Jon Stewart will host “The Daily Show” on Thursday night following the suspension of Jimmy Kimmel .
Stewart has only hosted on Mondays since returning to the show last year with the show’s correspondents taking turns behind the desk. Desi Lydic hosted on Tuesday and Wednesday.
The sudden change comes a day after ABC pulled “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” from the air indefinitely following Kimmel’s Monday monologue where he criticized conservatives’ response to Charlie Kirk’s murder and suspected gunman Tyler Robinson without knowing his motivations.
“The MAGA gang [is] desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it,” Kimmel said.
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