There have been TV shows that I missed, but rarely one whose closing makes me ferklempt.
I know it’s going on with Noah Trevor (or Trevor Noah), and I’m sure he’s good, but it won’t be the same. Stewart is the greatest blend of entertainer and commentator to come along in many years, as significant as Thomas Nash. He’s the best at what he does.
So, any thoughts on the final episode tonight?
I imagine we’ll see tons of former and current correspondents come out. I bet we see Steve and Stephen and tons of others.
I’ll miss Stewart. It’s going to take Trevor Noah a few years to find his groove. I don’t think Stewart got great until 9/11, honestly.
I still keeping hoping that it’s just a big Andy Kaufmanesque fake-out and on tonight’s show he will say “You thought I was really leaving? Suckers, I’ll be here forever!”
My thought is: I am traveling and won’t get to see it live! Dammit!
Much, much respect. Thanks, Jon.
I’m really bummed he isn’t staying for just one more day. I’m really going to miss his coverage of tonight’s Republican debate …circus music plays in my head …
I’m going to miss him and his show. I wish him the best, but I wish he would change his mind and stay at least until this next election is over.
Its overdue. Hope he’s got an extension ladder to climb down from that soap box.
So there it goes, the show I have watched the most in my life. By far, probably. I guess second place is Arrested Development due to multiple rewatchings, but it can’t be close.
The Daily Show was best 2002-2008 when it had John Oliver, Colbert, George Bush. Also back then Stewart was a little more fresh. The 50th time he does the “I pulled a muscle in my shoulder joke” it’s not that amusing anymore.
I don’t believe that the show in the future will be something I am interested in watching. I don’t think Noah is up to such a huge task. Also he got embarrassingly drunk once and naked for some reason.
I feel the same, but I can understand him just being tired of it all. He’s seemed more lively since he’s announced that he’s leaving.
I’m looking forward to the episode tonight. Colbert’s last episode was just about perfect, I’m curious how this will measure up.
Change that to Nast, and I agree with you.
Sorry. You knew we were pedants when you signed up.
But yeah, he’s Will Rogers, Mark Twain, Thomas Nast level.
Wow. I’m a big fan of TDS and Stewart. I came into the thread to praise him. But I can’t let this go by.
He doesn’t write his material. There’s a huge staff of writers. He contributes to the final product, controls what goes on air, and has to sell it, but that’s hugely different from creating the material himself. You cannot compare him to anyone who doesn’t have a writing staff.
That said, it was a great run. More important than Letterman, despite all the love he got when he left. I’m sorry he won’t be around for the election cycle but I totally get why he wouldn’t want to repeat himself. Heck, just read the Elections forum to see how exactly and boringly 2011-12 is being repeated there.
To be clear: I agree with your statement. But he ran the “Daily Show company” and was the voice they wrote for. As Rory Albanese, the showrunner for Larry Wilmore now, and a principal writer for JS said (paraphrasing) he built the machine. We didn’t know it could run on it’s own until John Oliver took over, but when we saw that, it was amazing to realize what Stewart had built.
So: different from Nast, Twain and Rogers, but totally respect-worthy.
Obviously he has a writing staff, as did Letterman and Carson and the rest, but there’s no doubt a lot of his interviews contained an adequate amount of ad libbing, and he was damned fine at it.
Well, there’s a tiny little hole in my life that probably won’t be re-filled.
What were the highlights? I’ll see it tomorrow, but don’t mind spoilers.
I didn’t notice anyone missing. Don’t know what to watch after 11 now. But it is still, and always will be, the most important show on television, ever.
Some of his favorite political targets got to take a shot at him. Some old guy from New Jersey with a band closed the show.
That’s a rather hyperbolic statement.
I kept trying to think of which former correspondents hadn’t shown up yet, as many as there were it still seemed like there would be more somehow.
Those are ginormous shoes young Trevor is stepping into, I hope he does well.
They wouldn’t have said it at the beginning of so many shows if it wasn’t true.