The Daily Show with Jon Stewart

Man, I feel bad for Jessica Williams, because ultimately what's gonna happen is she'll be forced to host just by default.

Who knows, maybe John Oliver's show won't be renewed for a third season and he'll come back. Otherwise, maybe there will be an entirely new cast and everyone will hate it.

HBO's already renewed Last Week Tonight for next year.

I never really expected them to promote internally anyway. I always kind of thought they'd go for somebody completely new.

Ahhh. Alas, I liked Oliver better on TDS :P

But yeah, TDS is lookin' pretty screwed, since there's not really anyone lined up who could take over effectively.

Fingers still crossed for Tiny Fey or Amy Poehler or John Mayer or Aasif Mandvi or Wyatt Cenac.

I entered that contest to get tickets to the last show, but since I only put in enough money to be a supporter and they're doing the thing where the more money you donate the better your chances are I think my chances of winning are really slim.

I guess they'll figure it out. The Daily Show has become an institution after all; Comedy Central will make it work. I imagine even without Jon at the show, he'll likely have some kind of input.

Maybe Seth Rollins will be able to host The Daily Show after all.

edited 7th Mar '15 7:33:42 AM by higherbrainpattern

I've heard they've found a relatively unknown guy named Craig Kilborn to take over as the host.

Ha ha ha-don't even joke about that >:/

The Selma episode from Monday night was simultaneously heartwarming and disheartening.

Heartwarming because how can you not be overwhelmed by John Lewis' story? It's so inspiring.

Disheartening because CNN chose to cover the Selma anniversary by masturbating on air over their new camera drone; and Fox News got all fired up over President Bush being cropped out of a photo of the marchers.

Miss the message much, folks?

Not at all, they just didn't care about the message and wanted to use the anniversary as an excuse to shove their own message down everyone's throats.

Question: Why did Jon keep mispronouncing Rob Cordry's name? Some kind of in-joke i'm missing?

With Jason Jones and Samantha Bee gone, I think that makes them the last remaining "senior" correspondents.

Aasif is usually given a "senior [x] correspondent" title.

The way he was pronouncing it sounded like how it would be pronounced with a Boston accent, and according to Wikipedia, Rob is from Massachusetts. So yeah, probably a nickname.

edited 14th Mar '15 8:29:07 AM by BadWolf21

Aren't all the correspondents "senior" ones?

Sam and Jason are arguably the last of the classic correspondents to leave, though. They've been on the show for a long, long, long time. Sam joined the show in 2003, Jason in 2005. Aasif actually joined in 2006, so he's not that far behind Jason. So I guess he could still count as a classic correspondent.

Still, the others all joined within the past 4 years. (Al Madrigal in 2011, Jessica Williams in 2012, Jordan Klepper and Hasan Minhaj in 2014.

The "senior" bit is a gag. Whenever someone is introduced for a segment, they are always the "senior [x] correspondent", where [x] is something ridiculously narrow.

You forgot John Hodgman.

Hodgman isn't a correspondent, he's just a regular on the show. Same with Lewis Black.

I like all of the correspondents. It's like SNL, with new ones being introduced.

Everyone's jumping ship! The only people who are going to be left for the finale are the awful new meat.

Sam and Aasif better get their own send offs.

Aasif isn't leaving, is he?

I'm sure Sam will get her own send-off. She was on the show even longer than Jason.

And I actually like the current correspondents. I think they're all really good. I'm especially hoping for a lot more from the South African guy, whose name I forget.

Hasan Minhaj's last field piece was actually really impressive. He reminds me of a younger Jason Jones, playing the cocksure idiot.

Going by his Twitter, the reason Trevor Noah isn't on more often is that he still lives in South Africa.

Of the new correspondents, Jessica Williams and Al Madrigal are my favorites. Their field pieces are always amazing and hard hitting.

edited 28th Mar '15 4:40:25 AM by lrrose

According to rumors, Trevor Noah is on the short list to replace Jon.

He could work. A fresh face with late-night and comedy chops. I really liked his material so far on the show.

Knowing he hosted a late-night show in South Africa does catapult him up the list of people to be considered, for sure.

I wonder of Bassem Youssef is being considered at all.