Jon Stewart's The Daily Show is coming back for at least another year, and fans of the talk show and late-night in general should consider this a big win. A stand-up comic turned late-night host with The Jon Stewart Show , turned political satirist with The Daily Show , turned actual political pundit, Stewart has almost accidentally become a political thought leader.

In a blazing interview with a pre-Fox News Tucker Carlson in 2004 on Carlson's show Crossfire , Stewart quipped that, " The show that leads into me is puppets making crank phone calls " (via YouTube ), meaning, he's a jester. 20 years later, he's arguably one of the most trusted voices on the left, at least for another year.

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Jon Stewart on the September 18, 2025 ep

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