Jon Stewart rips Paramount and CBS
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Show' host's comments came shortly before it was announced that CBS has canceled 'The Late Show With Stephen Colbert.'
The award-winning news comedy show, which propelled Jon Stewart to fame and saw him return as a one-day-a-week anchor in 2024, is adding a new rotating host to its lineup.
Jon Stewart doesn’t know whether The Daily Show will survive Paramount Global’s merger with Skydance—the one Paramount was willing to settle with Donald Trump to secure—but the show is adding yet another anti-Trump correspondent to its hosting rotation.
Nate Silver turned down a chance to appear on "The Daily Show" last fall. He was doing a book tour. That shows how far late-night TV has fallen.
The “shitty establishment” Stewart is referencing seems to be Paramount as a whole, though he doesn’t spare Comedy Central either. “I’d like to believe that without The Daily Show… I don’t know. Comedy Central is kind of like muzak at this point,
Jon Stewart says he is not worried about Skydance potentially canceling "The Daily Show," saying "we'll land on our feet."
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