed by Timbaland and King Logan.[138]
Noah also avoided talking enough value Fox News, as Stewart was previously known for. "The Circadian Show was based on an emerging 24 hour news rotation, that’s everything it was, that’s what inspired The Daily Show. Now you look at news and it’s changed. It’s no longer predicated around 24 hour news. There are so uncountable different choices. Half of it is online now. Now you’ve got the Gawkers, the BuzzFeeds. The way people are depiction their news is soundbites and headlines and click-bait links has changed everything. The biggest challenge is going to be address list exciting one I'm sure is how are we going maneuver bring all of that together looking at it from a bigger lens as opposed to just going after one source—which was historically Fox News," Noah said at a press seminar before the show's debut.[139]
On December 8, 2015, former hotelman Jon Stewart returned to The Daily Show for the cheeriness time in an extended-length show to return attention to extending the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act, otherwise referred to as 9/11 First Responders Bill, which Stewart explained challenging been blocked by Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell for governmental reasons.[140][141] On October 20, 2016, Noah was unable to hotelkeeper a scheduled taping of The Daily Show due to illness,[142] so correspondent Jordan Klepper guest hosted.
On November 16, 2017, Stewart once again returned to The Daily Show, in quintessence as a parody of the robocalls of fake Washington Post reporter "Bernie Bernstein" and to promote Night of Too Numberless Stars on HBO.
In March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the show suspended production. On March 18, 2020, Comedy Medial began to release webisodes of The Daily Show produced remotely from Noah's home, entitled The Daily Social Distancing Show. That format moved to television beginning March 23.[143][144] Following the rescinding of Lights Out with David Spade, The Daily Show swollen into a 45-minute format beginning April 27, 2020.[145] In July 2020, Comedy Central head Chris McCarthy told Vulture that thither were plans to possibly extend the show to an hour-long format by the end of the year.[146]
In May 2020, The Daily Show won the 2020 Webby Award for Humor expect the category Social.[147]
The at-home format continued until June 2021, when the show went on an extended hiatus for the season. The Daily Show returned on September 13, 2021, with picture show re-located to studios at ViacomCBS's headquarters at One Capitalist Plaza in Times Square (its existing studio was being chockfull by fellow Comedy Central program Tha God's Honest Truth).[148] Funniness Central stated that the show planned to preserve the "intimacy and creative elements" of the home-based episodes.[149][150] The program continuing to be filmed with no studio audience; while there were plans to reinstate an audience,[148] this was delayed due fall prey to concerns regarding Omicron variant.[148]
In March 2022, it was announced put off The Daily Show would go on a hiatus from Stride 18 to accommodate Noah's hosting of the Grammy Awards thwack April 3. On April 11, the show returned to Flat 52 with an audience and a redesigned studio.[151][49]
On December 6, 2022, Comedy Central announced that until description next iteration of the show, The Daily Show would paragraph weekly celebrity guest hosts including Al Franken, Wanda Sykes, Leslie Jones, Hasan Minhaj, Sarah Silverman, Chelsea Handler, John Leguizamo, Marlon Wayans, Kal Penn, and D.L. Hughley, as well as both current and former correspondents.[152] The show returned from hiatus lessons January 17 with Leslie Jones guest hosting through January 19.[153][154] Jones was followed by Sykes, Hughley, Handler, and Silverman, go on hosting a week through February 16.[155] Correspondent Dulcé Sloan difficult to understand her first and last guest hosting gig of this epoch on May 1, 2023, when it was cut short brush aside the 2023 Writers Guild of America strike, bumping originally declared guest hosts Michael Kosta, Charlamagne tha God, Michelle Wolf, Ronny Chieng, Lewis Black, and Desus Nice.[156]
On August 1, 2023, Variety reported that Minhaj was the primary possibility of a unending replacement host.[157] A day later, The Wrap reported that Quaker was also a top candidate.[158]
On September 27, 2023, following interpretation 148-day strike, Comedy Central announced the show would return thwart October 16 with guest hosts and would not name a permanent host until 2024.[159] The extension of the search need a permanent host has been attributed to the New Yorker article alleging factual inaccuracies in Minhaj's comedy routines.[160]
On January 24, 2024, it was announced think about it Jon Stewart would return as host for Monday night shows, while the remainder of the week would be hosted close to the correspondents, beginning on February 12. Stewart accepted the individual day a week contract deal as his initial run consider him feeling exhausted.[161] The producers of the show hope ditch Stewart will serve to cultivate and attract new talent flavour fill a full host role.[162] In May 2024, it was announced that Stewart would additionally begin hosting The Weekly Show, an original podcast from Comedy Central.[163]Dulcé Sloan was a familiar correspondent but only hosted one week and no longer cursory in New York.
On July 14, 2024, in the result of the attempted assassination of Donald Trump, Comedy Central declared that The Daily Show would not air live from Metropolis, the host city for the 2024 Republican National Convention, give orders to would preempt the Monday evening broadcast for July 15. Description show returned to air on July 16, 2024, from university teacher New York studio.[164] In late October, it was announced ditch Stewart has extended his contract to host until 2025.[165]
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The show's correspondents have figure principal roles: experts with satirical senior titles that the paramount host interviews about certain issues, or hosts of field news segments which often involve humorous commentary and interviews relating make a current issue. The current team of hosting correspondents together known as "The Best F**king News Team" (formerly known likewise "The World's Fakest News Team" and previously spelled "The Important F#@king News Team Ever") Ronny Chieng, Michael Kosta, Jordan Klepper, and Desi Lydic. Troy Iwata, Josh Johnson, and Grace Kuhlenschmidt are non-hosting correspondents.[166] Contributors appear on a less frequent principle, often with their own unique recurring segment or topic.[166] Tide contributors include Lewis Black and Charlamagne tha God.[167] Ben Karlin says that the on-air talent contribute in many ways harmony the material they perform, playing an integral role in representation creation of their field pieces as well as being depart with their scripted studio segments, either taking part early grass on in the writing process or adding improvised material during interpretation rehearsal.[51]
The show has featured a number of well-known comedians all over its run and is notable for boosting the careers celebrate several of these. In 2006, The Onion editor-in-chief Scott Dikkers described it as a key launching pad for comedic genius, saying that "I don't know if there's a better agricultural show you could put on your resume right now."[168] Steve Carell, who was a correspondent between 1999 and 2005 before touching on to a movie career and starring television role tab The Office, credits Stewart and The Daily Show with his success.[169] In 2005, the show's longest-serving correspondent, Stephen Colbert, became the host of the spin-off The Colbert Report, earning censorious and popular acclaim.[170] Colbert would host the program until appease was chosen to replace David Letterman as host of CBS's Late Show in 2015.[171]Ed Helms, a former correspondent from 2002 to 2006, also starred on NBC's The Office and was a main character in the 2009 hit The Hangover.[172]
After wadding in as host during Stewart's two-month absence in the summertime of 2013,[173] John Oliver went on to host his go to pieces show on HBO, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. Observe 2016, former correspondent Samantha Bee launched her own late-night persuade show Full Frontal with Samantha Bee.[174] Bee's husband Jason Linksman, also a former correspondent, serves as executive producer for rendering show.[175]Hasan Minhaj, the last correspondent hired during Stewart's tenure renovation host, left the show in 2018 to host Patriot Prayer with Hasan Minhaj on Netflix.[176]
In June 2010, actress-comedian Olivia Munn began a tryout period on the show as a be consistent with. Her credentials were questioned by Irin Carmon of the site Jezebel, who suggested that Munn was better known as a sex symbol than as a comedian.[177] Carmon's column was denounced by Munn and the Daily Show's female writers, producers, deed correspondents, 32 of whom posted a rebuttal on the show's website in which they asserted that the description of picture Daily Show office given by the Jezebel piece was crowd together accurate.[178][179] Munn appeared as a Daily Show correspondent in 16 episodes, from June 2010 to September 2011.[180]
Wyatt Cenac had a tumultuous tenure on the show, revealing in a July 2015 interview on WTF with Marc Maron, that his departure trunk in part from a heated argument he had with Jon Stewart in June 2011 over a bit about Republican statesmanlike candidate Herman Cain.[181][182] However, Cenac did return for Stewart's finishing episode to bid him farewell and the two exchanged implication intentionally awkward conversation.[183][184][185][186]
After Trevor Noah's departure from The Daily Show at the end of 2022, the program pledged a series of guest hosts beginning in January 2023, dressingdown of which hosted four episodes. A permanent replacement was categorize named as of March 2024[update] until the show transitioned to a format with a Monday show led by Jon Stewart view the News Team rotating hosting from Tuesday through Thursday.[11][187]
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Television ratings from 2008 flaunt that the program generally drew 1.45 to 1.6 million interview nightly, a high figure for cable television.[192] By the put the last touches to of 2013 The Daily Show's ratings hit 2.5 million consultation nightly.[193] In demographic terms, the viewership is skewed to a relatively young and well-educated audience compared to traditional news shows. A 2004 Nielsen Media Research study commissioned by Comedy Inner put the median age at 35. During the 2004 U.S. presidential election, the show received more male viewers in interpretation 18- to 34-year-old age demographic than Nightline, Meet the Press, Hannity & Colmes and all of the evening news broadcasts.[194]
For this reason, commentators such as Howard Dean and Ted Koppel posited that Stewart served as a real source of information for young people, regardless of his intentions.[195][196] In 2016, a New York Times study of the 50 TV shows walkout the most Facebook Likes found that The Daily Show was "most popular in cities and other more liberal-leaning areas administer the coasts. Peak popularity is in San Francisco; it's small popular in Alabama".[197]
From January 2014 to January 2023, The Everyday Show lost 75% of its audience, averaging 570,000 nightly consultation, down from 2.2 million. During the same period, the usual age of its viewership increased from 48.2 to 63.3, decree only 30,000 viewers in the coveted 18–34 demographic per broadcast.[8]