# The Daily Show, Thursday June 16th (or lack thereof) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 18, 2011, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-show-thursday-june-16th-or-lack-thereof/585906 "2011-06-18T02:46:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![bienville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2011, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-show-thursday-june-16th-or-lack-thereof/585906/1 "2011-06-18T02:46:34Z")
_The Daily Show_ and _The Colbert Report_ were NOT in repeats this week until an unexpected (unexpected to _me_ anyway) absence on Thursday night. What gives? 4 Day Father’s Day Weekend? Reluctance to cover the Weiner resignation? Just rewatched the “Moment of Zen” from Wednesday’s episode. Jon says “That’s it for The Daily Show. Join us next week at 11. Here it is, your moment of Zen.” So, as early as Wednesday, anyway, they knew there’d be no Thursday show- so, it can’t be Weiner Resignation related (unless, Weiner called Stewart on Wednesday- seems highly unlikely). So . . . a three show week? This is unusual, isn’t it? Do they do three show weeks from time to time, and I just hadn’t noticed before? I figured it was always either a week of repeats or new shows Monday through Thursday. ---
**Author:** ![boytyperanma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4491bb/32.png) [@boytyperanma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boytyperanma)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2011, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-show-thursday-june-16th-or-lack-thereof/585906/2 "2011-06-18T04:01:34Z")
I was disappointed to to find the repeats as well. I don’t think there was any deep meaning behind it. John Stewart has a pretty full plate at the moment and might have just scheduled a little more time away from producing the shows. Maybe so he could get more office or appointments, maybe because he wanted an extra day of vacation. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2011, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-show-thursday-june-16th-or-lack-thereof/585906/3 "2011-06-18T14:49:45Z")
Ending on a Wednesday is unusual for them, yes. It was probably scheduled this way so Colbert could give commencement address at Northwestern University on Friday morning. ---
**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:** [June 18, 2011, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-daily-show-thursday-june-16th-or-lack-thereof/585906/4 "2011-06-18T19:54:44Z")
FYI, [here](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6tiaooiIo0) is a link to a YouTube video of Colbert’s commencement speech.