comment_id,post_id,post_title,body,score,created_utc
kq3h62n,1ap38zi,Jon Stewart Says ‘Daily Show’ Return Was Prompted by Wanting to Have a “Place to Unload Thoughts” Ahead of 2024 Election,"His first episode airs tonight

Stewart:

>“I very much wanted to have some place to unload thoughts as we get into this election season,” Stewart said, then referring to The Problem With Jon Stewart not moving forward with a third season on the streamer. “I thought I was going to do it over at — they call it Apple TV+. It’s a television enclave, very small. It’s like living in Malibu. They decided, they felt that they didn’t want me to say things that might get me in trouble.”

>“I don’t know about hoping to have an influence, but I’m hoping to have a catharsis and a way to comment on things and a way to express them that hopefully people will enjoy. But as far as influence, and you guys know from doing this, just about everything I had wanted to happen over the 16 years that I was at The Daily Show did not happen, if you were hoping for influence. And I think I’ve learned that post-Daily Show … I don’t really view it as ‘I really want to have an influence on this issue, this election,’ things like that.”",668,2024-02-12 16:02:32
kq3k5rd,1ap38zi,Jon Stewart Says ‘Daily Show’ Return Was Prompted by Wanting to Have a “Place to Unload Thoughts” Ahead of 2024 Election,"While I think Jon Stewart somewhat underestimates just how influential he actually was, it’s also very obviously true that the political and media landscapes have not moved in the direction he so clearly hoped they would.

At his height, I think he was always pretty clear-eyed about the state of things, but you can pretty visibly track his disillusionment with the ability to change the *direction* of things over the course of his run and what he did after.",613,2024-02-12 16:20:33
kq3mgjq,1ap38zi,Jon Stewart Says ‘Daily Show’ Return Was Prompted by Wanting to Have a “Place to Unload Thoughts” Ahead of 2024 Election,And then he loses his show on Apple because they wouldn't let him say anything about China and AI.,350,2024-02-12 16:33:57
kq3jeib,1ap38zi,Jon Stewart Says ‘Daily Show’ Return Was Prompted by Wanting to Have a “Place to Unload Thoughts” Ahead of 2024 Election,"I feel like he's re-entering the ring with the best of intentions, but in actual practice we're just going to watch him die inside.",349,2024-02-12 16:16:01
kq46223,1ap38zi,Jon Stewart Says ‘Daily Show’ Return Was Prompted by Wanting to Have a “Place to Unload Thoughts” Ahead of 2024 Election,"My problem with Last Week Tonight is that I'm already exhausted from all the widely publicized problems in the world and then he comes along and dumps an entirely new, lesser-known and equally terrible problem into my brain.  It's not that I don't care, it's that I don't have the mental bandwidth.

I still watch it but sometimes I'll jet after a few minutes if it starts to depress me.  I enjoy the random rabbit holes he'll get into like this recent one with Chuck E. Cheese.",157,2024-02-12 18:26:18
kq3vffa,1ap38zi,Jon Stewart Says ‘Daily Show’ Return Was Prompted by Wanting to Have a “Place to Unload Thoughts” Ahead of 2024 Election,He has affected positive change for the 9/11 community. I think that fortifies him a lot.,131,2024-02-12 17:25:48
kq3vp28,1ap38zi,Jon Stewart Says ‘Daily Show’ Return Was Prompted by Wanting to Have a “Place to Unload Thoughts” Ahead of 2024 Election,"It was also incredibly boring. I’m curious, but have a feeling him returning to the Daily Show might reveal that he was a good fit for the time he was popular and hasn’t quite kept up with what works today.",122,2024-02-12 17:27:20
kq3jwbz,1ap38zi,Jon Stewart Says ‘Daily Show’ Return Was Prompted by Wanting to Have a “Place to Unload Thoughts” Ahead of 2024 Election,Keep on F’ing that chicken Jon.,118,2024-02-12 16:18:59
kq3ldqv,1ap38zi,Jon Stewart Says ‘Daily Show’ Return Was Prompted by Wanting to Have a “Place to Unload Thoughts” Ahead of 2024 Election,"Are we pretending that every semi political late night host wasn't already doing this? Kimmel, Colbert, Meyers, Oliver, Bee, Noah all couldn't get it done combined but Stewart would've single handedly set the record straight?

All it would've resulted in is more content. It would not have moved the needle in this country at all.",92,2024-02-12 16:27:39
kq4yt6v,1ap38zi,Jon Stewart Says ‘Daily Show’ Return Was Prompted by Wanting to Have a “Place to Unload Thoughts” Ahead of 2024 Election,[deleted],75,2024-02-12 21:08:59
kq4j48f,1ap38zi,Jon Stewart Says ‘Daily Show’ Return Was Prompted by Wanting to Have a “Place to Unload Thoughts” Ahead of 2024 Election,"I wouldn't call his his show on Apple boring, but more of depressing. It dealt a lot of heavy handed problems but no real point rather than addressing the problem. Last Week Tonight did a much better job on that format. Stewart is at his best in satire.",75,2024-02-12 19:40:36
kq3zmmv,1ap38zi,Jon Stewart Says ‘Daily Show’ Return Was Prompted by Wanting to Have a “Place to Unload Thoughts” Ahead of 2024 Election,Does anyone know where to stream it?,63,2024-02-12 17:49:41
kq3vrmd,1ap38zi,Jon Stewart Says ‘Daily Show’ Return Was Prompted by Wanting to Have a “Place to Unload Thoughts” Ahead of 2024 Election,"I highly, highly doubt that. He's only entering this arena with the largest of fortitudes. We are talking about a guy who quite literally had to shame Congress into providing money to 9/11 heroes dying of early cancer. Go watch him talk about it, not just the speeches he did, but the behind the scenes when he talks about the Herculean effort required to get that bill passed.

No, no, if he was dead inside he wouldn't come back. Not after that.",63,2024-02-12 17:27:44
kq41c9t,1ap38zi,Jon Stewart Says ‘Daily Show’ Return Was Prompted by Wanting to Have a “Place to Unload Thoughts” Ahead of 2024 Election,Paramount+ the next day,58,2024-02-12 17:59:25
kq3znhm,1ap38zi,Jon Stewart Says ‘Daily Show’ Return Was Prompted by Wanting to Have a “Place to Unload Thoughts” Ahead of 2024 Election,"And even more recently, he shamed enough Republicans who had quickly switched their votes to ""no"" to block the passage of the Pact Act, which among other things provides assistance to veterans who developed illnesses due to their exposure to toxic burn pits, including Beau Biden, who died from brain cancer that was almost assuredly caused by his own exposure to those pits.",57,2024-02-12 17:49:49
kq4webv,1ap38zi,Jon Stewart Says ‘Daily Show’ Return Was Prompted by Wanting to Have a “Place to Unload Thoughts” Ahead of 2024 Election,"I think part of the problem is that people are hoping for another devastating Crossfire moment where Jon Stewart just totally obliterates some right wing scumbag, but times a thousand. They want him to issue an oratory burn so brutal and so final that it takes down the right wing entirely. And that's not possible. If he could have done it, he would have done it 20 years ago. I mean, I think a lot of people were hoping Tucker Carlson's career was over after that one Crossfire episode in 2005, but the douchebag had a fox news show for years and was just fawning over Putin last week.

I wonder if some of the frustration we hear from Jon Stewart stems from the fact that it's not that easy, it was never going to be that easy. And yet people seem to think that one day the right combination of words will come out of Jon Stewart's mouth and the right wing will truly be destroyed forever.",53,2024-02-12 20:55:23
kq442nn,1ap38zi,Jon Stewart Says ‘Daily Show’ Return Was Prompted by Wanting to Have a “Place to Unload Thoughts” Ahead of 2024 Election,"I'm guessing delivery.

People want those bite sized tick tock reels BS and Stewart is an orator who prefers to deep dive.

Its also why I think Last Week Tonight isn't as big as it used to be, IMO.",51,2024-02-12 18:15:06
kq3xx8d,1ap38zi,Jon Stewart Says ‘Daily Show’ Return Was Prompted by Wanting to Have a “Place to Unload Thoughts” Ahead of 2024 Election,"I think the turning point was his Rally to Restore Sanity, when he truly took a huge step out of his comic circle into a political/activist one, only to watch as the Tea Party took massive gains in the ensuing election. Can't help but think that really jaded his confidence to the state of things and whether or not what he was doing was actually getting normal, sane people out to vote, or just creating a liberal circlejerk.",48,2024-02-12 17:40:02
kq41kfd,1ap38zi,Jon Stewart Says ‘Daily Show’ Return Was Prompted by Wanting to Have a “Place to Unload Thoughts” Ahead of 2024 Election,[deleted],48,2024-02-12 18:00:43
kq3n3yc,1ap38zi,Jon Stewart Says ‘Daily Show’ Return Was Prompted by Wanting to Have a “Place to Unload Thoughts” Ahead of 2024 Election,"Yeah, all the hosts, except Conan were talking about Trump 24/7. At some point it looked like they have the same writers, because the jokes were so similar. And you coul see how they lost their mind the day Trump won",43,2024-02-12 16:37:44
kq4ha31,1ap38zi,Jon Stewart Says ‘Daily Show’ Return Was Prompted by Wanting to Have a “Place to Unload Thoughts” Ahead of 2024 Election,"Humans just aren't built for that type of stuff. It's the same problem with [doomscrolling](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomscrolling).

It's not that people are purposefully choosing to be ignorant of all the problems with the world, it's that it is just so psychologically unhealthy to be thinking about all of that stuff all the time.",41,2024-02-12 19:30:04
kq40g3w,1ap38zi,Jon Stewart Says ‘Daily Show’ Return Was Prompted by Wanting to Have a “Place to Unload Thoughts” Ahead of 2024 Election,Is Reddit ready for his covid theory? They hated when trump said the same stuff Jon has been saying months prior,40,2024-02-12 17:54:20
kq4c6v8,1ap38zi,Jon Stewart Says ‘Daily Show’ Return Was Prompted by Wanting to Have a “Place to Unload Thoughts” Ahead of 2024 Election,"I stopped with Last Week Tonight because it became too highly editorialized, and too often the interjection of humor was misplaced, distracting, and forced. Also he covered a few topics that are within my realm of expertise and either got some important aspects wrong, or completely skipped over critical nuances that didn't fit the narrative of the story he was trying to tell. That got me wondering how skewed the reporting was on the other topics I'm less knowledgeable about, making me doubt the veracity of his show. On top of all that, so many of the stories he chooses to cover are just so darn negative. I don't need that in my life right now.",38,2024-02-12 19:00:50
kq48ets,1ap38zi,Jon Stewart Says ‘Daily Show’ Return Was Prompted by Wanting to Have a “Place to Unload Thoughts” Ahead of 2024 Election,"Jon Stewart would have been banned from most subs, that tells you all you need to know about how out of touch most redditors are compared to the real world",36,2024-02-12 18:39:35
kq477ya,1ap38zi,Jon Stewart Says ‘Daily Show’ Return Was Prompted by Wanting to Have a “Place to Unload Thoughts” Ahead of 2024 Election,"When he was at the heights of his popularity, there *was* much more of a middle. Mitt Romney was considered pretty extreme, and he's now one of the most sane GOP members. 

If you've watched his new stuff, he doesn't hold any room for wiggling out of admitting awful belief systems. I'm curious how that will affect the intersection of the comedy with the harder hitting news, but we'll see.",36,2024-02-12 18:32:53
kq3xq9b,1ap38zi,Jon Stewart Says ‘Daily Show’ Return Was Prompted by Wanting to Have a “Place to Unload Thoughts” Ahead of 2024 Election,">They decided, they felt that they didn’t want me to say things that might get me in trouble.”

Lmao the diplomacy. Apple wanted to avoid them getting in trouble with China.",33,2024-02-12 17:38:55
kq3y6hr,1ap38zi,Jon Stewart Says ‘Daily Show’ Return Was Prompted by Wanting to Have a “Place to Unload Thoughts” Ahead of 2024 Election,"I feel like his goal this year is to get people motivated to go out and vote, even if they're disillusioned with the state of the country. That will be the key in November.

(Or at least it should be.)",30,2024-02-12 17:41:30
kq3hnwk,1ap38zi,Jon Stewart Says ‘Daily Show’ Return Was Prompted by Wanting to Have a “Place to Unload Thoughts” Ahead of 2024 Election,I rarely feel good about things politically these days but today is a rare exception.,29,2024-02-12 16:05:33
kq4e43w,1ap38zi,Jon Stewart Says ‘Daily Show’ Return Was Prompted by Wanting to Have a “Place to Unload Thoughts” Ahead of 2024 Election,Or his crusade for first responders - a broadly popular issue he had to go scorched earth to get attention for,28,2024-02-12 19:11:54
kq4994b,1ap38zi,Jon Stewart Says ‘Daily Show’ Return Was Prompted by Wanting to Have a “Place to Unload Thoughts” Ahead of 2024 Election,"While I agree with your point, it's worth pointing out that Oliver is *absolutely* doing the same thing - he often hides his political ""activism"" behind the ""I'm just a comedian"" bit and often foregoes a fair and balanced examination of topics to chase a punchline.",27,2024-02-12 18:44:19
kq45xdn,1ap38zi,Jon Stewart Says ‘Daily Show’ Return Was Prompted by Wanting to Have a “Place to Unload Thoughts” Ahead of 2024 Election,[deleted],27,2024-02-12 18:25:34
kq4kecy,1ap38zi,Jon Stewart Says ‘Daily Show’ Return Was Prompted by Wanting to Have a “Place to Unload Thoughts” Ahead of 2024 Election,"I figure most of it will end up on YouTube too, at least this week",24,2024-02-12 19:47:54
kq42hht,1ap38zi,Jon Stewart Says ‘Daily Show’ Return Was Prompted by Wanting to Have a “Place to Unload Thoughts” Ahead of 2024 Election,"There are codes for a free month. Then when you go to cancel it, they offer you two more free months.",24,2024-02-12 18:06:00
kq3s8dl,1ap38zi,Jon Stewart Says ‘Daily Show’ Return Was Prompted by Wanting to Have a “Place to Unload Thoughts” Ahead of 2024 Election,"I wouldn’t say it was awful but it wasn’t as good as the daily show. It was like a less funny version of last week tonight, and when the OG starts doing imitations…sad times",24,2024-02-12 17:07:25
kq4y14j,1ap38zi,Jon Stewart Says ‘Daily Show’ Return Was Prompted by Wanting to Have a “Place to Unload Thoughts” Ahead of 2024 Election,"I mean that even happened on The Problem with Jon Stewart. He really shut down Senator Nathan Dahm, made him look like a  total idiot and it didn't do anything, because there was no resolution.",24,2024-02-12 21:04:37
kq3tbwa,1ap38zi,Jon Stewart Says ‘Daily Show’ Return Was Prompted by Wanting to Have a “Place to Unload Thoughts” Ahead of 2024 Election,"The first step to changing things is people on the left assaulting the public notion that we have a left wing media. We actually have a very right wing corporatist media that has a thing veneer of social awareness / progressivism.  Think - everything is framed from a right wing / pro Trump viewpoint, but they will celebrate pride month / black history month.",23,2024-02-12 17:13:47
kq4sfex,1ap38zi,Jon Stewart Says ‘Daily Show’ Return Was Prompted by Wanting to Have a “Place to Unload Thoughts” Ahead of 2024 Election,Plus a LOT of those videos are just straight up wrong. I wouldn't take any Tik Tok at face value.,23,2024-02-12 20:33:18
kq4ma3t,1ap38zi,Jon Stewart Says ‘Daily Show’ Return Was Prompted by Wanting to Have a “Place to Unload Thoughts” Ahead of 2024 Election,He stopped talking about it after his interview on Colbert's show. He must have gotten a earful from his friends.,21,2024-02-12 19:58:32
kq4kixl,1ap38zi,Jon Stewart Says ‘Daily Show’ Return Was Prompted by Wanting to Have a “Place to Unload Thoughts” Ahead of 2024 Election,"It is one of those things I wish more people understood. I get being passionate about a cause, but too many get angry, yell and harass people if they don't care enough about their specific cause.",21,2024-02-12 19:48:39
kq3tjse,1ap38zi,Jon Stewart Says ‘Daily Show’ Return Was Prompted by Wanting to Have a “Place to Unload Thoughts” Ahead of 2024 Election,Welcome back Jon!,19,2024-02-12 17:15:06
kq4dzis,1ap38zi,Jon Stewart Says ‘Daily Show’ Return Was Prompted by Wanting to Have a “Place to Unload Thoughts” Ahead of 2024 Election,"> Also he covered a few topics that are within my realm of expertise and either got some important aspects wrong, or completely skipped over critical nuances that didn't fit the narrative of the story he was trying to tell.

This is almost all news these days tbh, and probably before recent times too",18,2024-02-12 19:11:09
kq3vnh4,1ap38zi,Jon Stewart Says ‘Daily Show’ Return Was Prompted by Wanting to Have a “Place to Unload Thoughts” Ahead of 2024 Election,Anyone know how to watch in Portugal?,17,2024-02-12 17:27:04
kq45cv0,1ap38zi,Jon Stewart Says ‘Daily Show’ Return Was Prompted by Wanting to Have a “Place to Unload Thoughts” Ahead of 2024 Election,"I have a bit of an issue with Stewart because he wants to have his cake and eat it  too.


He wants to be taken seriously and have a serious message but also hides behind the fact he's a comedian and not on CNN.


I think he's backed off this stance a bit but ultimately he needs to make a decision if he wants to hide behind being a comedian or wants to be a funny, political analyst, which is essentially what John Oliver has done.",17,2024-02-12 18:22:21
kq5ftd0,1ap38zi,Jon Stewart Says ‘Daily Show’ Return Was Prompted by Wanting to Have a “Place to Unload Thoughts” Ahead of 2024 Election,"Lab leak went from ""should be banned on social media"" to a respectable possibility, if still unlikely.  It was a reasonable speculation and did not need to be turned into such a culture war point.

Stewart not jumping on board of the hivemind shutdown of conversation is a credit to him.",17,2024-02-12 22:46:20
kq3xx6f,1ap38zi,Jon Stewart Says ‘Daily Show’ Return Was Prompted by Wanting to Have a “Place to Unload Thoughts” Ahead of 2024 Election,"This sort of confirms exactly what I thought the issue was with his show on Apple. I said previously that the show felt too politically correct and Apple railroaded him too much. There were plenty of episodes around topics he had no interest in that were just boring slogs to watch. 

Where Jon shines is when he’s in the zone ranting about a topic he’s super passionate about. It produces a lot of interesting content and generally starts a conversation that ultimately brings awareness to an issue that many people refuse to address. Hopefully we’ll see that Jon Stewart return to the Daily Show and not the Apple version that seemed so defeated.",16,2024-02-12 17:40:02
kq3os2q,1ap38zi,Jon Stewart Says ‘Daily Show’ Return Was Prompted by Wanting to Have a “Place to Unload Thoughts” Ahead of 2024 Election,Ooo that’s a deepcut,16,2024-02-12 16:47:24
kq51ovx,1ap38zi,Jon Stewart Says ‘Daily Show’ Return Was Prompted by Wanting to Have a “Place to Unload Thoughts” Ahead of 2024 Election,"He deserved to hear criticism for that. He didn't provide any evidence but basically just said it must have come from there because of the name of the lab. It absolutely could have come from there but he provided no evidence and just parroted a right wing talking point when people were getting attacked in the US for being of Asian descent. If Colbert weren't his friend Stephen would have pushed back way, way harder.",16,2024-02-12 21:25:18
kq4c763,1ap38zi,Jon Stewart Says ‘Daily Show’ Return Was Prompted by Wanting to Have a “Place to Unload Thoughts” Ahead of 2024 Election,"I’ve seen multiple viral “bit-sized” videos of Jon Stewart on the clock app with a bunch of comments from people saying they want more. 

I think returning to the show is perfect because the daily show gives him more  opportunities to do that. He’s the only interviewer I’ve seen who cuts through the BS and we need more that again.",16,2024-02-12 19:00:53
kq4gvf2,1ap38zi,Jon Stewart Says ‘Daily Show’ Return Was Prompted by Wanting to Have a “Place to Unload Thoughts” Ahead of 2024 Election,"And Romney is still horrible. Bain capital, dismembers companies for profit. Murdered toys-r-us. Mr corporations are people, my friend. Absolute trash. And for all that he's considered one of the good ones by today's standards. 

Nixon signed the EPA into law, wanted universal health care. He is still a scheming scumfuck and he's to the left of half the Democrats these days.",16,2024-02-12 19:27:44
kq4fpgb,1ap38zi,Jon Stewart Says ‘Daily Show’ Return Was Prompted by Wanting to Have a “Place to Unload Thoughts” Ahead of 2024 Election,"I agree. The humor is often wedged in and totally non-sequitur from the topic — kind of that Family Guy style that was very popular for awhile. John Oliver is SUPER funny on his own, so it’s a shame. 

I get what you’re saying on the negativity — I’m not necessarily sure how to cure that while still covering all the important topics. I think they do a nice job establishing a call to action at the end. ",16,2024-02-12 19:21:04