Jon Stewart appears on Colbert's 'Late Night': How duo changed pop culture, politics
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Molly Driscoll Staff writer
Jon Stewart, former host of the influential Comedy Central program 鈥淭he Daily Show,鈥� recently appeared on the CBS program of his former colleague Stephen Colbert.
Mr. Stewart appeared on CBS鈥檚 鈥淭he Late Night with Stephen Colbert鈥� on Jan. 31 to discuss President Trump鈥檚 recent actions.聽
Pretending to read an executive order as Mr. Trump, Stewart said, 鈥淲e have never faced this before. Purposeful, vindictive chaos. But perhaps therein lies the saving grace of my, Donald J. Trump's presidency. No one action will be adequate. All actions will be necessary. And if we do not allow Donald Trump to exhaust our fight, and somehow come through this presidency calamity-less and constitutionally partially intact, then I, Donald J. Trump, will have demonstrated the greatness of America, just not how I thought I was gonna.鈥澛�
Stewart and Mr. Colbert both appeared on 鈥淭he Daily Show鈥� beginning in the late 1990s. Colbert then starred on his own Comedy Central program, 鈥淭he Colbert Report,鈥� beginning in 2005. He moved to CBS in 2015.聽
Stewart is not currently on a program, though HBO programming president near the end of 2016 that a previously announced animated show by Stewart that will depict what goes on at cable news could be set to go 鈥渕aybe by February or March.鈥�
While hosting 鈥淭he Daily Show鈥� and 鈥淭he Colbert Report,鈥� respectively, Stewart and Colbert had an enormous impact on pop culture and politics. wrote in 2015 that 鈥淛on Stewart changed the world.鈥� Under Stewart鈥檚 leadership, 鈥楾he Daily Show鈥� evolved from an obviously tongue-in-cheek parody of TV news presenters to a show that seriously critiqued the underlying messages of news programmes themselves and truly skewered those in power, often confronting politicians in person with questions pure news shows were too polite to ask.鈥� Ms. Armstrong noted that Stewart came in at number one for Time Magazine鈥檚 2009 鈥渕ost trusted newcaster in America鈥� poll.聽
Meanwhile, 聽wrote that 鈥淐olbert Report鈥� had 鈥渁n impact on the political zeitgeist that is well-nigh incalculable.鈥�
