# Holy crap! Jon Stewart looked SO YOUNG eight years ago!
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-jon-stewart-looked-so-young-eight-years-ago/471964
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [November 10, 2008, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-jon-stewart-looked-so-young-eight-years-ago/471964 "2008-11-10T01:03:19Z")
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### Author:  [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2008, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-jon-stewart-looked-so-young-eight-years-ago/471964/1 "2008-11-10T01:03:19Z")
> **[The Daily Show with Trevor Noah | Comedy Central](https://www.cc.com/shows/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah)**
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> The Daily Show is an Emmy- and Peabody Award-winning program that looks at the day’s top headlines through a sharp, reality-based lens.
Nuff said.
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### Author:  [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2008, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-jon-stewart-looked-so-young-eight-years-ago/471964/2 "2008-11-10T01:40:39Z")
You need to find the footage from his MTV show. He looked like a kid.
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### Author:  [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2008, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-jon-stewart-looked-so-young-eight-years-ago/471964/3 "2008-11-10T01:42:02Z")
Oh man, that is **SO** 90s!
[![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iOmj0htNcM)
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### Author:  [@Stealth\_Potato](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stealth_Potato)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2008, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-jon-stewart-looked-so-young-eight-years-ago/471964/4 "2008-11-10T01:44:08Z")
Gah! Don’t _do_ that! When I first saw this thread title, I experienced a brief moment of irrational panic and fear, thinking that Jon Stewart had just suddenly _died_, hence your use of past tense and the remark about his apparent age… Don’t scare people with your thread titles like that! Surely someone else did a double take on this one too, right? Anybody? :eek:
But yes, now that I’ve recovered from the shock of thinking that something might have happened to my favorite TV personality ever[sup]\*[/sup], he does look a lot younger in that clip. As funny as ever, though. 😃
\*Sorry, Stephen, but you’re a really close second. Nothing personal.
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### Author:  [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2008, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-jon-stewart-looked-so-young-eight-years-ago/471964/5 "2008-11-10T01:46:14Z")
> [@Stealth\_Potato](#):
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> Gah! Don’t _do_ that! When I first saw this thread title, I experienced a brief moment of irrational panic and fear, thinking that Jon Stewart had just suddenly _died_, hence your use of past tense and the remark about his apparent age… Don’t scare people with your thread titles like that! Surely someone else did a double take on this one too, right? Anybody? :eek:
Yeah, me too.
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### Author:  [@Jenaroph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenaroph)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2008, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-jon-stewart-looked-so-young-eight-years-ago/471964/6 "2008-11-10T01:57:24Z")
The last eight years have been hard on him.
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### Author:  [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2008, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-jon-stewart-looked-so-young-eight-years-ago/471964/7 "2008-11-10T02:15:31Z")
> [@Jenaroph](#):
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> The last eight years have been hard on him.
Hey, I think he looks pretty dignified now. He’s aging well.
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### Author:  [@Nanoda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nanoda)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2008, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-jon-stewart-looked-so-young-eight-years-ago/471964/8 "2008-11-10T02:21:42Z")
I’m a big Daily Show fan, and I recall Jon remarking upon that during a recent episode… though I can’t watch the linked one since Canadians keep getting redirected to the ultra crappy Comedy Network website. :mad:
I too think he looks dignified. Or would if he gave up half his gags. 😃
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### Author:  [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2008, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-jon-stewart-looked-so-young-eight-years-ago/471964/9 "2008-11-10T02:21:49Z")
> [@Jenaroph](#):
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> The last eight years have been hard on him.
If by “hard” you mean having to winnow down material to fit in a 30 minute timeslot, I agree. In 2004 (but strangely **not** this year), the night before the election, he begged the audience to “make things really hard for me” because the past 4 years had been very _easy_ on him. 😃
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### Author:  [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2008, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-jon-stewart-looked-so-young-eight-years-ago/471964/10 "2008-11-10T03:07:10Z")
I think **Jenaroph** means on a personal level, not in his professional life. The last 8 years have been the greatest thing for his career, but I’m sure he would rather it went differently.
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### Author:  [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2008, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-jon-stewart-looked-so-young-eight-years-ago/471964/11 "2008-11-10T03:48:06Z")
I’ve moved this thread, and altered the title somewhat so people don’t think Uncle Jon has gone to the basic cable network in the sky. Hope that’s okay with the OP.
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### Author:  [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2008, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-jon-stewart-looked-so-young-eight-years-ago/471964/12 "2008-11-10T04:05:17Z")
That’s fine, except that it’s a clip from nine years ago.
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### Author:  [@Key\_Lime\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Key_Lime_Guy)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2008, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-jon-stewart-looked-so-young-eight-years-ago/471964/13 "2008-11-10T04:05:28Z")
He’s our most important Jew! [/Mort Goldman]
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### Author:  [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2008, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-jon-stewart-looked-so-young-eight-years-ago/471964/14 "2008-11-10T04:09:26Z")
Comedy Central recently reran Jon Stewart - Unleavened, an HBO special he did in 1996. He looks about 12.
I’ve never seen it before. In fact, I don’t remember ever seeing a full-length comedy concert of his. You can really see the influence he’s has on more recent political comics like Lewis Black.
Of course, I’m one of six people on the planet who watched him debut on Short Attention Span Theater on The Comedy Channel in 1989, when he was, I believe, actually 12. (Somebody needs to correct the listing for that show on IMDb, which doesn’t mention him at all.)
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### Author:  [@x-ray\_vision](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/x-ray_vision)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2008, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-jon-stewart-looked-so-young-eight-years-ago/471964/15 "2008-11-10T04:22:50Z")
Eh. I looked a lot younger nine years ago too.
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### Author:  [@Jenaroph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenaroph)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2008, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-jon-stewart-looked-so-young-eight-years-ago/471964/16 "2008-11-10T05:26:46Z")
> [@Hostile\_Dialect](#):
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> I think **Jenaroph** means on a personal level, not in his professional life. The last 8 years have been the greatest thing for his career, but I’m sure he would rather it went differently.
Er, yeah.
I was going to make a followup joke about comedy being hard, but this is literally the real answer.
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### Author:  [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2008, 7:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-jon-stewart-looked-so-young-eight-years-ago/471964/17 "2008-11-10T07:47:59Z")
> [@Stealth\_Potato](#):
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> Gah! Don’t _do_ that! When I first saw this thread title, I experienced a brief moment of irrational panic and fear, thinking that Jon Stewart had just suddenly _died_, hence your use of past tense and the remark about his apparent age… Don’t scare people with your thread titles like that! Surely someone else did a double take on this one too, right? Anybody? :eek:
Egh? Has the thread title been edited?
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### Author:  [@Bacon\_Salt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bacon_Salt)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2008, 7:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-jon-stewart-looked-so-young-eight-years-ago/471964/18 "2008-11-10T07:52:48Z")
Holy crap, there’s like, three people in that audience!
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### Author:  [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2008, 7:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-jon-stewart-looked-so-young-eight-years-ago/471964/19 "2008-11-10T07:53:23Z")
I didn’t see him as Tobias kept pushing a basket of flowers in front of his face, and my attention span made me close the window in 25 seconds or so.
But I think he looks so different because he gained weight and went gray . . . something most people do in those years between our mid-30s and mid-40s.
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### Author:  [@Coriolanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coriolanus)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2008, 8:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/holy-crap-jon-stewart-looked-so-young-eight-years-ago/471964/20 "2008-11-10T08:14:30Z")
He had a beard in the Sandra Bullock vehicle _The Net_ where he played the trusting friend.
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