I don’t think John Oliver was going to jump ship from HBO but in case he was considering it, HBO locked him down for two years.
I guess I could send in a demo tape. 
All those panel show suggestions and not the most obvious? David Mitchellwould be my pick. One sample related to the Daily Show’s remit: a monologue re: politicians vs. the media (in this case, the BBC).
Alternately, Greg Proops.
Clive Anderson?
No.
I recall sometime in the '90s Clive Anderson hosting a travel documentary. He came off as a massive prick and not funny. His shtick doesn’t translate to anything that’s true satire or has some underlying seriousness.
Lewis Black had a Comedy Central show. It was awful. Larry’s is far, far better.
The hell ? How do you go from “cardiac transplant surgeon” to “professional funny guy” ?
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Sorry, it just bothers me that online articles by big-name publications so often contain grammatical and typographical errors.
He must be, like, 100 by now.
I don’t understand people thinking in terms of a replacement, as if the show can continue without Stewart.
Sure a different personality can fill the time slot and try to keep Comedy Central relevant. but it’s over. Stewart is unique.
shrug it started without him. He’s awesome and really changed the show from Craiggers but unless all the writers go too, the show can definitely give it a go to continue.
John Oliver is successfully doing a similar thing with his own spin on it. Whoever they choose to replace Stewart, if they choose wisely, can absolutely do the same. Successfully create a similar thing with his/her own spin.
The Daily Show as it currently exists needs Stewart. A comedy show at 11:00 that vaguely parodies the News doesn’t need him. Hell he wasn’t the first host. As I wrote way back in the early days of this thread, who ever gets the show would be making an error trying to replicate the current show (which for the record I will miss); they should make the show their own and do it in their voice, whatever that is.
The Daily Show is like the Tonight Show. It won’t be the same without Stewart, but it’s not supposed to be. If they try to make it the same, it will probably fail. But there’s no reason that a fresh new guy or gal can’t take it to another level.
They never were in.
By out, he meant they are leaving the show entirely.
If that’s what he meant, it was incorrect, at least with respect to Bee. From the article: