History YMMV / TheDailyShowWithJonStewart

* BrokenBase: Jon's increasing bias towards liberals and against conservatives, with some saying he was willing to look the other way for most major liberal mis-steps in direct contrast to jumping onto ''anything'' that could make Conservatives look bad.

* InternetBackdraft: Stewart's first show upon his return in 2024 had a mixed reception as his commentary gave the impression that he considered both Trump and Biden to be acceptable choices, saying both men were "vibrant" and "capable" and treating the race like an ordinary election rather than one that could have serious consequences for the country, even saying that it doesn't really matter which candidate wins. This drew significant criticism, such as [[https://marytrump.substack.com/p/jon-stewarts-danger-to-democracy this piece by Mary Trump]] which accused him of turning young people off from politics with similar rhetoric in the past.

** Back when Jon was still young and innocent, on the first day after a break, Stewart ran a story about financial troubles, and when he saw Bush's... [[TheFool Bush-like]] commentary on the subject, his response was a cheerful "we're doomed!" The date? September 10, 2001. The show's break would be extended a bit. This also extends to how the segment was followed by a story about oil dependency and alternative energy, as the wars in the Middle East following 9/11 were widely accused of being done solely for the region's oil.[[note]]Right down to the UsefulNotes/{{conspiracy theor|ies}}y that 9/11 was manufactured by the U.S. government specifically for that.[[/note]]

** In the November 6th, 2016 episode of ''Series/LastWeekTonightWithJohnOliver'' Oliver, in addition to the clip listed under FunnyAneurysmMoment, also shows ''The Daily Show'' clip from 2008 where both he and Jon Stewart proclaim that Chicago Cubs will never, ever win the World Series. They were proven wrong in 2016, which Oliver acknowledges.

--->'''Steve:''' I missed you!
--->'''Jon:''' I missed you!
--->'''Audience:''' Aww
--->'''Jon:''' Talk about a third wheel.

* OnceAcceptableTargets: Subverted. Jon Stewart (a Jew) gives all his correspondents passes to [[NWordPrivileges make as many Jew jokes as they please]].

* BaseBreakingCharacter: Jessica Williams. Depending on who you ask she's either a brutally honest, hilarious EnsembleDarkhorse or an annoying SoapboxSadie who drags down the show every time she appears.

* FunnyAneurysmMoment:

* GeniusBonus:
** When covering Dov Hikind's Purim blackface [[http://thedailyshow.cc.com/videos/ee8ncd/crazy-stupid-dov---the-war-on-purim scandal]], correspondent Jessica Williams goes into a long tirade about the "War on Purim" and references obscure Jewish traditions. Throughout the segment, Jon actually struggles to keep a straight face.
--->'''Jon:''' Somewhere, there is a rabbinical college laughing their asses off at this. Meanwhile, we got an audience of Lutherans going, "I don't know, I thought he was gonna talk about the sequester."
** At the start of the "Go Fuck Yourself, Bernie Goldberg" segment, a man named Toppington Von Monocle protests Goldberg's assertion that Jon's audience is unsophisticated by quoting Catullus 16. The line he uses ([[spoiler:I will sodomize and face-fuck you]]) sounds so over-the-top that one assumes that Jon and his writers made it up, but no, that's what it actually means.
* GrowingTheBeard:
** Jon Stewart's run is generally credited with turning the show from a light parody of local news to a deep and incisive political satire.
** Within Stewart's run in itself, it's a tossup between the show's coverage of the 2000 presidential election fiasco and Jon's speech on the show's first episode after 9/11 for the moment the show evolved from being a carbon copy of Kilborn's run into the political satire it became known for.

-->''Wiki/{{Wikipedia}}:'' ''Earth (The Book)'' is a 2010 humor parody satire book written by the authors of the popular television program ''The John Daly Show''

** The Gitmo segments had Jon holding a hand puppet in front of one camera (with the Guantanomo background) while he spoke into the other. Except for the one time he accidentally moved his puppet arm into the same frame as his own face. {{Corpsing}} ensued.

* FoeYay: If him and Bill O'Reilly aren't this...

-->'''Jon:''' ''[examining bleeding hand]'' That's not good...
* VindicatedByHistory: Charlton Heston's speech at the NRA conference, which occurred shortly after the Columbine shootings was given poignant context and praised in light of the "Ground Zero Mosque" debate in 2010.

** Back when Jon was still young and innocent, on the first day after a break, Stewart ran a story about financial troubles, and when he saw Bush's... [[TheFool Bush-like]] commentary on the subject, his response was a cheerful "we're doomed!" He then went on to do a story about oil dependency and alternative energy. The date? September 10, 2001. The show's break would be extended a bit.
** Saying that Bob Novak contains "the cure for the cure for cancer", and than rather than having a mid-life crisis Novak is having an "''end of life'' crisis", only for it to be revealed a week later that the man ''had brain cancer'', and that he died a year later from it, could not have been what Jon Stewart intended.
** During the 2004 presidential election, Jon jokingly asked, "If Bush loses, will he leave or will he just say, 'I don't read the papers'?". At that time, it was inconceivable that a President would not concede if he lost the election. When Donald Trump lost to Joe Biden in 2020, he refused to concede.

** February 17, 2011 Aasif Mandvi makes up the fake "Qu'osby Show" to help people adjust to Muslims like the ''Cosby Show'' supposedly did for African Americans, and his "test audience" (who thought they were watching a real show) insisted that the family was too normal and needed "a terrorist uncle in the basement" or were "secretly very jihad" to seem like they were really Muslims to viewers. Cut to December 13 and the show ''All American Muslim'' is getting flak for showing Muslims as "normal people" and not focusing on the more extremist parts of the religion.
*** And then in 2015, Bill Cosby was accused by multiple women of being a serial rapist, as if this segment wasn't awkward in hindsight enough.

** On February 24, 2014, Larry Wilmore retorted Andrew Napolitano's assertion that if UsefulNotes/AbrahamLincoln left the southern slave-holding states alone, then slavery would have died from natural causes and UsefulNotes/TheAmericanCivilWar would have been averted, by saying "The South was so committed to slavery '''''Lincoln''''' didn't die from natural causes!"

* GrowingTheBeard: Jon Stewart's run is generally credited with turning the show from a light parody of local news to a deep and incisive political satire. If there was ever any doubt that Jon is America's best newsman, remember the 9/11 responders bill? As it turns out, Jon's [[BerserkButton rage]] over the fact that the bill had not been passed was credited as being ''instrumental'' in the bills resurrection and [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome passing into law]].

%% ** With the underwear bombing, there was [[http://www.cc.com/video-clips/o1oycg/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-moment-of-zen---calvin-trillin-s-prediction this]].
%% ** There's also a segment from a 1991 HBO comedy special with Jon Stewart talking about the first Gulf War and complaining about how short it was when the pundits were fearing it would become 'a second Vietnam'. Twelve years later...
%% ** Michael Steele, the former chairman of the Republican National Committee, talks about the coming of a left-wing protest group at 06:50 in [[http://www.cc.com/video-clips/r0051s/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-michael-steele this clip]]. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupy_movement A month or two later...]]

* BaseBreakingCharacter: Jessica Williams. Depending on who you ask she's either a brutally honest, hilarious EnsembleDarkhorse or an annoying SoapboxSadie [[TheScrappy Scrappy]] who drags down the show every time she appears.

** Willie Geist's disapproving glare is well on the way to this.

** "Indecision 2000" started as a funny play on words, then got funnier when it turned out to be the ''perfect'' title for that particular election.
** With the underwear bombing, there was [[http://www.cc.com/video-clips/o1oycg/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-moment-of-zen---calvin-trillin-s-prediction this]].
** There's also a segment from a 1991 HBO comedy special with Jon Stewart talking about the first Gulf War and complaining about how short it was when the pundits were fearing it would become 'a second Vietnam'. Twelve years later...
** Michael Steele, the former chairman of the Republican National Committee, talks about the coming of a left-wing protest group at 06:50 in [[http://www.cc.com/video-clips/r0051s/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-michael-steele this clip]]. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupy_movement A month or two later...]]

** After the first Presidential debate between a dagger staring Mitt Romney and an Obama cardboard cutout, Jon showed various liberal pundits attempting to play "Polish that turd", attempting to make Obama's performance look better or excuse it. Then, fast forward about thirty minutes, Stephen Colbert proceeds to do THE. EXACT. SAME. THING.
** In [[http://www.cc.com/video-clips/fpg8ti/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-intro---marathon a 2000 show intro,]] Stewart jokes that marathons are a lot like elections in that they're always won by a Kenyan or a Moroccan.

** In 1999, billionaire presidential candidate Steve Forbes [[http://www.cc.com/video-clips/kfpdwr/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-indecision-2000---2000-gop-debate was jokingly asked]] by Vance [=DeGeneres=] in a post-debate press conference whether he was wealthy enough to bus enough out-of-state voters to New Hampshire to swing the primary in his favour (which, of course, would constitute massive voter fraud). [[https://youtu.be/hTt5SSLOuCQ?t=409 Eighteen years later]], billionaire ''president'' UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump would claim that illegal voters were bussed to New Hampshire, [[Administrivia/RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment supposedly]] causing him to lose electoral votes there.
** When Creator/PeterDinklage came on the show to promote ''Film/TheStationAgent'', he joked that instead of assuming that people looking and pointing at him on the street are doing so because of his size, he now assumes that people are recognizing him from this extremely niche indie film. Given how Dinklage's career has massively took off with ''Series/GameOfThrones'', he has far more legitimate reasons to believe this.
** There's a segment where Samantha Bee tries to take over the show so a woman could host it for a change. Eventually she would leave the show to host ''Series/FullFrontalWithSamanthaBee,'' which has an extremely similar format to ''The Daily Show.''

** During the 2008 Democratic national convention, ''The Daily Show'' played a satirical biographical film about then-nominee UsefulNotes/BarackObama called [[http://www.cc.com/video-clips/xzy8n3/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-barack-obama--he-completes-us--2008- "Barack Obama: He Completes Us"]], which parodied ''Disney/TheLionKing''. In the 2011 White House Correspondents' Dinner, now-President Obama {{troll}}ed Fox News and [[ConspiracyTheorist the birthers]], particularly UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump, by playing footage of what he claimed was from his birth, before revealing it was really the opening of ''The Lion King''.

* EarWorm: [[http://www.cc.com/video-clips/sixd7e/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-sean-of-the-fled---stay-mr--hannity--stay "Stay, Mr. Hannity, staaaay..."]]

** In 1999, billionaire presidential candidate Steve Forbes [[http://www.cc.com/video-clips/kfpdwr/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-indecision-2000---2000-gop-debate was jokingly asked]] by Vance [=DeGeneres=] in a post-debate press conference whether he was wealthy enough to bus enough out-of-state voters to New Hampshire to swing the primary in his favour (which, of course, would constitute massive voter fraud). [[https://youtu.be/hTt5SSLOuCQ?t=409 Eighteen years later]], billionaire ''president'' UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump would claim that illegal voters were bussed to New Hampshire, [[RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgement supposedly]] causing him to lose electoral votes there.

* AwesomeMusic:

* HoYay: Played for humor many times, especially between Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert.
** Jon and Stephen seem to actively encourage it.

** And so, so much between Jon and [[http://thedailyshow.cc.com/videos/hmrcvq/brian-williams Brian Williams]].
*** Brian Williams and [[http://thedailyshow.cc.com/videos/k40xmh/tech-talch---chatroulette Chatroulette]]. That is all.
** And between Jon and [[http://thedailyshow.cc.com/videos/eminzb/ricky-gervais Ricky Gervais]].

** Early on, there was [[http://thedailyshow.cc.com/videos/7vu9yn/mike-myers that bit]] with [[Film/AustinPowers Mike Myers]].