Fuck me. Maybe he should tell his kids they can keep eating dinner without him.
Because he’s not funny, and hasn’t been since the early days of his HBO show. If you want someone a bit more conservative I would be okay with PJ O’Rourke but he’s eleventy billion years old.
O’Rourke is a funny writer, but at least judging by his appearances on Wait Wait, that doesn’t translate to being funny live. Even if he weren’t a bajillion years old, he wouldn’t work as a show host. He doesn’t even do a good job as a panelist.
I’d be pretty happy with Patton Oswalt, but I think John Hodgeman could do it, too.
Bigger plot twist: Letterman takes it.
…I started wondering if anyone is asking the co-creators of The Daily Show for their own picks, and found this article. Winstead doesn’t give her choice, but the page may be of interest anyway:
http://www.inc.com/zoe-henry/the-daily-show-co-creator-bids-farewell-to-Jon-Stewart.html
That’s probably fair. It occurred to me after I posted that that I haven’t seen O’Rourke on TV since about 1995.
Hodgman would have been a better replacement for Colbert than Stewart; he’s much better at playing a character. I actively dislike him when he plays himself.
The Daily Show is his baby and he’s extremely proud of it and if he’s an egomaniac he’s more of the kind who wants it to last forever than the kind who wants it to go down in flames without him. For these reasons I have faith he will leave it in very capable hands, as he did when he made John Oliver regent during the filming of Rosewater. That’s not to say Oliver is necessarily the best choice for his replacement, but I think he’ll find the best.
Unfortunately the combination of brilliance, extremely well-read wit, humor, and quick-thinking is going to be hard to find even for megabucks.
Cenk and Ana basically do The Daily Show on TYT now, but without the comedy bits.
I say let Cenk and Ana be free to do what they do now on the Daily Show. There’s no reason they have to try to be Jon Stewart clones. Let the show evolve a bit.
Thinking about it, you know who could REALLY knock it out of the park, the person best suited to be Stewart’s successor? Smart, well-read, politically astute and funny?
Ben Mankiewicz!
If it’s Hodgeman, I will lose TDS forever.
He was always my least favorite.
How about Anthony Jeselnik? I know his own show crashed and burned, but I think he may do well. It would definitely be darker…
Nick Kroll should be available too…
I wondered what happened to him – I liked his show. And yet that stupid “At Midnight” stays on. I guess I’m just not plugged into the zeitgeist.
Agree with you on his appearance on WWDTM - very disappointing. He’s not even a funny writer any more. I loved his first bunch of books, but I’ve pretty much given up on him.
None of us will be deciding this (probably).
I guess that would give us scope for another fast-moving thread, debating who should be Robert Osborne’s new heir apparent.
Anyone but Drew Barrymore!
Great op-ed from Paul Begala about the day Jon Stewart blew up Crossfire:
I think Chris Rock, Louis C.K. and Tina Fey are the three best suggestions I’ve heard in terms of agile, clever minds. Though it could be the second is just too morose at times to pull off a daily show.
But I’d kinda doubt any of them would step up to the plate, even for $25 million/year. The time committment alone must be staggering and they are all already rich enough to say no.
CC needs to view the next host as sacrificial. Add some backup people to the show and if the new person doesn’t gel fairly soon, pull 'em. Their chances of stumbling on a new Jon Stewart are low.
And avoid Joel McHale. He’s just Kilborn 2.0.
I dream of Lewis Black having his own show, but he’d probably croak if he had to run at full angry 4 days a week.
Demetri Martin has a connection because of his show, but I don’t think his style fits.
Dave Chapelle is more of a Larry Wilmore panelist type than hosting a comedy news show.
Jimmy Carr would be a good idea, though he is committed to 8 out of 10 cats and other gigs.
Dara O’brien or Charlie Brooker would also work, but both are committed to other shows. Charlie Brooker might be my top pick if I had my way. Getting Brooker to focus on American news might be hard, but he could probably do it.
Guess I am the only liberal who never understood the big deal about that show. But I suppose most liberals love to bash Fox news so that’s why they love him. BTW, I don’t like Fox.