# Jon Stewart to step down from The Daily Show **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 10, 2015, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jon-stewart-to-step-down-from-the-daily-show/712345 "2015-02-10T23:49:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 12
**Author:** ![Sam\_Lowry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e95f7d/32.png) [@Sam\_Lowry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Lowry)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2015, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jon-stewart-to-step-down-from-the-daily-show/712345/221 "2015-03-30T14:34:05Z")
Interesting choice with Trevor Noah. It’s hard to predict what he’ll be like, but I think he could be good. > [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > That’s what it smells like. He never did “field” pieces like the other correspondents. Just sit-downs with Jon. There have been some other contributors who never have field pieces, like Kristen Schaal, John Hodgeman, Lewis Black, and Demetri Martin. Larry Wilmore had a few rare times when he was in the field, but the vast majority of his appearances were sit-downs with Jon. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2015, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jon-stewart-to-step-down-from-the-daily-show/712345/222 "2015-03-30T14:34:40Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > Is it possible Stewart quietly told producers awhile ago and they kind of hired Noah as a potential host back 6 months ago? More likely that Jon Stewart identified Trevor Noah as a possible replacement a while back and had him on in December as a sort of audition. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2015, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jon-stewart-to-step-down-from-the-daily-show/712345/223 "2015-03-30T14:40:47Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > More likely that Jon Stewart identified Trevor Noah as a possible replacement a while back and had him on in December as a sort of audition. That is pretty much what I was saying. ---
**Author:** ![2ManyTacos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/2/3da27b/32.png) [@2ManyTacos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/2ManyTacos)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2015, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jon-stewart-to-step-down-from-the-daily-show/712345/224 "2015-03-30T15:23:00Z")
Yup, pretty good pick, but damn, I was really pulling for Jessica Williams. Ah well… ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2015, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jon-stewart-to-step-down-from-the-daily-show/712345/225 "2015-03-30T15:29:47Z")
Huh, so Variety gives good rumor. I’ve have to remember that the next time they rumor something. Now they need to properly work out the format. Larry Wilmore is great and his monologue section of his show is great. It’s the rest of the show with other people that stinks. The TDS staff need to learn from that. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2015, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jon-stewart-to-step-down-from-the-daily-show/712345/226 "2015-03-30T15:30:17Z")
So, how long before he comes on to the set and starts measuring for his new desk?? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2015, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jon-stewart-to-step-down-from-the-daily-show/712345/227 "2015-03-30T15:56:40Z")
I’ve seen him once on the Daily Show, and I was impressed. I just pulled up a couple of his links on Youtube–and it’s been a long while since I cried with laughter like that. I love this guy. Edit: two links (sorry if they’ve already been posted): [Tacos](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDk5ajNDgZc) [Live at the Apollo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LQw_J-sbeU)–especially the bit at the end about learning German ---
**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2015, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jon-stewart-to-step-down-from-the-daily-show/712345/228 "2015-03-30T16:18:04Z")
Personally, I don’t think he’ll be that strongly embraced by the comedy central audience. Superficially, he just sounds too high faluting with that accent.lol. But also, from what I’ve seen, his act of course has a lot of racial issue stuff. Apparently that’s a big theme on the Nightly Show. Doubt they’re going to get a lot of people to laugh and learn about American race issues an hour every night. Personally, he’s only so so funny for me. We’ll see but pretty sure they aren’t going to catch lightning in a bottle again. The era of the hippest 11:00-12:00 slot is going to move stations. ---
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2015, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jon-stewart-to-step-down-from-the-daily-show/712345/229 "2015-03-30T16:19:43Z")
> [@CarnalK](#): > > Personally, I don’t think he’ll be that strongly embraced by the comedy central audience. Superficially, he just sounds too high faluting with that accent.lol. John Oliver did fine last summer. ---
**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2015, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jon-stewart-to-step-down-from-the-daily-show/712345/230 "2015-03-30T16:51:11Z")
> [@EllisDee](#): > > John Oliver did fine last summer. Maybe you don’t have an ear for it, but John Oliver does not have a high faluting accent. That’s man on the street English. Noah sounds like he was sent to the poshest of prep schools.I think critiques of American politics with that accent might rub some the wrong way. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2015, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jon-stewart-to-step-down-from-the-daily-show/712345/231 "2015-03-30T17:30:10Z")
> [@CarnalK](#): > > Maybe you don’t have an ear for it, but John Oliver does not have a high faluting accent. That’s man on the street English. Noah sounds like he was sent to the poshest of prep schools.I think critiques of American politics with that accent might rub some the wrong way. Nobody will notice. Nobody will differentiate. Nobody will care. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2015, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jon-stewart-to-step-down-from-the-daily-show/712345/232 "2015-03-30T17:45:36Z")
> [@CarnalK](#): > > Personally, I don’t think he’ll be that strongly embraced by the comedy central audience. Superficially, he just sounds too high faluting with that accent.lol. But also, from what I’ve seen, his act of course has a lot of racial issue stuff. Apparently that’s a big theme on the Nightly Show. Doubt they’re going to get a lot of people to laugh and learn about American race issues an hour every night. The Nightly Show is explicitly about race and racial issues. (I think the working title was The Minority Report.) The Daily Show with Trevor Noah isn’t going to be about race any more than it is now. And as for his accent, remember that the audience is _really_ liberal. If any of us have a problem with it, we’re certainly not going to complain about it. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2015, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jon-stewart-to-step-down-from-the-daily-show/712345/233 "2015-03-30T17:46:10Z")
Yeah, Americans can’t recognize any class difference based on those two accents. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2015, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jon-stewart-to-step-down-from-the-daily-show/712345/234 "2015-03-30T18:04:38Z")
> [@Acsenray](#): > > Yeah, Americans can’t recognize any class difference based on those two accents. Seriously. Absent the most Cockney accent imaginable, or [the chavviest chav you can get](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLba2wGx4qI)–and maybe not even then–American audiences are not gonna distinguish one British accent from another. Wait, that’s South African? Are you sure it’s not Australian? You get the point. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2015, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jon-stewart-to-step-down-from-the-daily-show/712345/235 "2015-03-30T18:16:38Z")
Although now that I type that, I’m realizing that he builds a lot of his standup around accents, especially American accents: New York black accent, LA Latino accent, Midwest white accent, etc. He’s quite good at it. I’d be surprised if he lets his true accent get in his way. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2015, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jon-stewart-to-step-down-from-the-daily-show/712345/236 "2015-03-30T18:22:17Z")
As I said when it was just a rumor: I look forward to learning more about his persona, but like the choice overall… ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2015, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jon-stewart-to-step-down-from-the-daily-show/712345/237 "2015-03-30T18:28:39Z")
Just want to remind people what I meant when I said I’ve been touting him, and why. 2013 > [@Please recommend for me some stand up comedy](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-recommend-for-me-some-stand-up-comedy/664929/34): > > I’ve just come back from the Montreal Just for Laughs festival. … > Trevor Noah - I hate to push him because he’s going back to South Africa after spending two years touring the U.S. He’s the anti-[Bo] Burnam, a quiet gentleman who is all personality and connects with the audience throughout an act that is otherwise just as precisely honed. (His best local line was that Montreal calls itself bilingual, but is really French with English subtitles. Perfect.) The whole hour is essentially one long story about his boyhood under apartheid and how he came to the U.S. so that he would have an identity: as black. The show’s called “Born a Crime” because he has a black mother and white father and interracial babies had no legal identity. And he does it all from a perspective of how happy his childhood was. The audience, more racially-diverse than at any other show, loved him, rightfully so. If the suits ever figure out what to do with him, he will be a gigantic global star, Will Smith before everybody started hating him. 2014 > [@Trevor Noah on TDS](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trevor-noah-on-tds/706424/25): > > I posted this last year: > Never occurred to me that he might become a Daily Show correspondent. This might become his stepping stone to huge American success. His upside is unlimited. That’s why I really, really like this choice. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2015, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jon-stewart-to-step-down-from-the-daily-show/712345/238 "2015-03-30T18:40:42Z")
I doubt that more than 25% of Americans (perhaps a slightly higher proportion of TDS viewers) would even recognize Noah’s accent as South African. “Say, are you Australian?” ---
**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2015, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jon-stewart-to-step-down-from-the-daily-show/712345/239 "2015-03-30T19:14:12Z")
We’ll see. I wish him goodluck but I don’t think it’ll work. Actually, here in Canada the broadcast network that carried TDS & CR dropped Colbert- it was only on Comedy network. Wonder if they’ll keep Daily Show without Jon Stewart. Is it still going to be called The Daily Show for sure? Eta: Do Americans not hear any difference in the accents or you just don’t get that one is more uller crusty? ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2015, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jon-stewart-to-step-down-from-the-daily-show/712345/240 "2015-03-30T19:26:32Z")
I’m English and grew up around ANZACs and people with upper crust accents, so it’s not a problem for me. The point is just that Americans are awful at distinguishing Commonwealth accents generally. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jon-stewart-to-step-down-from-the-daily-show/712345.md?page=11) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jon-stewart-to-step-down-from-the-daily-show/712345.md?page=13)