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[–] 48 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Jon Stewart is the Millennial Walter Cronkite.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    I just wish he'd have gotten into politics.

    But I cant blame him after the hit job Al Franken got for being a progressive outsider.

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago (9 children)

    Fuck yeah, man. He was the best

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago (8 children)

    I've had major respect for him since he was on crossfire way back in the day. He took those guys to school and then beat them (verbally) like a rented mule. Crossfire went off the air shortly after his appearance. If you have never seen that episode do yourself a favor and go watch it.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    And the painful thing is that all that dressdown, which should have ended careers, resulted in was to set Tucker Carlson on a path of becoming the face of the extreme right.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    I really hope he changes his mind and runs for office at some point. I'd vote for him for president.

    And shit. I just realized where this was posted. This isn't related to trek at all but why the fuck not.

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  • [–] [S] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Come to Quark's, Quark's is fun!

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    I'm not really a bar kind of guy but if there was a quarks type place near me I might hang out there. There are a couple of "barcades" in my city and at least one of them has some punk and other rock shows on the regular, I keep meaning to take the time and check them out.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago

    Watching The Colbert Report and Daily Show in the 2000s was something I always looked forward to each night. It'll be nice to have Jon back, if only once a week.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago

    This is awesome! Love to have Jon Stewart back, and I also love to see the correspondents take over the host role more often.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    "The Problem with Jon Stewart" should have a high school or college course structured around it--it was a great series.

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  • you can't even get him to host it daily? at this point just shutter the show. there's plenty of people doing good lib/progressive political comedy (and way more doing it badly), but a legacy network like Comedy Central has nothing to offer them.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    They should have given it to Adam Friedland.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I think that, with everybody else zigging, they should zag. Give it to Stavros and make it completely apolitical, just bring celebrities on to talk about their dicks.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    It's kind of a shame that Taylor Tomlinson didn't get a shot at this instead of...whatever the terrible show she just started is.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Fwiw:

    Stewart, who spent 16 years at the show, the majority of them Emmy-winning, will be heavily involved as an executive producer on the other nights as well.

    But yeah we'll see - they are offering him a ton of work that just isn't worth it, but if he is willing...

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago*

    There was a time when I would have praised Stewart for getting out while the getting was good (ignoring his awful podcast), but it looks like he wants to go the way of Stephen Colbert instead. RIP in peace you god damn liberal.

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    Hell yes, I was never a fan of Trevor Noah personally.

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