Jon Stewart

Stewart was born Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz at Doctors Hospital on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, New York City. His father, Donald Leibowitz (1931–2013), was an energy coordinator for the New Jersey Department of the Treasury,{{Cite web |last=Portugal |first=Randolph |date=September 15, 2009 |title=No joke: Stewart's dad taught at college |url=http://www.tcnjsignal.net/2009/09/15/no-joke-stewart%E2%80%99s-dad-taught-at-college/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110511184221/http://www.tcnjsignal.net/2009/09/15/no-joke-stewart%E2%80%99s-dad-taught-at-college/ |archive-date=May 11, 2011 |access-date=February 23, 2011 |website=The Signal |publisher=The College of New Jersey}}{{Cite web |date=June 9, 2013 |title=Donald Leibowitz |url=http://obits.nj.com/obituaries/trenton/obituary.aspx?n=donald-leibowitz&pid=165245750 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130921061446/http://obits.nj.com/obituaries/trenton/obituary.aspx?n=donald-leibowitz&pid=165245750 |archive-date=September 21, 2013 |access-date=June 28, 2013 |website=The Times |location=Trenton, New Jersey}}{{Cite book |last=Blitz |first=Michael |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hhODBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA5 |title=Jon Stewart: A Biography |date=July 15, 2014 |publisher=ABC-CLIO |isbn=978-0-313-35829-6 |pages=5 |language=en}} and his mother, Marian Leibowitz (née Laskin), was a teacher and later an educational consultant.{{Cite web |last1=Gillick |first1=Jeremy |last2=Gorilovskaya |first2=Nonna |date=November–December 2008 |title=Meet Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz (aka) Jon Stewart: The wildly zeitgeisty Daily Show host |url=http://www.momentmag.com/meet-jonathan-stuart-leibowitz-aka-jon-stewart/2 |access-date=August 26, 2014 |website=Moment |quote=Marian, a teacher turned creative educational consultant, was the daughter of Nathan Laskin |archive-date=November 17, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141117152014/http://www.momentmag.com/meet-jonathan-stuart-leibowitz-aka-jon-stewart/2/ |url-status=live}} Stewart's family is Ashkenazi Jewish (Polish-Jewish, Ukrainian-Jewish, Belarusian-Jewish, and possibly Lithuanian-Jewish); his parents had immigrated to the United States from Europe. One of his grandfathers was born in Manzhouli, present-day China.{{Cite news |date=February 25, 2013 |title=Hey Jon Stewart |work=The Huffington Post |url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/megan-smolenyak-smolenyak/hey-jon-stewart-your-roots_b_2755031.html |access-date=April 17, 2020 |archive-date=May 7, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170507041223/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/megan-smolenyak-smolenyak/hey-jon-stewart-your-roots_b_2755031.html |url-status=live}} He is the second of four sons, with older brother Lawrence and younger brothers Dan and Matthew.{{Cite web |title=Jon Stewart |url=http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0829537/bio |access-date=May 15, 2022 |website=IMDb}}

Stewart's parents divorced when he was eleven years old, and he became largely estranged from his father. Due to their strained relationship, Stewart dropped his surname and began using his middle name alone, stating: "There was a thought of using my mother's maiden name, but I thought that would be just too big [of] a 'fuck you' to my dad.... Did I have some problems with my father? Yes. Yet people always view [changing my surname] through the prism of ethnic identity."Freeman, Hadley (April 18, 2015). [https://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/apr/18/jon-stewart-why-i-quit-the-daily-show "Jon Stewart: why I quit The Daily Show "] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191216044906/https://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/apr/18/jon-stewart-why-i-quit-the-daily-show |date=December 16, 2019}}. The Guardian He had his surname legally changed to "Stewart" in 2001.{{Cite web |title=Today's entertainment report: 1) While "The Daily Show with Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz" has a certain ring ... |url=http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/jonstewart1.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061231231918/http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/jonstewart1.html |archive-date=December 31, 2006 |access-date=February 18, 2007 |website=The Smoking Gun}} In 2015, he described his relationship with his father as "still complicated" after his father's death two years earlier. Stewart and his older brother, Lawrence, who was previously the chief operating officer of NYSE Euronext (the parent company of the New York Stock Exchange),{{Cite news |date=November 26, 2013 |title=Jon Stewart's brother leaving NYSE |work=New York Post |publisher=HYP Holdings, Inc. |agency=MarketWatch |url=https://nypost.com/2013/11/26/jon-stewarts-brother-leaving-nyse/ |access-date=October 30, 2014 |archive-date=November 3, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141103051736/http://nypost.com/2013/11/26/jon-stewarts-brother-leaving-nyse/ |url-status=live}}{{Cite news |last=Johnson |first=Fawn |date=May 11, 2010 |title=NYSE Executive Is Quizzed – About His Brother, Jon Stewart |work=The Wall Street Journal |department=Washington Wire |url=https://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2010/05/11/nyse-executive-is-quizzed-about-his-brother-jon-stewart |access-date=July 6, 2015 |archive-date=July 7, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150707024811/http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2010/05/11/nyse-executive-is-quizzed-about-his-brother-jon-stewart/ |url-status=live}} grew up in Lawrenceville, New Jersey. Stewart has stated that he experienced much antisemitism as a child, having been bullied frequently due to his Jewish identity.{{Cite magazine |last=Dowd |first=Maureen |author-link=Maureen Dowd |date=November 16, 2006 |title=America's Anchors |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/news/coverstory/jon_stewart_stephen_colbert_americas_anchors/page/1 |url-status=dead |magazine=Rolling Stone |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061227192426/http://www.rollingstone.com/news/coverstory/jon_stewart_stephen_colbert_americas_anchors/page/1 |archive-date=December 27, 2006 |access-date=October 9, 2007}} He describes himself in high school as "very into Eugene Debs and a bit of a leftist."{{Cite web |last=Adato |first=Alison |year=2000 |title=Anchor Astray |url=http://home.earthlink.net/~aladato/anchor.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050116002844/http://home.earthlink.net/~aladato/anchor.html |archive-date=January 16, 2005 |access-date=March 29, 2006 |publisher=George}} Stewart grew up in the era of the Vietnam War and the Watergate scandal, which inspired in him "a healthy skepticism towards official reports." His first job was working with his brother at a Woolworth's store, and he has jokingly said that being fired by Lawrence himself was one of the "scarring events" of his youth. He has also credited renowned television producer Norman Lear as someone who "raised me."{{cite news|url=https://variety.com/2016/film/reviews/norman-lear-just-another-version-of-you-review-1201685778/|title=Sundance Film Review: 'Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You'|first=Guy|last=Lodge|work=Variety|date=January 22, 2016|access-date=February 16, 2022|archive-date=February 17, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220217024415/https://variety.com/2016/film/reviews/norman-lear-just-another-version-of-you-review-1201685778/|url-status=live}}

After graduating from Lawrence High School in 1980, Stewart attended the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, where he initially majored in chemistry before switching to psychology.{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/video/63932062/ |title=Bloomberg Game Changers: Jon Stewart |date=October 22, 2010 |type=Television production |publisher=Bloomberg Television |access-date=October 24, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101025111914/http://www.bloomberg.com/video/63932062/ |archive-date=October 25, 2010 |url-status=dead}} While at William & Mary, Stewart became a member of the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity,{{Cite web |title=Prominent Pikes |url=http://www.pikes.org/media/documents/recruitmentresources/brochure/prominent.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130921060236/http://www.pikes.org/media/documents/recruitmentresources/brochure/prominent.html |archive-date=September 21, 2013 |access-date=February 19, 2013 |publisher=Pikes.org}} but eventually began disassociating himself from other members, leaving the fraternity altogether after six months.{{Cite web |title=The Top 49 Men of 2010 |url=http://www.askmen.com/celebs/men/entertainment_150/167_jon_stewart.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081013103852/http://www.askmen.com/celebs/men/entertainment_150/167_jon_stewart.html |archive-date=October 13, 2008 |access-date=February 19, 2013 |website=AskMen.com}} "My college career was waking up late, memorizing someone else's notes, doing bong hits, and going to soccer practice", he later said.{{Cite news |last=Smith |first=Chris |date=1994 |title=The Man Who Should Be Conan |work=New York |url=https://www.vulture.com/2014/10/jon-stewarts-1994-interview-with-new-york.html |access-date=November 2, 2014 |archive-date=February 18, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190218024821/https://www.vulture.com/2014/10/jon-stewarts-1994-interview-with-new-york.html |url-status=live}} He was a three-year starter in 1981, 1982 and 1983 with the Tribe men's soccer team. He had 10 goals and 12 assists on a squad that went 40–15–9 (.695) in his three seasons with the program.[https://tribeathletics.com/news/1999/1/1/205084070.aspx Jon Stewart '84 (profile) – William & Mary Athletics.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210720050616/https://tribeathletics.com/news/1999/1/1/205084070.aspx |date=July 20, 2021}} Retrieved July 20, 2021 He is listed as Jon Leibowitz in official William & Mary Athletics records.[https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/bitstream/handle/10288/1561/2005wmmsocguide-low.pdf;jsessionid=B7A04C5B8B410F61113AF0FDDFCF4012?sequence=24 William & Mary Men's Soccer 2005 Media Guide (scroll down to page 54).] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210720050616/https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/bitstream/handle/10288/1561/2005wmmsocguide-low.pdf;jsessionid=B7A04C5B8B410F61113AF0FDDFCF4012?sequence=24 |date=July 20, 2021}} Retrieved July 20, 2021 The former head coach of the Tribe men's soccer team from 1971 to 2003, Al Albert, describes Jon as "athletic and feisty and quick" and added that he "wasn't the most technical or clinical player, but he could make things happen."[https://www.espn.com/espn/story/_/id/13389524/before-daily-show-jon-stewart-played-soccer-william-mary Markazi, Arash. "Before The Daily Show, Jon Stewart played college soccer," ESPN.com, Thursday, August 6, 2015.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210720053742/https://www.espn.com/espn/story/_/id/13389524/before-daily-show-jon-stewart-played-soccer-william-mary |date=July 20, 2021}} Retrieved July 20, 2021 He graduated from William & Mary in 1984 with a Bachelor of Arts. Twenty years later, the college awarded him an honorary Master of Arts degree.{{Cite web |title=Honorary degree recipients |url=https://scrc-kb.libraries.wm.edu/honorary-degree-recipients |access-date=March 3, 2024 |website=William & Mary Libraries’ Special Collections Research Center|date=September 25, 2020 }}

After college, Stewart held numerous jobs: contingency planner for the New Jersey Department of Human Services, contract administrator for the City University of New York, puppeteer for children with disabilities, soccer coach at Gloucester High School in Virginia, caterer, busboy, shelf stocker at Woolworth's, bartender at the Franklin Corner Tavern (a blue-collar bar in Lawrence), and bartender at the City Gardens nightclub in Trenton, New Jersey.{{Cite news |last=Gerston |first=Jill |date=March 13, 1994 |title=MTV Has a Hit With Words By Jon Stewart |work=The New York Times |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9804EFDC163DF930A25750C0A962958260 |access-date=March 9, 2008 |archive-date=March 4, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220304101118/https://www.nytimes.com/1994/03/13/arts/television-mtv-has-a-hit-with-words-by-jon-stewart.html |url-status=live}} He has said that working at City Gardens was a pivotal moment for him: "Finding this place City Gardens was like, 'Oh, maybe I'm not a giant weirdo. Maybe there are other people who have a similar sense of yearning for something other than what they have now.' I think it inspired a lot of people, man. It was a very creative environment. It was a place of great possibility."{{Cite web |last=Wilson |first=Chris |date=February 19, 2014 |title=Jon Stewart on Bartending at a Famous Punk Club |url=https://www.vulture.com/2014/02/jon-stewart-on-bartending-at-a-famous-punk-club.html |access-date=March 13, 2015 |website=Vulture.com |archive-date=March 16, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150316031038/http://www.vulture.com/2014/02/jon-stewart-on-bartending-at-a-famous-punk-club.html |url-status=live}}

With a reputation for being a funny man in school, Stewart returned to New York City in 1986 to try his hand at the comedy club circuit, but could not muster the courage to get on stage until the following year.{{Cite news |last=McLellan |first=Dennis |date=May 27, 1993 |title=He Has Faith in His Jokes |work=Los Angeles Times |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-05-27-ol-40130-story.html |access-date=June 3, 2008 |archive-date=March 8, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140308071451/http://articles.latimes.com/1993-05-27/news/ol-40130_1_jon-stewart |url-status=live}} He made his stand-up debut at The Bitter End, where one of his comedic idols, Woody Allen, also began.{{Cite magazine |last=Speidel |first=Maria |date=April 4, 1994 |title=Prince of Cool Air |url=https://people.com/archive/prince-of-cool-air-vol-41-no-12/ |url-status=dead |magazine=People |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140304171657/http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20107783,00.html |archive-date=March 4, 2014 |access-date=February 12, 2019}} He began using the stage name Jon Stewart by dropping his last name and changing the spelling of his middle name, Stuart, to Stewart. He often jokes that it was because people had trouble pronouncing Leibowitz, or it "sounded too Hollywood" (a reference to Lenny Bruce's joke on the same theme).{{cite web |last1=Davies |first1=Dave |title=Jon Stewart, Faking it and Making it: NPR |url=https://www.npr.org/2015/07/31/427733076/jon-stewart-faking-it-and-making-it |website=National Public Radio |access-date=April 27, 2024}} He has implied that the name change was due to a strained relationship with his father, with whom Stewart no longer had any contact.{{Cite news |last=Harris |first=Paul |date=February 26, 2006 |title=The Oscar for best satirist goes to ... |work=The Observer |location=London |url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2006/feb/26/broadcasting.oscars2006 |access-date=October 21, 2008 |archive-date=January 27, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140127040944/http://www.theguardian.com/media/2006/feb/26/broadcasting.oscars2006 |url-status=live}}

Stewart became a regular at the Comedy Cellar, where he was the last performer every night. For two years, he performed at 2 a.m. while developing his comedy style.{{Cite episode |title=Jon Stewart |episode-link=Sit Down Comedy with David Steinberg |series=Sit Down Comedy with David Steinberg |series-link=Sit Down Comedy with David Steinberg |network=TV Land |season=2 |number=4 |airdate=March 14, 2007}} In 1989, he landed his first television job as a writer for Caroline's Comedy Hour. In 1990, he began co-hosting Comedy Central's Short Attention Span Theater with Patty Rosborough.{{Cite news |last=Weiner |first=Jonah |date=June 21, 2015 |title=Comedy Central in the Post-TV Era |work=The New York Times |url=https://mobile.nytimes.com/slideshow/100000003747353/2015/06/21/magazine/comedy-central-in-the-post-tv-era/s/21mag-comedycentral-ss-slide-KWZZ.html |url-status=dead |access-date=November 6, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171107030309/https://mobile.nytimes.com/slideshow/100000003747353/2015/06/21/magazine/comedy-central-in-the-post-tv-era/s/21mag-comedycentral-ss-slide-KWZZ.html |archive-date=November 7, 2017}} In 1992, he hosted the short-lived You Wrote It, You Watch It on MTV, which invited viewers to send in their stories to be acted out by the comedy troupe, The State.{{Cite news |last=Gerston |first=Jill |date=March 13, 1994 |title=TELEVISION; MTV Has a Hit With Words By Jon Stewart |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/03/13/arts/television-mtv-has-a-hit-with-words-by-jon-stewart.html |access-date=November 6, 2017 |archive-date=July 9, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170709082028/http://www.nytimes.com/1994/03/13/arts/television-mtv-has-a-hit-with-words-by-jon-stewart.html |url-status=live}}

Stewart said that his career did not take off until his March 6, 1992, appearance on NBC's Late Night with David Letterman.Archived at [https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/wxUBJYzJrYg Ghostarchive]{{cbignore}} and the [https://web.archive.org/web/20200428123320/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxUBJYzJrYg&gl=US&hl=en Wayback Machine]{{cbignore}}: {{Cite web |title=Jon Stewart on Letterman, March 6, 1992 |website = YouTube| date=April 4, 2017 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxUBJYzJrYg |access-date=January 13, 2020 |language=en}}{{cbignore}} He was considered to take over the show when Letterman left it, but it was given to relatively unknown Conan O'Brien.{{cite web |last1=Brownfield |first1=Paul |title=From the Archives: Our take on Jon Stewart in 1998: 'He's practically made a career out of almost hosting other people's talk shows' |url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/tv/showtracker/la-et-st-jon-stewart-the-daily-show-december-25-1998-20150804-story.html |website=Los Angeles Times |date=December 25, 1998 |access-date=April 27, 2024 |quote="Stewart was in the running for the "Late Night" spot on NBC that went to Conan O'Brien"}} He co-hosted MTV Spring Break '93 Blind Date from Daytona Beach with Melissa Rivers.Archived at [https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/-TVbZwRmrwQ Ghostarchive]{{cbignore}} and the [https://web.archive.org/web/20200122051541/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TVbZwRmrwQ Wayback Machine]{{cbignore}}: {{Cite web |title=93 MTV Spring Break Special Beauty and the Beach Contest + Totally Pauly ft. RuPaul (w/ commercials) | date=October 31, 2019 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TVbZwRmrwQ |via=www.youtube.com}}{{cbignore}}

Later in 1993, Stewart developed The Jon Stewart Show, a talk show on MTV, which was later dropped by the network and was syndicated for its last two years. The Jon Stewart Show was the first talk show on that network and was an instant hit, becoming the second-highest rated MTV show, behind Beavis and Butt-Head.{{Cite web |last=Kaplan |first=Michael |date=February 19, 1994 |title=New York's Mr. Schmooze |url=http://www.geocities.com/jonstewartshow/jontvguide.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20240524163111/https://www.webcitation.org/5knyGfQyf?url=http://www.geocities.com/jonstewartshow/jontvguide.htm |archive-date=May 24, 2024 |access-date=June 21, 2007 |website=TV Guide}} In 1994, Paramount canceled The Arsenio Hall Show and, with new corporate sibling MTV (through MTV parent Viacom's acquisition of the studio), launched an hour-long syndicated late-night version of The Jon Stewart Show. Many local affiliates had moved Hall's show to 2 a.m. during its decline and Stewart's show inherited such early morning time slots in many cities. Ratings were dismal and the show was canceled in June 1995.{{Cite magazine |last=de Moraes |first=Lisa |date=August 19, 2016 |title=[Watch] Jon Stewart To Larry Wilmore: 'What Did You Do, Piss Off Peter Thiel?' |url=https://deadline.com/2016/08/jon-stewart-visits-larry-wilmore-final-nightly-show-peter-thiel-1201805694/ |magazine=Deadline |access-date=August 19, 2018 |archive-date=August 20, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180820074605/https://deadline.com/2016/08/jon-stewart-visits-larry-wilmore-final-nightly-show-peter-thiel-1201805694/ |url-status=live}}

Among the fans of the show was David Letterman, who was the final guest of The Jon Stewart Show. Letterman signed Stewart with his production company, Worldwide Pants.{{Cite web |date=June 6, 1996 |title=Comic Stewart Set to Head CBS Talker |url=http://jon.happyjoyfun.net/tran/1990/96_0696plaindealer.html |access-date=June 3, 2008 |website=The Plain Dealer |archive-date=December 3, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081203172045/http://jon.happyjoyfun.net/tran/1990/96_0696plaindealer.html |url-status=live}} Stewart then became a frequent guest host for Tom Snyder on The Late Late Show with Tom Snyder, which was produced by Letterman and aired after the Late Show on CBS. This led to much speculation that Stewart would soon replace Snyder permanently,{{Cite news |last=Johnson |first=Peter |date=October 1, 1996 |title=Stewart to Sub – Not Take Over – for Snyder |work=USA Today |url=http://jon.happyjoyfun.net/tran/1990/96_1001usatoday.html |access-date=June 3, 2008 |archive-date=March 4, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220304101116/http://jon.happyjoyfun.net/tran/1990/96_1001usatoday.html |url-status=live}} but instead, Stewart was offered the time slot after Snyder's, which he turned down.{{Cite news |last=Adaliang |first=Josef |date=November 25, 1997 |title=What's the Deal With Stewart? |work=New York Post |url=http://jon.happyjoyfun.net/tran/1990/97_1125nypost.html |access-date=June 3, 2008 |archive-date=December 3, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081203181259/http://jon.happyjoyfun.net/tran/1990/97_1125nypost.html |url-status=live}}

Stewart's first film role was a bit part in the box-office bomb, Mixed Nuts. He landed a minor part in The First Wives Club, but his scene was deleted.{{cite news |url=http://jon.happyjoyfun.net/tran/1990/96_0827usatoday.html |title=Out of the Club |newspaper=USA Today |author1=Vigoda, Arlene |first2=Susan |last2=Wloszczyna |date=August 27, 1996 |access-date=June 3, 2008 |archive-date=December 3, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081203173312/http://jon.happyjoyfun.net/tran/1990/96_0827usatoday.html |url-status=live}} In 1995, Stewart signed a three-year deal with Miramax.{{cite magazine |url=https://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,299594,00.html |magazine=Entertainment Weekly |title=Monitor |last1=Davidson |first1=Casey |last2=Shaw |first2=Jessica |date=November 17, 1995 |access-date=March 3, 2007 |archive-date=May 16, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070516103723/http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,299594,00.html |url-status=dead}} Stewart played romantic leads in the films, Playing by Heart and Wishful Thinking. He had a supporting role in the romantic comedy, Since You've Been Gone and in the horror film, The Faculty. Other films were planned for Stewart to write and star in, but they never were produced. Stewart maintained a relationship with Miramax founders Harvey and Bob Weinstein and appeared in films they produced including, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, Doogal, and the documentary, Wordplay.

In 1996, Stewart hosted a short-lived talk show entitled, Where's Elvis This Week?, which was a half-hour, weekly comedy television program. It aired on Sunday nights in the United Kingdom on BBC Two. It was filmed at the CBS Broadcast Center in New York City and featured a set of panelists, two from the UK and two from the United States, who discussed news items and cultural issues. The show premiered in the UK on October 6, 1996; five episodes aired in total. Notable panelists included Dave Chappelle, Eddie Izzard, Phill Jupitus, Nora Ephron, Craig Kilborn, Christopher Hitchens, Armando Iannucci, Norm Macdonald, and Helen Gurley Brown. In 1997, Stewart was chosen as the host and interviewer for George Carlin's tenth HBO special, George Carlin: 40 Years of Comedy.{{Cite news |last=Horowitz |first=Alana |date=April 7, 2013 |title=Jon Stewart Interview With George Carlin From 1997 Is Amazing (VIDEO) |work=The Huffington Post |url=http://www.huffpost.com/us/entry/3032418 |access-date=September 4, 2016 |archive-date=March 4, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220304101201/https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jon-stewart-george-carlin-interview_n_3032418 |url-status=live}} Stewart had a recurring role in The Larry Sanders Show, playing himself as an occasional substitute and possible successor to late-night talk show host Larry Sanders (played by Garry Shandling). Stewart also headlined the 1997 White House Correspondents' dinner.

In 1998, Stewart hosted the television special, Elmopalooza, celebrating 30 years of Sesame Street. He has guest-starred on other sitcoms including The Nanny, Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist, Spin City, and NewsRadio. The same year Stewart released his first book, Naked Pictures of Famous People (1998), a collection of humorous short stories and essays. The book reached The New York Times Best Seller List.{{cite book |title=Naked Pictures of Famous People |date=September 22, 1999 |isbn=0688171621 |last1=Stewart |first1=Jon |publisher=Harper Collins |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/nakedpicturesoff00stew}} In the mid-1990s, Stewart launched his own production company, Busboy Productions, naming the company in reference to his previous job as a busboy. Stewart signed a deal with Miramax to develop projects through his company, but none of his ideas have been produced. After Stewart's success as host and producer of The Daily Show, he revived Busboy Productions with Daily Show producers Ben Karlin and Rich Korson. In 2002, Busboy planned to produce a sitcom for NBC starring Stephen Colbert, but the show did not come to fruition.{{cite news |title=Jon Stewart: TV Mogul |publisher=E! Online |date=February 15, 2005}}{{Full citation needed|date=May 2023}}

Later that year, when Craig Kilborn left the show to replace Tom Snyder on The Late Late Show, Stewart began hosting The Daily Show on Comedy Central. The Daily Show blends humor with the day's top news stories, usually in politics, while simultaneously poking fun at politicians, newsmakers, and the news media. In an interview on The O'Reilly Factor, Stewart denied the show has any intentional political agenda, saying the goal was "schnicks and giggles" and that "[t]he same weakness that drove me into comedy also informs my show", meaning that he was uncomfortable talking without hearing the audience laugh.Archived at [https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/H5pK7sK0i4A Ghostarchive]{{cbignore}} and the [https://web.archive.org/web/20070421001411/http://youtube.com:80/watch?v=H5pK7sK0i4A Wayback Machine]{{cbignore}}: {{Cite web |title=Jon Stewart on The O'Reilly Factor | date=February 7, 2007 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5pK7sK0i4A |access-date=April 23, 2008 |publisher=YouTube}}{{cbignore}} In his first Daily Show on-air appearance on January 11, 1999, Stewart told his guest that evening, Michael J. Fox, that he felt as if "this is my bar mitzvah".{{Cite news |last=Gillick |first=Jeremy |title=Meet Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz |newspaper=Moment Magazine |date=November 9, 2011 |url=https://www.momentmag.com/meet-jonathan-stuart-leibowitz-aka-jon-stewart/ |access-date=June 13, 2019 |archive-date=February 29, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200229063515/https://momentmag.com/meet-jonathan-stuart-leibowitz-aka-jon-stewart/ |url-status=live}} His style was described by one critic as, "Stewart does not offer us cynicism for its own sake, but as a playful way to offer the kinds of insights that are not permitted in more serious news formats that slavishly cling to official account of events."Bennett, Lance W. "Relief in Hard Times: A Defense of Jon Stewart's Comedy in an Age of Cynicism." Critical Studies in Media Communication. 24.3 (2007): 278–283. Print.

He appeared in Half Baked as an "enhancement smoker" and in Big Daddy as Adam Sandler's roommate; he has joked on the Daily Show and in the documentary The Aristocrats that to get the role, he slept with Sandler. Stewart often makes fun of his appearances in the high-profile flop, Death to Smoochy,{{cite news |url=https://www.usatoday.com/life/people/2006-02-19-jon-stewart_x.htm |title=Jon Stewart looks Oscar in the eye |newspaper=USA Today |last=Levin |first=Gary |date=February 19, 2006 |access-date=June 4, 2008 |archive-date=March 4, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220304101119/https://usatoday30.usatoday.com/life/people/2006-02-19-jon-stewart_x.htm |url-status=live}} in which he played a treacherous television executive; and the animated film Doogal,{{cite news |url=http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0602/27/lkl.01.html |title=CNN Larry King Live: Interview With Jon Stewart |work=Larry King Live |publisher=CNN |date=February 27, 2006 |access-date=June 4, 2008 |archive-date=May 12, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080512153241/http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0602/27/lkl.01.html |url-status=live}} where he voiced the villain Zeebad. In 2007, Stewart made a cameo appearance as himself in Evan Almighty, which starred former Daily Show correspondent Steve Carell. In the movie, Stewart was seen on a television screen in a fictional Daily Show episode poking fun at Carell's character for building an ark.

Until Trevor Noah permanently took over the show in 2015, Stewart hosted almost all airings of the program, except for a few occasions when correspondents such as Stephen Colbert, Rob Corddry, Jason Jones, and Steve Carell subbed for him, and during John Oliver's stint as host during the summer of 2013. Stewart won twenty Primetime Emmy Awards for The Daily Show as either a writer or producer, and two for producing The Colbert Report (2013–14), earning a total of twenty-two Primetime Emmy Awards, the most wins for a male individual.{{Cite news |date=November 24, 2015 |title=Jon Stewart Comedic Genres |work=Salon |url=http://www.salon.com/2015/11/24/trevor_noahs_just_not_funny_the_daily_show_is_a_trainwreck_i_know_because_i_watch_for_a_living/ |access-date=January 17, 2015 |archive-date=November 24, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151124152320/http://www.salon.com/2015/11/24/trevor_noahs_just_not_funny_the_daily_show_is_a_trainwreck_i_know_because_i_watch_for_a_living/ |url-status=live}} In 2005, Stewart and The Daily Show received the Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album for the audiobook edition of America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction. In 2000 and 2004, the show won two Peabody Awards for its coverage of the US presidential elections in those years, called "Indecision 2000" and "Indecision 2004", respectively.[http://www.peabodyawards.com/award-profile/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-indecision-2000 60th Annual Peabody Awards] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141018164320/http://www.peabodyawards.com/award-profile/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-indecision-2000 |date=October 18, 2014}}, May 2001.[http://www.peabodyawards.com/award-profile/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-indecision-2004 64th Annual Peabody Awards] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140928051136/http://www.peabodyawards.com/award-profile/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-indecision-2004 |date=September 28, 2014}}, May 2005.

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The show of September 20, 2001, the first show after the attacks of September 11, 2001, began with no introduction.{{cite web |date=September 11, 2001 |title=September 11, 2001 |publisher=Comedy Central |url=http://thedailyshow.cc.com/videos/1q93jy/september-11--2001 |access-date=September 1, 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150901110549/http://thedailyshow.cc.com/videos/1q93jy/september-11--2001 |archive-date=September 1, 2015}} Before this, the introduction included footage of a fly-in toward the World Trade Center and New York City. The first nine minutes of the show included a tearful Stewart discussing his personal view on the event. His remarks ended as follows:{{blockquote |The view ... from my apartment ... was the World Trade Center ... and now it's gone, and they attacked it. This symbol of American ingenuity, and strength, and labor, and imagination and commerce, and it is gone. But you know what the view is now? The Statue of Liberty. The view from the South of Manhattan is now the Statue of Liberty. You can't beat that.}}

In mid-2002, amid rumors that David Letterman was going to switch from CBS to ABC when his contract ran out, Stewart was rumored as Letterman's replacement on CBS.{{cite magazine |last=Hiatt |first=Brian |date=March 11, 2002 |title=David Letterman will stay at CBS |magazine=Entertainment Weekly |url=https://ew.com/article/2002/03/12/david-letterman-will-stay-cbs/ |access-date=March 29, 2008 |archive-date=October 10, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081010165558/http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,216668,00.html |url-status=live}} Ultimately, Letterman renewed his contract with CBS.

In late 2002, ABC offered Stewart his own talk show to air right after Nightline. Stewart's contract with The Daily Show was near expiring, and he expressed strong interest. ABC, however, decided to give another Comedy Central figure, Jimmy Kimmel, the post-Nightline slot.{{cite web |last=Carter |first=Bill |date=November 3, 2002 |title=In the Land of the Insomniac, the Narcoleptic Wants to Be King |work=The New York Times |url=http://jon.happyjoyfun.net/tran/2002/02_1103nytimes.html |access-date=December 10, 2006 |archive-date=September 28, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928002150/http://jon.happyjoyfun.net/tran/2002/02_1103nytimes.html |url-status=live}} In 2004, Stewart and The Daily Show writing staff released, America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction, a mock high-school history textbook offering insights into the unique American system of government, dissecting its institutions, explaining its history and processes, and satirizing such popular American political precepts as "one man, one vote", "government by the people", and "every vote counts". The book sold millions of copies upon its 2004 release and ended the year as a top-fifteen best seller. He also delivered the commencement address for the class of 2004 at his alma mater, the College of William & Mary. In 2005, Stewart provided the voice of President James A. Garfield for the audiobook version of Sarah Vowell's Assassination Vacation.{{cite book |url=http://books.simonandschuster.com/Assassination-Vacation/Sarah-Vowell/9780743260046 |title=Simon & Schuster's Assassination Vacation Audio Book Promo page |date=February 6, 2006 |isbn=9780743260046 |access-date=December 20, 2011 |last1=Vowell |first1=Sarah |publisher=Simon & Schuster |archive-date=January 4, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120104180055/http://books.simonandschuster.com/Assassination-Vacation/Sarah-Vowell/9780743260046 |url-status=live}}

In 2005, Comedy Central reached an agreement with Busboy in which Comedy Central would provide financial backing for the production company. Comedy Central has a first-look agreement on all projects, after which Busboy is free to shop them to other networks.{{cite magazine |url=http://www.allbusiness.com/services/business-services-miscellaneous-business/4762101-1.html |title=Comedy Inks Deal with Stewart's Busboy |last=Larson |first=Megan |magazine=Adweek |date=February 18, 2005 |access-date=October 8, 2008 |archive-date=January 8, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090108103811/http://www.allbusiness.com/services/business-services-miscellaneous-business/4762101-1.html |url-status=live}}{{cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-feb-16-et-stewart16-story.html |title=Jon Stewart, Comedy Central Sign Deal |last=Boucher |first=Geoff |newspaper=The Los Angeles Times |date=February 18, 2005 |access-date=October 8, 2008 |archive-date=May 11, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110511201512/http://articles.latimes.com/2005/feb/16/entertainment/et-stewart16 |url-status=live}} The deal spawned the Daily Show spin-off The Colbert Report and its replacement, The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore. Other projects include the sitcom pilot Three Strikes, the documentary Sportsfan, the series Important Things with Demetri Martin, and the film The Donor.{{cite web |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/news/e3iff0ec139962d42d4152b670707cce783 |title=Stewart stamp on 'Martin' |website=Hollywood Reporter |date=October 3, 2007 |access-date=February 16, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080516180516/http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/news/e3iff0ec139962d42d4152b670707cce783 |archive-date=May 16, 2008}} In 2007, Stewart voiced Mort Sinclaire, former TV comedy writer and communist, on Stephen Colbert's audiobook version of I Am America (And So Can You!).{{cite news | last=Solomon | first=Deborah | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/25/magazine/25questions.html | title=Funny About the News | work=The New York Times Magazine | date=September 25, 2005 | access-date=January 5, 2008 | archive-date=October 26, 2011 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111026021336/http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/25/magazine/25questions.html | url-status=live}}

On April 4, 2006, Stewart confronted US Senator John McCain (R-AZ) on The Daily Show about his decision to appear at Liberty University, an institution founded by Jerry Falwell whom McCain previously had denounced as one of the "agents of intolerance". In the interchange, Stewart asked McCain, "You're not freaking out on us? Are you freaking out on us, because if you're freaking out ... and you're going into the crazy base world—are you going into crazy base world?" McCain replied, "Just– just– just a little" and "I'm afraid so." The clip was played on CNN,{{cite news |last1=Crowley |first1=Candy |author1-link=Candy Crowley |last2=Blitzer |first2=Wolf |author2-link=Wolf Blitzer |date=May 15, 2006 |title=Transcripts: The Situation Room: President to Address the Nation on Immigration ... [search for 'intolerance' and 'Stewart' respectively] |work=The Situation Room |publisher=CNN |url=http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0605/15/sitroom.01.html |access-date=July 26, 2006 |archive-date=May 25, 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060525060047/http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0605/15/sitroom.01.html |url-status=live}}{{cite web |title=John McCain on The Daily Show |publisher=Comedy Central |url=http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=115528&title=john-mccain |access-date=April 4, 2006 |archive-date=March 7, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080307145246/http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=115528&title=john-mccain |url-status=dead}} was noted and discussed in more detail in the blogosphere{{cite web |last=Madison |first=Lincoln |date=April 5, 2006 |title=John McCain on The Daily Show |work=The Third Path |publisher=Blogspot |url=http://lincmad.blogspot.com/2006/04/john-mccain-on-daily-show.html |access-date=July 26, 2006 |archive-date=October 28, 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061028045655/http://lincmad.blogspot.com/2006/04/john-mccain-on-daily-show.html |url-status=live}} and was followed up on in the mainstream media.{{cite web |date=April 14, 2006 |title=Making Right Turn, McCain Embraces Falwell |publisher=ABC News |url=https://abcnews.go.com/WNT/Politics/story?id=1843506 |access-date=October 8, 2008 |archive-date=March 2, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090302014531/http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/Politics/story?id=1843506 |url-status=live}}

In 2007, The Daily Show was involved in former correspondent Stephen Colbert's announcement that he would run for president in 2008. In 2008, Stewart appeared on the news program Democracy Now!.{{cite web |date=September 1, 2008 |title=Jon Stewart of 'The Daily Show' Weighs in on Sarah Palin, Hurricane Gustav and the Media's Coverage of the Conventions |website=Democracy Now! |url=http://www.democracynow.org/2008/9/1/jon_stewart_of_the_daily_show |access-date=October 29, 2010 |archive-date=October 31, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101031130854/http://www.democracynow.org/2008/9/1/jon_stewart_of_the_daily_show |url-status=live}} A 2008 New York Times story questioned whether he was, in a phrase originally used to describe longtime network news anchor Walter Cronkite, "the most trusted man in America".{{cite news |last=Kakutani |first=Michiko |date=August 15, 2008 |title=Is Jon Stewart the Most Trusted Man in America? |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/17/arts/television/17kaku.html |access-date=January 9, 2011 |archive-date=May 13, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110513194104/https://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/17/arts/television/17kaku.html |url-status=live}}

On April 28, 2009, during a discussion on torture with Clifford May, Stewart stated that former President Harry S. Truman was a war criminal for his use of the atomic bomb on Japan during World War II.{{cite magazine |title=Jon Stewart's apology to Harry Truman |magazine=The Week |url=https://theweek.com/article/index/96152/Jon_Stewarts_apology_to_Harry_Truman |access-date=September 17, 2010 |archive-date=January 25, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100125065520/http://www.theweek.com/article/index/96152/Jon_Stewarts_apology_to_Harry_Truman |url-status=live}}{{cite news |date=May 3, 2009 |title=Dennis Perrin: Why Did Jon Stewart Apologize? |work=The Huffington Post |url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/dennis-perrin/why-did-jon-stewart-apolo_b_195147.html |access-date=September 17, 2010 |archive-date=May 12, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110512044954/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dennis-perrin/why-did-jon-stewart-apolo_b_195147.html |url-status=live}} He defended his view moments later: "Here's what I think of the atom bombs. I think if you dropped an atom bomb fifteen miles offshore and you said, 'The next one's coming and hitting you', then I would think it's okay. To drop it on a city, and kill a hundred thousand people? Yeah. I think that's criminal." On April 30, Stewart apologized on his program, and stated he did not believe Truman was a war criminal:{{cite web |date=April 30, 2009 |title=Harry Truman Was Not a War Criminal – Video Clip | Comedy Central |work=The Daily Show |url=http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-april-30-2009/harry-truman-was-not-a-war-criminal |access-date=August 24, 2014 |archive-date=April 29, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110429032250/http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-april-30-2009/harry-truman-was-not-a-war-criminal |url-status=live}} "I shouldn't have said that, and I did. So I say right now, no, I don't believe that to be the case. The atomic bomb, a very complicated decision in the context of a horrific war, and I walk that back because it was in my estimation a stupid thing to say."{{cite web |date=May 3, 2009 |title=History News Network |publisher=Hnn.us |url=http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/81745.html |access-date=September 17, 2010 |archive-date=August 13, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090813044719/http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/81745.html |url-status=live}}

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On September 16, 2010, Stewart and Stephen Colbert announced a rally for October 30, known as the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear. It took place on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., and attracted an estimated 215,000 participants.{{cite news |last=Montopoli |first=Brian |date=October 30, 2010 |title=Jon Stewart Rally Attracts Estimated 215,000 |work=CBS News |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jon-stewart-rally-attracts-estimated-215000/ |access-date=December 30, 2010 |archive-date=December 29, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101229234747/http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20021284-503544.html |url-status=live}} In December 2010, Stewart was credited by the White House, other media, and political news outlets for bringing awareness of the Republican filibuster on the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act to the public, leading to the ultimate passing of the bill that provides health benefits to first responders whose health has been adversely affected by their work at Ground Zero.{{cite news |last=Madison |first=Lucy |date=December 24, 2010 |title=White House Lauds Jon Stewart for Pushing Passage of 9/11 Health Bill |publisher=CBS News |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/white-house-lauds-jon-stewart-for-pushing-passage-of-9-11-health-bill/ |access-date=December 30, 2010 |archive-date=December 24, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101224095520/http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20026333-503544.html |url-status=live}}

In March 2010, Stewart announced that he had optioned rights to the story of journalist Maziar Bahari, who was imprisoned in Iran for 118 days.{{cite web |url=https://www.slashfilm.com/optioned-stories-jon-stewart-buys-a-journalists-tale-don-murphy-takes-cory-doctorows-latest-novel/ |title=Optioned Stories: Jon Stewart Buys a Journalist's Tale; Don Murphy Takes Cory Doctorow's Latest Novel |date=March 23, 2010 |access-date=June 8, 2011 |publisher=Slashfilm |archive-date=June 11, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110611022504/http://www.slashfilm.com/optioned-stories-jon-stewart-buys-a-journalists-tale-don-murphy-takes-cory-doctorows-latest-novel/ |url-status=live}} On June 6, 2011, episode of The Daily Show, Stewart again hosted Bahari, and in March 2013, he announced that he was leaving the show for 12 weeks to direct the film version of Bahari's 2011 book, Then They Came For Me. Stewart's screenplay adaptation is entitled, Rosewater.{{cite news |last=Barnes |first=Brooks |title=Jon Stewart to Direct Serious Film, Will Take Hiatus From 'Daily Show |url=http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/03/05/jon-stewart-to-direct-serious-film-will-take-hiatus-from-daily-show/?hp |access-date=March 5, 2013 |newspaper=The New York Times |date=March 5, 2013 |archive-date=March 8, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130308132836/http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/03/05/jon-stewart-to-direct-serious-film-will-take-hiatus-from-daily-show/?hp |url-status=live}}{{cite news |publisher=CNN |title=Stewart to take time off from 'Daily Show,' direct feature film |url=http://www.cnn.com/2013/03/05/showbiz/jon-stewart-daily-show-hiatus/index.html |date=March 5, 2013 |access-date=March 5, 2013 |archive-date=March 6, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130306103039/http://www.cnn.com/2013/03/05/showbiz/jon-stewart-daily-show-hiatus/index.html |url-status=live}} It premiered at the September 2014 Toronto International Film Festival, receiving "generally favorable" reviews,[http://www.macleans.ca/culture/movies/a-comedian-in-tehran/ Jon Stewart brings an Iranian-Canadian's story to TIFF] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140915003934/http://www.macleans.ca/culture/movies/a-comedian-in-tehran/ |date=September 15, 2014}}, Emma Teitel, Maclean's, September 13, 2014 and was released to general audiences on November 14, 2014.

File:Jon Stewart Earth book 2 Shankbone.jpg , in New York, September 27, 2010]] In 2010, Stewart and The Daily Show writing staff released a sequel to their first book entitled, Earth (The Book): A Visitor's Guide to the Human Race. The book is meant to serve as a Baedeker travel guide for an alien civilization that discovers Earth after humanity has died out, most likely by its own hands.{{cite magazine |url=https://ew.com/article/2010/09/08/earth-book/ |title=Earth (The Book) (2010) |last=Staskiewicz |first=Keith |date=September 8, 2010 |magazine=Entertainment Weekly |access-date=September 24, 2010 |archive-date=September 20, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100920045248/http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20419670,00.html |url-status=live}} In April 2010, Comedy Central renewed Stewart's contract to host The Daily Show into 2013.{{cite news |last=Stelter |first=Brian |date=April 23, 2010 |title=Jon Stewart's Punching Bag, Fox News |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/24/arts/television/24stewart.html |access-date=April 24, 2010 |archive-date=April 26, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100426023127/http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/24/arts/television/24stewart.html |url-status=live}}{{cite magazine |title=Who Makes How Much |magazine=New York magazine |url=https://nymag.com/guides/salary/14497/index1.html |access-date=April 23, 2008 |archive-date=April 4, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080404072837/http://nymag.com/guides/salary/14497/index1.html |url-status=live}} According to a Forbes list of celebrities in 2008, he was earning $14 million a year.{{cite magazine |date=June 11, 2008 |title=The Celebrity 100 |magazine=Forbes.com |url=https://www.forbes.com/lists/2008/53/celebrities08_Jon-Stewart_JZY4.html |access-date=July 22, 2008 |archive-date=July 7, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080707044757/http://www.forbes.com/lists/2008/53/celebrities08_Jon-Stewart_JZY4.html |url-status=live}} The New York Times opined that Stewart is "the modern-day equivalent of Edward R. Murrow"{{cite news |last1=Carter |first1=Bill |last2=Stelter |first2=Brian |date=December 27, 2010 |title=News Analysis; Jon Stewart's Advocacy Role in 9/11 Bill Passage |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/27/business/media/27stewart.html |access-date=December 30, 2010 |archive-date=December 30, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101230084233/http://www.nytimes.com//2010//12//27//business//media//27stewart.html |url-status=live}} and the UK national newspaper The Independent called him the "satirist-in-chief".{{cite news |last=Adams |first=Guy |date=December 30, 2010 |title=The serious side of Jon Stewart |work=The Independent |location=UK |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/news/the-serious-side-of-jon-stewart-2171794.html |access-date=December 30, 2010 |archive-date=December 31, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101231073133/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/news/the-serious-side-of-jon-stewart-2171794.html |url-status=live}} In an interview, Senator John McCain described Stewart as "a modern-day Will Rogers and Mark Twain".{{cite news |last=Samuelsohn |first=Darren |title=Jon Stewart's secret White House visits |work=Politico |url=http://www.politico.com/agenda/story/2015/07/jon-stewarts-secret-white-house-visits-000178 |access-date=August 3, 2015 |archive-date=July 30, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150730204758/http://www.politico.com/agenda/story/2015/07/jon-stewarts-secret-white-house-visits-000178 |url-status=live}}{{cite news |last=Braswell |first=Sean |title=The Original Jon Stewart |website=OZY |date=November 19, 2013 |url=http://www.ozy.com/flashback/the-original-jon-stewart/3773 |access-date=February 19, 2016 |archive-date=March 4, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304053935/http://www.ozy.com/flashback/the-original-jon-stewart/3773 |url-status=live}}

On the show of January 10, 2011, Stewart began with a monologue about the shootings in Tucson, Arizona.Snyder, Steven James [https://entertainment.time.com/2011/01/11/the-night-shift-jon-stewart-confronts-the-arizona-shootings-makes-a-passionate-appeal-for-sanity-and-hope/ "The Night Shift: Jon Stewart Confronts the Arizona Shootings, Makes a Passionate Appeal For Sanity and Hope"], TIME Magazine Online; retrieved February 18, 2011. He said he wished the "ramblings of crazy people didn't in any way resemble how we actually talk to each other on television".Linkins, Jason [https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/10/stewart-colbert-tucson_n_807164.html "Stewart, Colbert Draw Contrasts In Response To Tucson Shooting"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170216061344/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/10/stewart-colbert-tucson_n_807164.html |date=February 16, 2017}}, The Huffington Post; retrieved February 18, 2011. Before a commercial break, Stewart told viewers that the show would continue as usual the next night. After the commercial break, the show featured a rerun of a field piece done by Jason Jones two years earlier.{{cite web |last=Estes |first=Adam Clark |date=January 11, 2011 |title=Jon Stewart on shooting: No idea how to process this |work=Salon |url=http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2011/01/11/jon_stewart_arizona_shooting/ |access-date=January 15, 2011 |archive-date=November 2, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121102123950/http://www.salon.com/2011/01/11/jon_stewart_arizona_shooting/ |url-status=dead}}

In March 2012, Stewart interviewed Bruce Springsteen for Rolling Stone.{{cite magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/jon-stewart-interviews-bruce-springsteen-for-rolling-stone-20120307 |title=Jon Stewart Interviews Bruce Springsteen for Rolling Stone |magazine=Rolling Stone |date=March 7, 2012 |access-date=August 24, 2014 |archive-date=October 2, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141002111559/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/jon-stewart-interviews-bruce-springsteen-for-rolling-stone-20120307 |url-status=live}} Writer Wyatt Cenac said that Stewart cursed him out after Cenac acknowledged he was uncomfortable about a June 2011 Daily Show bit about Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain (reported in July 2015).{{cite web |last=Jung |first=E. Alex |date=July 23, 2015 |title=Jon Stewart Told Wyatt Cenac to 'F*ck Off' When He Was Challenged About Race |work=Vulture.com |url=https://www.vulture.com/2015/07/jon-stewart-told-wyatt-cenac-to-fck-off.html |access-date=April 17, 2020 |archive-date=July 9, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200709061056/https://www.vulture.com/2015/07/jon-stewart-told-wyatt-cenac-to-fck-off.html |url-status=live}}{{cite podcast |date=July 23, 2015 |title=Episode 622 – Wyatt Cenac |work=WTF with Marc Maron |url=http://www.wtfpod.com/podcast/episodes/episode_622_-_wyatt_cenac |access-date=July 24, 2015 |archive-date=July 24, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150724123447/http://www.wtfpod.com/podcast/episodes/episode_622_-_wyatt_cenac |url-status=live}}

In March 2013, it was announced that Stewart would be taking a 12-week hiatus from The Daily Show to direct the film Rosewater, which is based on the book Then They Came for Me by Maziar Bahari.{{cite news |last=O'Connell |first=Michael |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/jon-stewart-take-summer-break-426109 |title=Jon Stewart to Take Summer Break from 'Daily Show' to Direct a Movie |work=The Hollywood Reporter |date=March 5, 2013 |access-date=April 17, 2020 |archive-date=October 1, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201001202547/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/jon-stewart-take-summer-break-426109 |url-status=live}}{{cite web |url=http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-june-6-2013/summer-break |title=The Daily Show |date=June 6, 2013 |access-date=June 12, 2013 |archive-date=June 11, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130611062545/http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-june-6-2013/summer-break |url-status=live}} Beginning June 10, 2013, The Daily Show correspondent John Oliver assumed primary hosting duties during Stewart's break.{{cite web |url=http://www.thedailyshow.com/full-episodes/mon-june-10-2013-seth-rogen |title=The Daily Show |date=June 10, 2013 |access-date=June 18, 2013 |archive-date=June 16, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130616053637/http://www.thedailyshow.com/full-episodes/mon-june-10-2013-seth-rogen |url-status=live}} The TV Guide annual survey for 2013 star salaries showed that Stewart was the highest-paid late night host, making an estimated $25–30 million per year.{{cite magazine |title=TV's Highest Paid Stars: What They Earn |url=https://www.tvguide.com/News/TV-Highest-Paid-Stars-1069334.aspx |magazine=TV Guide |access-date=August 21, 2013 |archive-date=August 20, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130820124832/http://www.tvguide.com/news/tv-highest-paid-stars-1069334.aspx |url-status=live}} On July 14, 2014, Stewart interviewed Hillary Clinton about the Middle East. Clinton's condemnations of Hamas led Stewart to ask her: "But don't you think they would look at that though as, they've given a lot of different things a chance and these are the only guys to them that are giving any resistance to what their condition is?" For Gazans living in that situation, he said Hamas could be viewed as "freedom fighters".[http://www.tabletmag.com/scroll/179536/watch-hillary-clinton-vs-jon-stewart-on-gaza%20%20our%20freedom%20fighters Hillary Clinton vs Jon Stewart on Gaza], tabletmag.com; accessed September 23, 2015.{{cite web |url=https://www.mediaite.com/tv/jon-stewart-confronts-hillary-over-humanitarian-crisis-in-gaza/ |title=Jon Stewart Confronts Hillary over 'Humanitarian Crisis' in Gaza |date=July 16, 2014 |access-date=June 17, 2019 |archive-date=June 17, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190617051527/https://www.mediaite.com/tv/jon-stewart-confronts-hillary-over-humanitarian-crisis-in-gaza/ |url-status=live}}

During a taping of the show on February 10, 2015, Stewart announced he was leaving The Daily Show.{{cite web |url=https://www.avclub.com/article/jon-stewart-says-hes-leaving-daily-show-215070 |title=Jon Stewart says he's leaving The Daily Show |website=avclub.com |date=February 10, 2015 |access-date=March 13, 2015 |archive-date=February 11, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150211021610/http://www.avclub.com/article/jon-stewart-says-hes-leaving-daily-show-215070 |url-status=live}} Comedy Central president Michele Ganeless confirmed Stewart's retirement with a statement.{{cite web |title=Jon Stewart to step down as host of The Daily Show |website=satxdailynews.com |url=http://www.satxdailynews.com/entertainment/jon-stewart-to-step-down-as-host-of-the-daily-show |access-date=September 23, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150211033512/http://www.satxdailynews.com/entertainment/jon-stewart-to-step-down-as-host-of-the-daily-show/ |archive-date=February 11, 2015}} Later, it was announced that South African comedian Trevor Noah would succeed Stewart as the host of the show.{{cite magazine |last=Grow |first=Kory |title=Jon Stewart Is Ready for 'Next Iteration' of The Daily Show |magazine=Rolling Stone |date=February 20, 2015 |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/tv/features/jon-stewart-is-ready-for-next-iteration-of-the-daily-show-20150220 |access-date=September 2, 2017 |archive-date=October 7, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171007162036/http://www.rollingstone.com/tv/features/jon-stewart-is-ready-for-next-iteration-of-the-daily-show-20150220 |url-status=live}} On April 20, 2015, Stewart indicated that his final show would be on August 6, 2015.{{cite web |first=Josh |last=Feldman |date=April 20, 2015 |title=Jon Stewart announces when he's leaving The Daily Show |website=Mediaite |url=http://www.mediaite.com/tv/stewart-announces-when-hes-leaving-the-daily-show/ |access-date=April 20, 2015 |archive-date=April 23, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150423210749/http://www.mediaite.com/tv/stewart-announces-when-hes-leaving-the-daily-show/ |url-status=live}}

File:Barack Obama on the Daily Show July 21, 2015.jpg in 2015]]

On July 28, 2015, Darren Samuelsohn of Politico reported that twice, Stewart had been at the White House for previously unreported meetings with President Obama: once in October 2011 and once in February 2014. Michael D. Shear of The New York Times also picked up on the story.{{cite news |last=Shear |first=Michael D. |date=July 28, 2015 |title=Jon Stewart Met Privately With Obama at White House |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/29/us/politics/jon-stewart-secretly-met-with-obama-at-white-house.html |access-date=August 3, 2015 |archive-date=July 31, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150731021526/http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/29/us/politics/jon-stewart-secretly-met-with-obama-at-white-house.html |url-status=live}} Stewart responded on his show by pointing out that the meetings were listed in the president's publicly available visitor log and that he has been asked to meet privately by many prominent individuals, including Roger Ailes of Fox News. He said Obama encouraged him not to make young Americans cynical about their government and Stewart said that his reply was that he was "skeptically idealistic".{{cite news |last=Bauder |first=David |date=July 30, 2015 |title=Jon Stewart: Meeting with Obama wasn't a secret |website=Yahoo! |url=https://news.yahoo.com/jon-stewart-meeting-obama-wasnt-secret-151920876.html |access-date=August 3, 2015 |archive-date=August 1, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150801231922/http://news.yahoo.com/jon-stewart-meeting-obama-wasnt-secret-151920876.html |url-status=live}}

On June 19, 2015, in the wake of the Charleston Church Shooting, Stewart decided not to write jokes for the opening monologue. Elaborating on his decision, Stewart stated, "I honestly have nothing other than just sadness". Stewart spoke about the racial disparity and injustices in America, saying "The Confederate flag flies over South Carolina ... and the roads are named for Confederate generals" describing it as "racial wallpaper".{{cite magazine |title=Jon Stewart tells no jokes about Charleston church shooting |magazine=Time Magazine |url=https://time.com/3927986/charleston-jon-stewart/ |access-date=May 11, 2020 |archive-date=July 17, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200717233131/https://time.com/3927986/charleston-jon-stewart/ |url-status=live}} Instead he designated a large portion of the show to his guest that night Malala Yousafzai, calling her "an incredible inspiration," and that "to be quite honest with you, I don't think there's anyone else in the world I would rather talk to tonight than Malala: So that's what we're going to do. And sorry about no jokes."{{cite web |title=Watch Malala get real with Jon Stewart about activism and girls' education |website=TakePart |url=http://www.takepart.com/article/2015/06/19/watch-malala-get-real-jon-stewart-about-activism-and-girls-education |access-date=May 11, 2020 |archive-date=September 21, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200921054830/http://www.takepart.com/article/2015/06/19/watch-malala-get-real-jon-stewart-about-activism-and-girls-education/ |url-status=live}}

On August 5, 2015, Stewart's friend of 30 years, comedian Louis C.K., was selected to be the last guest before the final Daily Show episode with Stewart helming the show. C.K. joked that he was there "representing comedy to say good job".{{cite AV media |title=Exclusive – Louis C.K. extended interview |series=The Daily Show with Jon Stewart |medium=video clip |website=Comedy Central |url=http://www.cc.com/video-clips/s3onms/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-exclusive---louis-c-k--extended-interview|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151013055420/http://www.cc.com/video-clips/s3onms/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-exclusive---louis-c-k--extended-interview|url-status=dead|archive-date=October 13, 2015}}

The hour-long-plus final Daily Show on August 6 featured reunions with former correspondents Stephen Colbert, Steve Carell, John Oliver, Samantha Bee, Hasan Minhaj, Ed Helms, Kristen Schaal, Larry Wilmore, Jessica Williams, Aasif Mandvi, Lewis Black, John Hodgman, Rob Corddry, Olivia Munn, Josh Gad, Michael Che, and Mo Rocca and cameo video clips from people Stewart had targeted over the years, including Hillary Clinton, John McCain, Lindsey Graham, Chris Christie, John Kerry, Chuck Schumer, Bill O'Reilly, Wolf Blitzer, Joe Scarborough, and Mika Brzezinski.{{cite magazine |title=Jon Stewart's farewell: Daily Show host spotlights staff, not self |year=2015 |series=TV News |magazine=Variety |url=https://variety.com/2015/tv/news/jon-stewart-daily-show-finale-comedy-central-1201558709/ |access-date=May 11, 2020 |archive-date=September 24, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200924092640/https://variety.com/2015/tv/news/jon-stewart-daily-show-finale-comedy-central-1201558709/ |url-status=live}} During the final episode, there was a pre-taped behind-the-scenes look at the show spoofing the long-take Copacabana scene from Goodfellas, featuring a brief appearance by Martin Scorsese.{{cite magazine |title=Jon Stewart's Goodfellas spoof a highlight of final Daily Show |date=August 7, 2015 |magazine=Entertainment Weekly |url=https://ew.com/article/2015/08/07/jon-stewart-goodfellas-montage-daily-show/ |access-date=May 11, 2020 |archive-date=September 18, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200918150353/https://ew.com/article/2015/08/07/jon-stewart-goodfellas-montage-daily-show/ |url-status=live}} It concluded with a performance by Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band.{{cite news |title=Laughs and some tears as Jon Stewart hosts last Daily Show |last=Helsel |first=Phil |date=August 7, 2015 |publisher=NBC News |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/tv/laughs-some-tears-jon-stewart-hosts-last-daily-show-n405716 |url-status=live |access-date=August 7, 2015 |archive-date=August 7, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150807170602/http://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/tv/laughs-some-tears-jon-stewart-hosts-last-daily-show-n405716}}

He also guest starred in the animated series American Dad!, and The Simpsons as well as the children's television series Between the Lions, Sesame Street, Jack's Big Music Show, and Gravity Falls. After Stewart's departure from The Daily Show, he was listed as an executive producer on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.{{cite news |url=https://money.cnn.com/2015/09/09/media/jon-stewart-producer-stephen-colbert |title=Jon Stewart is one of Stephen Colbert's 'Late Show' producers |last=Stelter |first=Brian |date=September 9, 2015 |work=CNN Money |access-date=September 23, 2015 |archive-date=September 23, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923190716/http://money.cnn.com/2015/09/09/media/jon-stewart-producer-stephen-colbert |url-status=live}}{{cite web | url=http://fortune.com/2016/04/13/cbs-late-show-colbert-licht/ | title=Stephen Colbert's 'Late Show' Taps New Exec Producer Amid Low Ratings | access-date=June 7, 2016 | last=Huddleston | first=Tom Jr. | archive-date=June 15, 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160615020615/http://fortune.com/2016/04/13/cbs-late-show-colbert-licht/ | url-status=live}} In addition, Stewart has presented occasional comedic monologues filled with political and media commentary.{{cite magazine |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/jon-stewart-urges-public-prevail-trumps-cruelty-late-show-1124088 |title=Jon Stewart Urges Public to 'Prevail' Against Trump's 'Cruelty' |last=Perez |first=Lexy |magazine=Hollywood Reporter |date=June 28, 2018 |access-date=August 19, 2018 |archive-date=June 29, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180629084934/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/jon-stewart-urges-public-prevail-trumps-cruelty-late-show-1124088 |url-status=live}}{{cite web |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/tv/jon-stewart-reunites-stephen-colbert-mocks-trump-s-executive-orders-n715306 |title=Jon Stewart Reunites With Stephen Colbert, Mocks Trump's Executive Orders |last=Ortiz |first=Erik |date=February 1, 2017 |website=NBC News |access-date=August 19, 2018 |archive-date=August 9, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180809043616/https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/tv/jon-stewart-reunites-stephen-colbert-mocks-trump-s-executive-orders-n715306 |url-status=live}}{{cite magazine |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/jon-stewart-returns-stephen-colberts-913557 |title=Jon Stewart Returns to Stephen Colbert's 'Late Show,' Bashes Fox News' Embrace of Donald Trump |last=Lewis |first=Hilary |magazine=Hollywood Reporter |date=July 22, 2016 |access-date=August 19, 2018 |archive-date=June 29, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180629074410/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/jon-stewart-returns-stephen-colberts-913557 |url-status=live}}{{cite magazine |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/jon-stewart-stephen-colberts-late-848000 |title=Jon Stewart on Stephen Colbert's 'Late Show': Donald Trump Impression (Video) |last=Lewis |first=Hilary |magazine=Hollywood Reporter |date=December 11, 2015 |access-date=August 19, 2018 |archive-date=June 29, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180629074357/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/jon-stewart-stephen-colberts-late-848000 |url-status=live}}

In November 2015, it was announced that Stewart signed a four-year deal with HBO that would include exclusive digital content for HBO NOW, HBO Go, and other platforms.{{cite web |title=Jon Stewart Inks Four-Year Deal With HBO to Create Digital Content |last=Ortiz |first=Erik |website=NBC News |date=November 3, 2015 |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/tv/jon-stewart-inks-four-year-deal-hbo-create-digital-content-n456636 |access-date=November 3, 2015 |archive-date=November 3, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151103230906/http://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/tv/jon-stewart-inks-four-year-deal-hbo-create-digital-content-n456636 |url-status=live}} HBO programming president Casey Bloys has said that "the idea is it will be an animated parody of a cable news network with an Onion-like portal."{{cite news|first1=Mikey |last1=O'Connell |first2=Lesley |last2=Goldberg |date=July 30, 2016|title=HBO's New Chief Talks Jon Stewart, 'Vinyl' Demise, Violence Problems and 'Thrones' End|work=The Hollywood Reporter|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/hbos-new-chief-talks-jon-915930|access-date=May 21, 2017|archive-date=May 25, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170525022428/http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/hbos-new-chief-talks-jon-915930|url-status=live}} The team began working with the cloud graphics company, OTOY, to build a system for creating content. Working on the project were Mike Brown, Steve Waltien, Chelsea Devantez, Lucy Steiner, Kate James, and Robby Slowik. The team tested material in Red Bank, New Jersey, at The Count Basie Theatre Performing Arts Academy.{{cite web |last=Marotta |first=Jenna |date=March 14, 2017 |title=The Staff Of Jon Stewart's Mysterious New HBO Show Is Testing Out Material in Suburban New Jersey |website=Decider |url=http://decider.com/2017/03/14/jon-stewart-hbo-writing-staff-free-comedy-red-bank-new-jersey/ |access-date=May 21, 2017 |archive-date=May 16, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170516174950/http://decider.com/2017/03/14/jon-stewart-hbo-writing-staff-free-comedy-red-bank-new-jersey/ |url-status=live}} The show's premiere was moved several times, from fall 2016,{{cite news |last=Holloway |first=Daniel |date=July 30, 2016 |title=Jon Stewart's HBO Show Will Be Animated Cable-News Parody |work=Variety |url=https://variety.com/2016/tv/news/jon-stewarts-hbo-animated-cable-news-parody-1201827142/ |access-date=May 21, 2017 |archive-date=May 19, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170519045246/http://variety.com/2016/tv/news/jon-stewarts-hbo-animated-cable-news-parody-1201827142/ |url-status=live}} to the first quarter of 2017,{{cite magazine |first=James |last=Hibberd |date=November 14, 2016 |title='Westworld' Renewed for Second Season, Likely Returning 2018 |magazine=Entertainment Weekly |url=https://ew.com/article/2016/11/14/westworld-season-2/ |access-date=May 21, 2017 |archive-date=May 9, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170509085907/http://ew.com/article/2016/11/14/westworld-season-2/ |url-status=live}} and then cancelled on May 23, 2017.{{cite magazine |first=Bryn |last=Sandburg |date=May 23, 2017 |title=Jon Stewart and HBO Scrap Animated Project |magazine=The Hollywood Reporter |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/hbo-drops-jon-stewarts-animated-project-1007081 |access-date=May 24, 2017 |archive-date=May 24, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170524060233/http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/hbo-drops-jon-stewarts-animated-project-1007081 |url-status=live}} The cancelation statement read: "HBO and Jon Stewart have decided not to proceed with a short-form digital animated project... We all thought the project had great potential but there were technical issues in terms of production and distribution that proved too difficult given the quick turnaround and topical nature of the material. We're excited to report that we have some future projects together which you will be hearing about in the near future".

File:DChapJStewRAH211018-22.jpg with Stewart performing at Royal Albert Hall in 2018]]

In July 2017, HBO announced Stewart would produce a stand-up comedy special for the network, his first stand-up special since 1996.{{cite news |last=Villarreal |first=Yvonne |title=Two Jon Stewart comedy specials are coming to HBO |newspaper=The Los Angeles Times |url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-et-entertainment-news-updates-july-two-jon-stewart-comedy-specials-are-1501109085-htmlstory.html |date=July 26, 2017 |access-date=August 19, 2018 |archive-date=August 7, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180807011403/http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-et-entertainment-news-updates-july-two-jon-stewart-comedy-specials-are-1501109085-htmlstory.html |url-status=live}} Ultimately, no special aired. In 2018, Stewart and Dave Chappelle joined forces for a duo comedy tour in the United States, and across the United Kingdom.{{cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/dave-chappelle-jon-stewart-plot-joint-stand-up-comedy-tour-630156/|title=Dave Chappelle, Jon Stewart Plot Joint Stand-Up Comedy Tour|first1=Ryan|last1=Reed|magazine=Rolling Stone|date=May 14, 2018|access-date=February 16, 2024|archive-date=March 20, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190320233224/https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/dave-chappelle-jon-stewart-plot-joint-stand-up-comedy-tour-630156/|url-status=live}} Stewart performed standup in the 13th Annual Standup for Heroes event alongside John Oliver and Hasan Minhaj.{{cite web|url= https://variety.com/2019/scene/news/bruce-springsteen-jon-stewart-stand-up-for-heroes-new-york-comedy-festival-1203329301/|title= Bruce Springsteen, Jon Stewart Return for 13th Annual Stand Up for Heroes|website= Variety|date= September 9, 2019|accessdate= February 16, 2024}}

On directing, Stewart noted on Employee of the Month that The Daily Show influenced his directing process more than his acting gigs did. He said, "It's about the collaboration. It's about understanding. Doing a show taught me this process of clarity of vision, but the flexibility of process. So know your intention, know where you're wanting to go with the scene with the way that you want it to go, the momentum shifts, the emphasis, where you want it to be."{{cite magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/tv/features/jon-stewart-is-ready-for-next-iteration-of-the-daily-show-20150220#ixzz3SxWwIEKR |title=Jon Stewart Is Ready for 'Next Iteration' of 'Daily Show' – Rolling Stone |magazine=Rolling Stone |date=February 20, 2015 |access-date=March 13, 2015 |archive-date=March 11, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150311025548/http://www.rollingstone.com/tv/features/jon-stewart-is-ready-for-next-iteration-of-the-daily-show-20150220#ixzz3SxWwIEKR |url-status=live}} He also expressed interest in directing more films.{{cite news |last1=Lewis |first1=Hilary |last2=Simmons |first2=Ted |title=Jon Stewart Reveals Hopes For 'Daily Show' Successor, Talks Future Plans |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/jon-stewart-reveals-hopes-daily-775586 |website=Hollywood Reporter |access-date=April 17, 2020 |archive-date=September 25, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200925202304/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/jon-stewart-reveals-hopes-daily-775586 |url-status=live}} Stewart directed the political satire Irresistible, released in June 2020,{{cite web |url=https://variety.com/2018/film/news/jon-stewart-new-directing-job-irresistible-1202967643/ |title=Jon Stewart Finds Next Directing Gig With Steve Carell as Top Choice to Star (EXCLUSIVE) |work=Variety |date=October 3, 2018 |access-date=May 22, 2019 |archive-date=May 15, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190515195934/https://variety.com/2018/film/news/jon-stewart-new-directing-job-irresistible-1202967643/amp/ |url-status=live}}{{cite web |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/jon-stewart-steve-carell-team-political-satire-irresistible-1149200 |title=Jon Stewart, Steve Carell Team for Political Satire 'Irresistible' |work=The Hollywood Reporter |date=October 3, 2018 |access-date=May 22, 2019 |archive-date=October 11, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181011104959/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/jon-stewart-steve-carell-team-political-satire-irresistible-1149200 |url-status=live}} which follows a demoralized Democratic strategist (played by Daily Show alumnus Steve Carell), who helps a retired veteran (Chris Cooper) run for mayor in a small, blue collar town in Wisconsin.{{cite web |url=https://deadline.com/2019/03/jon-stewart-steve-carell-rose-byrne-chris-cooper-irresistible-focus-features-brad-pitt-planb-1202578124/ |title=Chris Cooper Joins Steve Carell & Rose Byrne in Jon Stewart's Campaign Trail Comedy 'Irresistible' For Focus & Plan B |work=Deadline |date=March 19, 2019 |access-date=May 22, 2019 |archive-date=March 20, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190320122559/https://deadline.com/2019/03/jon-stewart-steve-carell-rose-byrne-chris-cooper-irresistible-focus-features-brad-pitt-planb-1202578124/ |url-status=live}}

After his contract with HBO ended, Stewart signed a multi-year show deal with Apple. On September 30, 2021, Stewart's new series, The Problem with Jon Stewart, premiered on Apple TV+. The series featured hour-long, single-subject episodes. In addition to hosting the show, Stewart served as executive producer through his company, Busboy Productions.{{cite web |last=Rose |first=Lacey |date=October 27, 2020 |title=Jon Stewart Returns With Current Affairs Series for Apple (Exclusive) |work=The Hollywood Reporter |url=https://comicbook.com/marvel/2018/05/21/black-panther-trevor-noah-cameo-voice |access-date=October 27, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180524003648/http://comicbook.com/marvel/2018/05/21/black-panther-trevor-noah-cameo-voice/ |archive-date=May 24, 2018 |url-status=live}} The show was canceled after two seasons, allegedly due to Apple executives disagreeing with coverage of China and artificial intelligence.{{Cite web |date=October 19, 2023 |title=Jon Stewart's Show on Apple Is Ending |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/19/business/media/jon-stewart-the-problem-ends.html |website=New York Times}} Apple's cancelation attracted criticism from the United States House Select Committee on Strategic Competition between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party.{{Cite news |last= |date=November 15, 2023 |title=Apple under fire over cancellation of Jon Stewart show amid China concerns |language=en-GB |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2023/nov/15/jon-stewart-apple-show-cancelled-china |access-date=November 16, 2023 |issn=0261-3077}}

In July 2022, a Politico writer named Juleanna Glover wrote an op-ed titled "If Tucker Runs in 2024, Here's Who the Democrats Need." In the op-ed, Glover called for Stewart to run for president in 2024. Stewart promptly responded to the viral article with a Tweet, stating "ummm... no thank you."{{ cite web |title=Jon Stewart Says 'No Thank You' After Viral Op-Ed Suggests He Run for President |last=Lambert |first=Harper |website=Yahoo News |date=July 9, 2022 |url=https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/jon-stewart-says-no-thank-234143169.html |access-date=July 11, 2022 |archive-date=July 10, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220710005636/https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/jon-stewart-says-no-thank-234143169.html |url-status=live}} In 2023 Stewart performed at the comedy festival, Netflix is a Joke in Los Angeles.{{cite web|url= https://about.netflix.com/en/news/netflix-is-a-joke-the-festival-day-three|title= "Live from Last Night" at Netflix Is a Joke: The Festival|website= Netflix|accessdate= February 16, 2024}}

In January 2024, it was confirmed that Stewart would return to The Daily Show as the weekly Monday guest host starting February 12, 2024.{{cite news|url=https://www.npr.org/2024/01/24/1226638659/jon-stewart-daily-show-guest-host|title=Jon Stewart will return to 'The Daily Show' as a weekly guest host|first=Eric|last=Deggans|publisher=NPR|date=January 24, 2024|accessdate=January 24, 2024}} It was also confirmed that Stewart and his manager James Dixon would serve as executive producers for all Daily Show episodes through 2025. In May 2024, it was announced that Stewart would additionally begin hosting The Weekly Show, an original podcast from Comedy Central.{{Cite web |last=Spangler |first=Todd |date=May 9, 2024 |title=Jon Stewart to Launch Weekly Podcast With Comedy Central |url=https://variety.com/2024/digital/news/jon-stewart-podcast-with-comedy-central-1235997310/ |access-date=June 28, 2024 |website=Variety |language=en-US}} Stewart and The Daily Show team won the Primetime Emmy Award for Best Talk Series, his 23rd Emmy.{{cite web |last1=Porter |first1=Rick |title=Emmys: 'The Daily Show' Wins Best Talk Series for Second Straight Year |website=The Hollywood Reporter |date=September 16, 2024 |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/2024-emmy-variety-talk-series-daily-show-wins-1236002687/ |access-date=3 November 2024}} In late October, Stewart extended his contract by one year to remain host until the end of 2025.{{cite web |last1=White |first1=Peter |title=Jon Stewart To Remain Host Of 'The Daily Show' Through 2025 |url=https://deadline.com/2024/10/jon-stewart-the-daily-show-host-2025-1236159809/ |website=Deadline |date=October 28, 2024 |access-date=3 November 2024}}

File:Jon Stewart tells jokes behind the president’s lectern as President Obama and the First Lady look on during the comedy show in celebration of the 75th anniversary of the USO and the 5th anniversary of Joining Forces (26240098743).jpg and Michelle Obama with Stewart celebrating the 75th anniversary of the USO in 2016]]

Stewart has hosted the Grammy Awards twice, in 2001 and in 2002,{{Cite news |url=https://www.grammy.com/grammys/news/jon-stewart-ll-cool-j-who-has-hosted-grammys |title=Who has hosted the GRAMMYs? |date=February 8, 2013 |work=GRAMMY.com |access-date=December 9, 2017 |language=en |archive-date=October 1, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201001162342/https://www.grammy.com/grammys/news/jon-stewart-ll-cool-j-who-has-hosted-grammys |url-status=live}} and the 78th Academy Awards, which were held March 5, 2006, at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood.{{cite news |title=Jon Stewart to Host Oscars |publisher=CBS |date=January 5, 2006 |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jon-stewart-to-host-oscars-05-01-2006/ |access-date=July 26, 2006 |archive-date=August 31, 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060831163127/http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/01/05/entertainment/main1180403.shtml |url-status=live}} Critical response to Stewart's performance was mixed. Roger Ebert compared him favorably to legendary Oscar host Johnny Carson.{{cite news |url=http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060305/OSCARS/60306001 |last=Ebert |first=Roger |author-link=Roger Ebert |title='Crash'-ing a joyous Oscar party |website=RogerEbert.com |date=March 5, 2006 |access-date=May 7, 2007 |archive-date=April 28, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070428114639/http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=%2F20060305%2FOSCARS%2F60306001 |url-status=live}} Other reviewers were less positive; Tom Shales of The Washington Post said that Stewart hosted with "smug humorlessness". James Poniewozik of TIME said that Stewart was a bad host, but a great "anti-host" in that he poked fun at parts of the broadcast that deserved it, which lent him a degree of authenticity with the non-Hollywood audience.{{cite magazine |last=Poniewozik |first=James |title=Jon Stewart vs. The Oscars |magazine=TIME |date=March 6, 2006 |url=http://www.time-blog.com/tuned_in/2006/03/jon_stewart_vs_the_oscars.html |access-date=July 26, 2006 |archive-date=February 29, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080229170652/http://time-blog.com/tuned_in/2006/03/jon_stewart_vs_the_oscars.html |url-status=dead}} Stewart and correspondent John Oliver later poked fun at his lackluster reception on The Daily Show coverage of the 79th Academy Awards by saying that the "demon of last year's Oscars had finally been exorcised".{{Cite web |url=http://www.cc.com/video-clips/67h9vj/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-movie-award-program- |title=Movie Award Program! – The Daily Show with Jon Stewart (Video Clip) |website=Comedy Central |date=February 27, 2007 |access-date=October 15, 2019 |archive-date=October 15, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191015053404/http://www.cc.com/video-clips/67h9vj/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-movie-award-program- |url-status=dead}}

Stewart returned to host the 80th Academy Awards on February 24, 2008.{{cite news |date=February 25, 2008 |work=The New York Times |title=Reviewing Jon Stewart's Starring Role |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/25/arts/television/25watc.html |first=Alessandra |last=Stanley |access-date=February 9, 2017 |archive-date=January 5, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180105185109/http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/25/arts/television/25watc.html |url-status=live}} The reception to his performance was better this time. Matthew Gilbert of the Boston Globe felt the ceremony was average, but praised Stewart, writing that, "It was good to see Jon Stewart being Jon Stewart. He is shaping up to be a dependable Oscar host for the post-Billy Crystal years. He's not musical, but he's versatile enough to swing smoothly between jokes about politics, Hollywood, new media, and, most importantly, hair."{{cite news |last=Gilbert |first=Matthew |title=Looking back doesn't help show look good |url=https://www.boston.com/ae/movies/oscars/articles/2008/02/25/looking_back_doesnt_help_show_look_good/ |access-date=September 21, 2008 |work=Boston.com |date=February 25, 2008 |archive-date=July 20, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080720041952/http://www.boston.com/ae/movies/oscars/articles/2008/02/25/looking_back_doesnt_help_show_look_good |url-status=live}} Variety columnist Brian Lowry lauded Stewart's performance noting that he "earned his keep by maintaining a playful, irreverent tone throughout the night, whether it was jesting about Cate Blanchett's versatility or watching Lawrence of Arabia on an iPhone screen."{{cite news |url=https://variety.com/2008/film/reviews/the-80th-annual-academy-awards-from-your-couch-1200547810/ |title=The 80th Annual Academy Awards – From Your Couch |last=Lowry |first=Brian |date=February 24, 2008 |work=Variety |publisher=PMC |access-date=February 25, 2008 |archive-date=October 20, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141020022726/http://variety.com/2008/film/reviews/the-80th-annual-academy-awards-from-your-couch-1200547810/ |url-status=live}}

In December 2009, Stewart gave a speech at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts honoring Bruce Springsteen, one of that year's Kennedy Center Honors recipients, and of whom Stewart is a fan.[https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/bruce-springsteen-honored-at-kennedy-center-by-mellencamp-vedder-sting-20091230 "Bruce Springsteen Honored at Kennedy Center By Mellencamp, Vedder, Sting"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170614200852/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/bruce-springsteen-honored-at-kennedy-center-by-mellencamp-vedder-sting-20091230 |date=June 14, 2017}}. Rolling Stone. December 30, 2009. Stewart gave another speech paying tribute to Springsteen in February 2013 as part of the singer's MusiCares Person of the Year award ceremony.{{cite news |title=Jon Stewart To Host MusiCares Tribute To Bruce Springsteen |url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/02/jon-stewart-musicares-springsteen-grammys_n_2397728.html |work=The Huffington Post |date=January 2, 2013 |access-date=April 17, 2020 |archive-date=March 4, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304043056/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/02/jon-stewart-musicares-springsteen-grammys_n_2397728.html |url-status=live}}

Stewart began a comedic feud with WWE wrestler Seth Rollins in March 2015, and appeared on WWE Raw during a Daily Show-styled segment hosted by Rollins.{{cite magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/wwe-raw-jon-stewart-delivers-jersey-justice-20150303 |title='WWE Raw': Jon Stewart Delivers Jersey Justice |first=Kenny |last=Herzog |magazine=Rolling Stone |access-date=August 30, 2015 |date=March 3, 2015 |archive-date=August 27, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150827122204/http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/wwe-raw-jon-stewart-delivers-jersey-justice-20150303 |url-status=live}} On August 23, 2015, Stewart returned to host the WWE's SummerSlam at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.{{cite news |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/tv/2015/08/17/exclusive-jon-stewart-host-wwe-summerslam/31858675/ |title=Exclusive: Jon Stewart to host WWE SummerSlam |last=Truitt |first=Brian |date=August 18, 2015 |work=USA Today |access-date=August 22, 2015 |archive-date=August 23, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150823031739/http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/tv/2015/08/17/exclusive-jon-stewart-host-wwe-summerslam/31858675/ |url-status=live}} Later, he got involved in the main event between Rollins and John Cena, helping Rollins retain his WWE World Heavyweight Championship, as well as winning Cena's United States Championship when he interfered and hit Cena with a steel chair. The next night on Raw, he explained his actions, saying he did it for Ric Flair (who was also present), which was to retain his world championship record. Cena then gave Stewart his finishing move, the Attitude Adjustment, to end the segment. Stewart returned at SummerSlam on August 21, 2016, as a special guest.{{cite web |last1=Hanstock |first1=Bill |title=Jon Stewart Will Once Again Appear at WWE SummerSlam |url=http://uproxx.com/prowrestling/wwe-summerslam-2016-jon-stewart-special-guest/ |work=Uproxx |date=August 16, 2016 |access-date=August 17, 2016 |archive-date=August 18, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160818032813/http://uproxx.com/prowrestling/wwe-summerslam-2016-jon-stewart-special-guest/ |url-status=live}}

In 2016, Stewart joined President Barack Obama, Michelle Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, Jill Biden, and David Letterman in honoring military families on May 5 at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland. The special celebration which marked both the USO's 75th anniversary and the fifth anniversary of Joining Forces.{{cite web |url=https://www.uso.org/stories/295-a-celebration-of-service-highlights-from-the-uso-joining-forces-anniversary-show |title=A Celebration of Service: Highlights from the USO/Joining Forces Anniversary Show |date=May 18, 2020 |access-date=May 19, 2020 |archive-date=September 21, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200921160442/https://www.uso.org/stories/295-a-celebration-of-service-highlights-from-the-uso-joining-forces-anniversary-show |url-status=live}}

Stewart got into a Twitter argument with then-presidential candidate Donald Trump, who in multiple tweets stated that Stewart changing his name indicated that he was a fraud. Stewart and some analysts considered this to be anti-Semitic. Trump then tweeted that Stewart should be "proud of his heritage", and Stewart tweeted back, facetiously, that Trump's real name was "Fuckface Von Clownstick" and that Trump should be proud of the "Clownstick heritage".{{cite news|first=Ryan|last=Bort|url=http://www.newsweek.com/jon-stewart-calls-action-against-trump-colbert-551226|title=Jon Stewart thinks Trump can make America great ... just not the way you might think|newspaper=Newsweek|date=February 1, 2017|access-date=August 21, 2017|archive-date=August 21, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170821222243/http://www.newsweek.com/jon-stewart-calls-action-against-trump-colbert-551226|url-status=live}}{{cite magazine |url=https://www.gq.com/story/jon-stewart-donald-trump-burns |title=Jon Stewart's Latest Donald Trump Burns Will Make You Really, Really Miss Jon Stewart |first=Rohan |last=Nadkarni |magazine=GQ |date=May 10, 2016 |access-date=August 21, 2017 |archive-date=August 21, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170821215422/https://www.gq.com/story/jon-stewart-donald-trump-burns |url-status=live}}{{cite web |url=http://www.salon.com/2015/06/17/jon_stewarts_dream_just_came_true_donald_trump_running_is_a_gift_from_heaven/ |title=Jon Stewart's dream just came true: Donald Trump running is a "gift from heaven" |first=Colin |last=Gorenstein |date=June 17, 2015 |website=Salon |access-date=August 21, 2017 |archive-date=August 21, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170821212441/http://www.salon.com/2015/06/17/jon_stewarts_dream_just_came_true_donald_trump_running_is_a_gift_from_heaven/ |url-status=live}}

In June 2017, Stewart spoke at the funeral service for Ray Pfeifer, an FDNY firefighter from Hicksville, New York, who died after an eight-year battle with cancer as a result of service as a first responder at the September 11 attacks.Archived at [https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/w6__eNW_3Uo Ghostarchive]{{cbignore}} and the [https://web.archive.org/web/20170603074256/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6__eNW_3Uo Wayback Machine]{{cbignore}}: {{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6__eNW_3Uo|title= Jon Stewart's Eulogy for 9/11 first responder Raymond Pfeifer|website= Youtube|date= June 2, 2017|access-date= May 9, 2021}}{{cbignore}}

Stewart has said his influences include George Carlin,{{cite video |people=Stewart, Jon |title=George Carlin: 40 Years of Comedy |medium=TV |publisher=HBO |date=February 27, 1997}} Lenny Bruce,{{cite web |url=http://www.duckprods.com/projects/lennybruce/lb-nytimesfeature.html |title=There Was Thought in His Rage |work=The New York Times |last=Keepnews |first=Peter |date=August 8, 1999 |access-date=June 23, 2008 |archive-date=July 5, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080705082815/http://www.duckprods.com/projects/lennybruce/lb-nytimesfeature.html |url-status=live}} Woody Allen,{{cite web |url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/tv/showtracker/la-et-st-jon-stewart-the-daily-show-december-25-1998-20150804-story.html |title=Our take on Jon Stewart in 1998: 'He's practically made a career out of almost hosting other people's talk shows' |first=Paul |last=Brownfield |website=Los Angeles Times |date=December 25, 1998 |access-date=March 13, 2019 |archive-date=March 29, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190329210332/https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/tv/showtracker/la-et-st-jon-stewart-the-daily-show-december-25-1998-20150804-story.html |url-status=live}} David Letterman,{{cite video |people=Stewart, Jon |title=The 57th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards |medium=TV |publisher=CBS |date=September 18, 2005}} Steve Martin, and Richard Pryor.

Among comedians who say they were influenced by Stewart are Stephen Colbert, John Oliver,{{cite news | url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/comedy/comedy-news/11546015/How-John-Oliver-became-an-American-star.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220111/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/comedy/comedy-news/11546015/How-John-Oliver-became-an-American-star.html |archive-date=January 11, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=How John Oliver became an American star |work=The Daily Telegraph |access-date=April 17, 2015 |location=London |date=April 17, 2015}}{{cbignore}} Hasan Minhaj,{{cite web |url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/hasan-minhaj-daily-show-patriot-act_n_5b76e36de4b0a5b1febac188 |title=Hasan Minhaj Reveals The Heart-Stopping Moment That Changed His Career |work=The Huffington Post |date=May 26, 2020 |access-date=May 26, 2020 |archive-date=January 25, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210125114411/https://www.huffpost.com/entry/hasan-minhaj-daily-show-patriot-act_n_5b76e36de4b0a5b1febac188 |url-status=live}} Samantha Bee,{{cite web |url=http://www.businessinsider.com/the-daily-show-comedians-who-got-their-start-2015-7 |title=12 influential comedy careers Jon Stewart helped launch on 'The Daily Show' |work=Business Insider |last=Phillips |first=Ian |date=August 6, 2015 |access-date=January 25, 2017 |archive-date=February 2, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170202033709/http://www.businessinsider.com/the-daily-show-comedians-who-got-their-start-2015-7 |url-status=live}} Larry Wilmore,{{cite magazine |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2015/01/the-soft-touch-and-hard-topics-of-the-nightly-show-with-larry-wilmore/384709 |title=The Fearless Comedy of The Nightly Show With Larry Wilmore |magazine=The Atlantic |date=January 21, 2015 |access-date=June 3, 2015 |archive-date=June 10, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150610071849/http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2015/01/the-soft-touch-and-hard-topics-of-the-nightly-show-with-larry-wilmore/384709/ |url-status=live}} Bassem Youssef,{{cite magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/how-egypts-jon-stewart-went-from-public-enemy-to-tv-star-73486/ |title=How 'Egypt's Jon Stewart' Went From Public Enemy to TV Star |first1=Matthew |last1=Love |magazine=Rolling Stone |date=July 14, 2016 |access-date=June 17, 2019 |archive-date=June 17, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190617051527/https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/how-egypts-jon-stewart-went-from-public-enemy-to-tv-star-73486/ |url-status=live}} Seth Meyers,{{cite web|last1=Timberg|first1=Scott|title=The stars aligned for Seth Meyers: "That was more dumb luck than anything else"|url=https://www.salon.com/2016/06/25/the_stars_aligned_for_seth_meyers_that_was_more_dumb_luck_than_anything_else/|website=Salon|access-date=March 3, 2018|date=June 25, 2016}} Trevor Noah,{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2015/mar/30/trevor-noah-jon-stewart-daily-show-host |title=Trevor Noah to succeed Jon Stewart as host of The Daily Show |newspaper=The Guardian |date=March 30, 2015 |access-date=March 30, 2015 |archive-date=April 1, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210401171159/https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2015/mar/30/trevor-noah-jon-stewart-daily-show-host |url-status=live}} Desi Lydic,{{Cite web |last=White |first=Peter |date=2024-05-14 |title='The Daily Show's Desi Lydic Steps Up To The Desk |url=https://deadline.com/2024/05/the-daily-show-desi-lydic-interview-1235911787/ |access-date=2024-12-02 |website=Deadline |language=en-US}} and Jordan Klepper.{{cite web |url=https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5a202d6de4b037b8ea206cd4 |title=Jordan Klepper Channels Jon Stewart in His Own Search For Sanity |work=HuffPost |last=Van Luling |first=Todd |date=December 6, 2017 |access-date=December 12, 2017 |archive-date=March 4, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220304101128/https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jordan-klepper-the-opposition-jon-stewart_n_5a202d6de4b037b8ea206cd4 |url-status=live}}

{{modern liberalism US|commentators}}

In 2000, when he was labeled a Democrat, Stewart generally agreed, but described his political affiliation as "more socialist or independent" than Democratic.{{cite news |title=CNN Transcript: Larry King Live: Jon Stewart Looks Back at Election 2000 |work=Larry King Live |publisher=CNN |date=December 15, 2000 |url=http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0012/15/lkl.00.html |access-date=March 25, 2007 |archive-date=May 24, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070524034356/http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0012/15/lkl.00.html |url-status=dead}} Stewart has also voted for Republicans, the last time being in the 1988 presidential election when he voted for George H. W. Bush over Michael Dukakis. He described Bush as having "an integrity about him that I respected greatly."{{cite news |last=Pierce |first=Tony |title=Jon Stewart admits he voted for George H.W. Bush in 1988 and is disappointed in Obama |url=http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2011/06/jon-stewart-admits-he-voted-for-george-hw-bush-over-michael-dukakis-in-1988.html |newspaper=The Los Angeles Times |date=June 20, 2011 |access-date=April 6, 2013 |archive-date=September 21, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130921055538/http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2011/06/jon-stewart-admits-he-voted-for-george-hw-bush-over-michael-dukakis-in-1988.html |url-status=live}} Stewart has said that during the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries, he was not a supporter of nominee Joe Biden, describing himself as more of a, "Sanders, Warren guy."{{cite web |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/jon-stewart-why-joe-bidens-humility-makes-him-right-leader-us-1300362/|title=Jon Stewart Explains Why Joe Biden's "Humility" Makes Him the "Man of the Moment"|last=Del Rosario|first=Alexandra |date=June 25, 2020 |via=The Hollywood Reporter}} He reluctantly supported his candidacy in 2020, but has criticized him since then over his age, and his handling of the 2023 Gaza war.{{cite web |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/jon-stewart-daily-show-monologue-1235822972/|title=Jon Stewart Rips Trump AND Biden in 'Daily Show' Return: "Similarly Challenged"|last=Hibberd|first=James|date=February 12, 2024 |via=The Hollywood Reporter}}{{cite web |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/jon-stewart-biden-double-standards-israel-1235869701/|title=Jon Stewart Calls Out Biden Administration's Double Standards on Israel: "They Slap America in the Face"|last=Rahman|first=Abid|date=April 9, 2024 |via=The Hollywood Reporter}} He has been a vocal proponent of the United States implementing a single-payer healthcare system.{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pmr3XvaoVW4 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131213062304/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pmr3XvaoVW4| archive-date=December 13, 2013 | url-status=dead|title=O'Reilly vs Stewart debate |last=Nick of Time |date=October 7, 2012 |via=YouTube}}

Stewart is known as an outspoken, humorous critic of personality-driven media shows, in particular, those of the US media broadcast networks such as CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC. Critics say Stewart benefits from a double standard: he critiques other news shows from the safe, removed position of his "news satire" desk;{{cite magazine |last=Tucker |first=Ken |author-link=Ken Tucker |date=November 1, 2004 |title=You Can't Be Serious! |url=https://nymag.com/nymetro/arts/tv/10180/ |magazine=New York |access-date=July 26, 2006 |archive-date=March 17, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070317222016/http://nymag.com/nymetro/arts/tv/10180/ |url-status=live}}{{cite news |url=http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0410/15/cf.01.html |title=CNN Crossfire |access-date=April 23, 2008 |publisher=CNN |archive-date=May 25, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130525043846/http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0410/15/cf.01.html |url-status=live}} Stewart asserts that neither his show nor Comedy Central purport to be anything other than satire and comedy.

{{Main |Jon Stewart's 2004 appearance on Crossfire}}

In a televised exchange with then-CNN correspondent Tucker Carlson on Crossfire on October 15, 2004, Stewart criticized the state of television journalism and pleaded with the show's hosts to "stop hurting America", and he referred to both Carlson and co-host Paul Begala as "partisan hacks".{{cite video |people=Jon Stewart, Tucker Carlson |title=Crossfire |medium=Television |publisher=CNN |date=2004}} When posted on the internet, this exchange became widely viewed and was a topic of much media discussion.[https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=aFQFB5YpDZE Jon Stewart on Crossfire] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211208034124/https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=aFQFB5YpDZE |date=December 8, 2021}}, October 15, 2004, Youtube

Despite being on the program to comment on current events, Stewart immediately shifted the discussion toward the show itself, asserting that Crossfire had failed in its responsibility to inform and educate viewers about politics as a serious topic. Stewart stated that the show engaged in partisan hackery instead of honest debate, and said that the hosts' assertion that Crossfire is a debate show is like "saying pro wrestling is a show about athletic competition". Carlson responded by accusing Stewart of hypocrisy, stating that Stewart's interview of John Kerry was primarily "softball" questions, though Stewart criticizes news organizations for not holding public officials accountable (Stewart had stated that he had voted for Kerry in the 2004 presidential election).{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2008/08/25/ST2008082503384.html |url-access=subscription |title=No Joke: Jon Stewart Takes Aim At 24-Hour Cable News 'Beast' |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=August 25, 2008 |access-date=September 17, 2010 |first=Howard |last=Kurtz |archive-date=September 1, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120901070725/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2008/08/25/ST2008082503384.html |url-status=live}} Stewart responded that he didn't realize "the news organizations look to Comedy Central for their cues on integrity". When Carlson continued to press Stewart on the Kerry issue, Stewart said, "You're on CNN! The show that leads into me is puppets making crank phone calls! What is wrong with you?" In response to prods from Carlson, "Come on. Be funny." Stewart said, "No, I'm not going to be your monkey." Later in the show when Carlson jibed, "I do think you're more fun on your show", Stewart retorted, "You're as big a dick on your show as you are on any show." In response to Stewart's criticisms, Carlson said, "You need to get a job at a journalism school", to which Stewart responded, "You need to go to one!"

Stewart discussed the incident on The Daily Show the following Monday:

{{blockquote |We decided to go to this place, Crossfire, which is a nuanced public policy analysis show ... named after the stray bullets that hit innocent bystanders in a gang fight. So I go to Crossfire and, let's face it, I was dehydrated, it's the Martin Lawrence defense ... and I had always in the past mentioned to friends and people that I meet on the street that I think that show ... um ... blows. So I thought it was only the right thing to do to go say it to them personally on their program, but here's the thing about confronting someone with that on their show: They're there! Uncomfortable! And they were very mad, because apparently, when you invite someone on a show called Crossfire and you express an opinion, they don't care for that ... I told them that I felt their show was hurting America and they came back at me pretty good, they said that I wasn't being funny. And I said to them, "I know that, but tomorrow I will go back to being funny, and your show will still blow."{{cite web |last=Stewart |first=Jon |title=Your Show Blows |publisher=Comedy Central |date=October 18, 2004 |url=https://www.cc.com/video-clips/mr122o |access-date=June 12, 2019 |work=The Daily Show with Jon Stewart }}}}

In January 2005, CNN announced that it was canceling Crossfire. When asked about the cancellation, CNN's incoming president, Jonathan Klein, referred to Stewart's appearance on the show: "I think he made a good point about the noise level of these types of shows, which does nothing to illuminate the issues of the day."{{cite news |last=Kurtz |first=Howard |author-link=Howard Kurtz |title=Carlson & 'Crossfire,' Exit Stage Left & Right |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=January 6, 2004 |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52274-2005Jan6.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=July 26, 2006 |archive-date=January 11, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070111060200/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52274-2005Jan6.html |url-status=live}}

On March 18, 2009, Carlson wrote a blog entry for The Daily Beast criticizing Stewart for his handling of the CNBC controversy (see below). Carlson discussed the CNN incident and claimed that Stewart remained backstage for at least "an hour" and "continued to lecture our staff", something Carlson described as, "one of the weirdest things I have ever seen".{{cite web |first=Tucker |last=Carlson |author-link=Tucker Carlson |url=http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-03-18/how-jon-stewart-went-bad |title=How Jon Stewart Went Bad |website=The Daily Beast |date=March 18, 2009 |access-date=March 19, 2009 |archive-date=March 20, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090320222422/http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-03-18/how-jon-stewart-went-bad/ |url-status=live}}

{{Main |Jon Stewart–Jim Cramer conflict}}

Stewart again became a viral internet phenomenon following a March 4, 2009, The Daily Show sequence. CNBC canceled Rick Santelli's scheduled appearance on The Daily Show that day, so the show ran a short segment showing CNBC giving poor investment advice.{{cite news |last=Linkins |first=Jason |title=Jon Stewart Eviscerates CNBC, Santelli On Daily Show |work=The Huffington Post |date=March 5, 2009 |url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/03/05/jon-stewart-eviscerates-c_n_172057.html |access-date=March 5, 2009 |archive-date=March 5, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090305151739/http://www.huffingtonpost.com//2009//03//05//jon-stewart-eviscerates-c_n_172057.html |url-status=live}}

Subsequent media coverage of exchanges between Stewart and Jim Cramer, who had been featured heavily in the original segment, led to a highly anticipated face-to-face confrontation on The Daily Show.{{cite news |last=Gold |first=Matea |title=Exclusive: Jim Cramer set to appear on The Daily Show Thursday |newspaper=The Los Angeles Times |date=March 10, 2009 |url=http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/showtracker/2009/03/exclusive-jim-c.html |access-date=March 10, 2009 |archive-date=March 12, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090312002731/http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/showtracker/2009/03/exclusive-jim-c.html |url-status=live}} The episode received much media attention and became the second most-viewed episode of The Daily Show, trailing only the 2009 Inauguration Day episode. It had 2.3 million total viewers, and the next day, the show's website saw its highest day of traffic in 2009.{{cite web |last=Lafayette |first=Jon |title=Stewart-Cramer Confrontation Draws 'Daily's' Second-Biggest Audience of '09 |website=TVWeek.com |date=March 13, 2009 |url=http://www.tvweek.com/news/2009/03/stewartcramer_confrontation_dr.php |access-date=March 14, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090315003518/http://www.tvweek.com/news/2009/03/stewartcramer_confrontation_dr.php |archive-date=March 15, 2009}} Although Cramer acknowledged on the show that some of Stewart's criticisms of CNBC were valid and that the network could "do better", he later said on The Today Show that Stewart's criticism of the media was "naïve and misleading".{{Cite news |last=Calderon |first=Michael |title=Cramer slams Stewart: 'naive and misleading' |url=http://www.politico.com/blogs/michaelcalderone/0309/Cramer_slams_Stewart_naive_and_misleading.html |website=Politico |date=March 19, 2009 |access-date=March 20, 2009 |archive-date=March 22, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090322095640/http://www.politico.com/blogs/michaelcalderone/0309/Cramer_slams_Stewart_naive_and_misleading.html |url-status=live}}

Throughout his tenure on The Daily Show, Stewart frequently accused Fox News of distorting the news to fit a conservative agenda, at one point ridiculing the network as "the meanest sorority in the world".{{cite news |url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/12/stewart-fox-news-is-the-m_n_496403.html |title=Stewart: Fox News Is The Meanest Sorority In The World |date=March 12, 2010 |work=The Huffington Post |access-date=April 25, 2010 |first=Dan |last=Abramson |archive-date=March 16, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100316051510/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/12/stewart-fox-news-is-the-m_n_496403.html |url-status=live}} In November 2009, Stewart "called out" Fox News for using some footage from a previous Tea Party rally during a report on a more recent rally, making the latter event appear more highly attended than it was. The show's anchor, Sean Hannity, apologized for the footage use the following night.{{cite news |url=http://blog.seattlepi.com/thebigblog/archives/184866.asp |title=Video Fix: Jon Stewart catches Fox News using wrong footage |last=Hong |first=Sharon |date=November 11, 2009 |publisher=Seattle PI |access-date=April 25, 2010 |archive-date=October 1, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101001232700/http://blog.seattlepi.com/thebigblog/archives/184866.asp |url-status=live}} A month later, Stewart criticized Fox & Friends cohost Gretchen Carlson – a former Miss America and a Stanford graduate – for claiming that she googled words such as "ignoramus" and "czar". Stewart said that Carlson was dumbing herself down for "an audience who sees intellect as an elitist flaw".{{cite news |url=http://www.cc.com/video-clips/ahba3f/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-gretchen-carlson-dumbs-down |title=Gretchen Carlson Dumbs Down |date=December 8, 2009 |work=The Daily Show |access-date=April 25, 2010 |archive-date=October 9, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151009060340/http://www.cc.com/video-clips/ahba3f/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-gretchen-carlson-dumbs-down |url-status=dead}}

Stewart stepped up his criticism of Fox News in 2010; within five months, The Daily Show had 24 segments criticizing the Fox News coverage. Bill O'Reilly, host of the talk show The O'Reilly Factor on Fox News, countered that The Daily Show was a "key component of left-wing television" and that Stewart loved Fox News because the network was "not boring".

During an interview with Chris Wallace on June 19, 2011, Stewart called Wallace "insane" for saying that Stewart's earlier comparison of the marketing techniques of a Sarah Palin campaign video and an anti-herpes medicine ad was a political comment. Stewart also said Fox viewers are the "most consistently misinformed" viewers of political media.{{cite news |url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/19/jon-stewart-fox-news-sunday-video_n_879964.html |title=Jon Stewart LIVE On Fox News, Tells Host 'You're Insane' (VIDEO) [UPDATE] |work=The Huffington Post |access-date=September 16, 2012 |date=June 19, 2011 |archive-date=August 16, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120816163029/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/19/jon-stewart-fox-news-sunday-video_n_879964.html |url-status=live}} This comment was ranked by the fact-checking site, PolitiFact, as false, with conditions. Stewart later accepted his error.{{cite web |url=http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2011/jun/20/jon-stewart/jon-stewart-says-those-who-watch-fox-news-are-most |title=Jon Stewart says those who watch Fox News are the "most consistently misinformed media viewers" |website=PolitiFact |access-date=August 24, 2014 |archive-date=August 28, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140828144228/http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2011/jun/20/jon-stewart/jon-stewart-says-those-who-watch-fox-news-are-most/ |url-status=live}}

In 2014, Stewart engaged in an extended "call-out" of Fox News, based on their coverage of food stamps and US government assistance, opining that said coverage was biased.{{cite web |url=http://thedailyshow.cc.com/videos/v9wjc4/fox-news-welfare-academy |title=Fox News Welfare Academy – Video Clip |website=The Daily Show |date=March 13, 2014 |access-date=August 24, 2014 |archive-date=March 4, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220304101120/https://www.cc.com/shows/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah |url-status=dead}} This culminated in segments across multiple episodes, specifically singling out Sean Hannity and his show's coverage of the Bundy standoff. Hannity would "return fire" by calling out Stewart for associating himself with Cat Stevens during his Rally in 2010.{{cite news |last=Wemple |first=Erik |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2014/04/25/no-sean-hannity-you-cant-distance-yourself-from-cliven-bundy |url-access=subscription |title=No, Sean Hannity, you can't distance yourself from Cliven Bundy |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=August 15, 2014 |access-date=August 24, 2014 |archive-date=July 11, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140711222714/http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2014/04/25/no-sean-hannity-you-cant-distance-yourself-from-cliven-bundy/ |url-status=live}} Stewart responded to this by criticizing Hannity for frequently calling Ted Nugent a "friend and frequent guest" on his program and supporting Nugent's violent rhetoric toward Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton in 2007.{{cite news |url=http://www.salon.com/2014/04/24/must_see_morning_clip_jon_stewart_calls_sean_hannitys_show_the_arbys_of_news |title=Must-see morning clip: Jon Stewart calls Sean Hannity's show "the Arby's of news" |work=Salon |date=April 24, 2014 |access-date=August 24, 2014 |archive-date=July 5, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140705124417/http://www.salon.com/2014/04/24/must_see_morning_clip_jon_stewart_calls_sean_hannitys_show_the_arbys_of_news/ |url-status=live}} In late August 2014, Stewart criticized the manner in which Fox News portrayed the events surrounding the shooting of teenager Michael Brown by police officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri, and the subsequent protests from citizens.{{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/news/daily-shows-jon-stewart-destroys-fox-news-for-its-ferguson-coverage-9697444.html |title=Daily Show's Jon Stewart destroys Fox News for its Ferguson coverage |work=The Independent |access-date=March 13, 2015 |first=Natasha |last=Culzac |date=August 28, 2014 |archive-date=March 21, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150321091733/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/news/daily-shows-jon-stewart-destroys-fox-news-for-its-ferguson-coverage-9697444.html |url-status=live}}

{{Main|Who Made Huckabee?}}

Stewart was an important factor in the unionization of the Comedy Central writers. The Daily Show writers were the first of Comedy Central's writers to be able to join the guild, after which other shows followed.{{cite web |access-date=April 23, 2008 |url=http://www.wga.org/subpage_newsevents.aspx?id=2387 |title=Comedy Central Writers Win WGA Contract |publisher=WGA |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080102203818/http://www.wga.org/subpage_newsevents.aspx?id=2387 |archive-date=January 2, 2008}}{{cite web |access-date=April 23, 2008 |url=http://www.allbusiness.com/services/legal-services/4465402-1.html |title=Union Deal for 'Daily Show' Writers |publisher=AllBusiness.com |archive-date=January 11, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080111134615/http://www.allbusiness.com/services/legal-services/4465402-1.html |url-status=live}}

Stewart supported the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike. On The Daily Show episode just before the strike, he sarcastically commented about how Comedy Central had made available all episodes for free on their website, but without advertising, and said, "go support our advertisers". The show went on hiatus when the strike began, as did other late-night talk shows. Upon Stewart's return to the show on January 7, 2008, he refused to use the title, The Daily Show, stating that The Daily Show was the show made with all of the people responsible for the broadcast, including his writers. During the strike, he referred to his show as A Daily Show with Jon Stewart until the strike ended on February 13, 2008.{{cite web |date=January 18, 2008 |access-date=September 4, 2016 |url=http://www.today.com/id/22571544/ns/today-today_entertainment/t/colbert-stewart-make-do-without-writers/ |title=Colbert, Stewart Make Do Without Writers |work=Today |archive-date=September 5, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160905160010/http://www.today.com/id/22571544/ns/today-today_entertainment/t/colbert-stewart-make-do-without-writers |url-status=live}}

Stewart's choice to return to the air did bring criticism that he was undermining the writers of his show. Seth MacFarlane wrote an inside joke into an episode of Family Guy about this, causing Stewart to respond with an hour-long call in which he questioned how MacFarlane could consider himself the "moral arbiter" of Hollywood.Archived at [https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/NrcOge6pMhg Ghostarchive]{{cbignore}} and the [https://web.archive.org/web/20121211193451/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrcOge6pMhg&gl=US&hl=en Wayback Machine]{{cbignore}}: {{cite web |last=Morgan |first=Piers |title=Seth MacFarlane Interview |date=October 4, 2011 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrcOge6pMhg |publisher=CNN}}{{cbignore}} Former Daily Show writer David Feldman also accused Stewart of being anti-union at the time and of punishing his writers for their decision to unionize by not using their material.{{cite web |last=David |first=Feldman |title=Former Daily Show Writer Accuses Jon Stewart of Punishing His Writers For Forming A Union |date=May 25, 2012 |url=http://www.patheos.com/blogs/camelswithhammers/2012/05/is-jon-stewart-anti-union/ |publisher=Patheos |access-date=May 25, 2012 |archive-date=September 26, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120926234305/http://www.patheos.com/blogs/camelswithhammers/2012/05/is-jon-stewart-anti-union/ |url-status=live}}

The Writers Guild Strike of 2007–2008 also was responsible for a notable mock feud between Stewart, Stephen Colbert, and Conan O'Brien in early 2008. Without writers to help fuel their banter, the three comedians concocted a crossover/rivalry to garner more viewers during the ratings slump. Colbert claimed that because of "the Colbert bump", he was responsible for Mike Huckabee's success in the 2008 presidential race. O'Brien claimed that he was responsible for Huckabee's success because not only had he mentioned Huckabee on his show, but also that he was responsible for Chuck Norris's success (Norris backed Huckabee). In response, Stewart claimed that he was responsible for the success of O'Brien since Stewart had featured him on The Jon Stewart Show, and in turn, the success of Huckabee. This resulted in a three-part comedic battle among the three pundits, with all three appearing on each other's shows. The feud ended on Late Night with Conan O'Brien with a mock brawl involving the three hosts.[http://www.today.com/id/23017599 "Conan, Stewart, Colbert unite in TV feud"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200930033627/http://www.today.com/id/23017599 |date=September 30, 2020}}, February 5, 2008

{{main|James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act}}

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Over the years, Stewart sometimes used The Daily Show to argue for causes such as the treatment of veterans and 9/11 first responders. He is credited with breaking a Senate deadlock over a bill to provide health care and benefits for 9/11 emergency workers; the bill passed three days after he featured a group of 9/11 responders on the show. In March 2009, he criticized a White House proposal to remove veterans from Veterans Administration rolls if they had private health insurance; the White House dropped the plan the next day. In 2010, Stewart held an interview with a panel of four of the 9/11 first responders—Kenny Specht with the FDNY, Chris Bowman NYPD, Ken George DOT, and Kevin Devlin, Operating Engineer of Heavy Equipment—who discussed their health problems with Stewart. In 2015, four months after leaving The Daily Show, he returned to reunite the four with Specht as the only panelist healthy enough to attend. Devlin had died and the two other panelists, Bowman and George, were too ill to make it to the show.{{cite web |url=https://www.ems1.com/ems-advocacy/articles/jon-stewart-reconvenes-panel-of-911-first-responders-VJLSkjUpBQlvXvN8/ |title=Jon Stewart reconvenes panel of 9/11 first responders |website=EMS1 |date=December 8, 2015 |access-date=May 26, 2020 |archive-date=September 28, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200928193616/https://www.ems1.com/ems-advocacy/articles/jon-stewart-reconvenes-panel-of-911-first-responders-VJLSkjUpBQlvXvN8/ |url-status=live}}{{cite web |url=https://www.cc.com/video-clips/nuwe6u |title=9/11 FIRST RESPONDERS REACT TO THE SENATE FILIBUSTER |website=Comedy Central |date=December 17, 2010 |access-date=May 26, 2020 |archive-date=March 24, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180324101742/http://www.cc.com/video-clips/nuwe6u/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-9-11-first-responders-react-to-the-senate-filibuster |url-status=live}}

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In February and June 2019, Stewart again went to Congress to oppose the $7.375 billion limit in pay-outs to 9/11 first responders through December 2020 and to lobby for permanent funding for the Victims Compensation Fund past December 2020, delivering a tearful testimony.{{cite news |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/jon-stewart-blasts-congress-failure-fund-9-11-victim-program-n975776 |title=Jon Stewart blasts Congress' failure to fund 9/11 victim program |last=Tsirkin |first=Julie |date=February 25, 2019 |work=NBC News |access-date=March 13, 2019 |archive-date=March 3, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190303175852/https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/jon-stewart-blasts-congress-failure-fund-9-11-victim-program-n975776 |url-status=live}}{{cite news |last1=Tillett |first1=Emily |last2=Segers |first2=Grace |title=Jon Stewart lashes out at hearing on 9/11 responders bill: "You should be ashamed of yourselves" |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/victim-compensation-fund-jon-stewart-lashes-out-at-house-hearing-on-911-responders-bill-you-should-be-ashamed-of/ |access-date=June 11, 2019 |work=CBS News |date=June 11, 2019 |archive-date=June 11, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190611183605/https://www.cbsnews.com/news/victim-compensation-fund-jon-stewart-lashes-out-at-house-hearing-on-911-responders-bill-you-should-be-ashamed-of/ |url-status=live}}

{{blockquote |Sick and dying, they brought themselves down here to speak to no one. Shameful. It's an embarrassment to the country and it's a stain on this institution. And you should be ashamed of yourselves for those that aren't here. But you won't be because accountability doesn't appear to be something that occurs in this chamber...And I'm sorry if I sound angry and undiplomatic. But I'm angry, and you should be too, and they're all angry as well and they have every justification to be that way. There is not a person here, there is not an empty chair on that stage that didn't tweet out "Never Forget the heroes of 9/11. Never forget their bravery. Never forget what they did, what they gave to this country." Well, here they are. And where are they? And it would be one thing if their callous indifference and rank hypocrisy were benign, but it's not. Your indifference cost these men and women their most valuable commodity: time. It's the one thing they're running out of.{{cite web |url=https://www.npr.org/2019/06/11/731706492/jon-stewart-blasts-lawmakers-in-hearing-for-sept-11-victim-compensation |title=Jon Stewart Slams Lawmakers in Hearing For Sept. 11 Victim Compensation Fund |website=NPR |date=June 11, 2019 |access-date=May 26, 2020 |last1=Carter |first1=Brandon |archive-date=July 2, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200702064803/https://www.npr.org/2019/06/11/731706492/jon-stewart-blasts-lawmakers-in-hearing-for-sept-11-victim-compensation |url-status=live}}{{cite news |url=https://nypost.com/2019/06/12/read-jon-stewarts-full-testimony-supporting-the-9-11-victims-fund/ |title=Read Jon Stewart's full testimony supporting the 9/11 victims fund |work=New York Post |date=June 12, 2019 |access-date=May 26, 2020 |archive-date=October 22, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201022102133/https://nypost.com/2019/06/12/read-jon-stewarts-full-testimony-supporting-the-9-11-victims-fund/ |url-status=live}}}}

Stewart continued to be a vocal advocate, appearing on late night shows such as The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, and news programs such as Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace, and The Fox Report with Shepherd Smith.{{cite web |url=https://www.politico.com/story/2019/06/16/jon-stewart-continues-to-push-congress-on-behalf-of-9-11-victims-1365861 |title=Jon Stewart continues to push Congress on behalf of 9/11 Victims |website=Politico |date=June 16, 2019 |access-date=May 26, 2020 |archive-date=August 5, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200805052931/https://www.politico.com/story/2019/06/16/jon-stewart-continues-to-push-congress-on-behalf-of-9-11-victims-1365861 |url-status=live}} On July 12, 2019, the House approved the bill overwhelmingly 402–12. The bill came to the Senate floor where it passed the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund through 2092, virtually funding health care for 9/11 victims and first responders for life.{{cite web |url=https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/23/senate-overwhelmingly-passes-911-victim-fund-bill-97-2.html |title=Senate overwhelmingly passes 9/11 victim fund bill, 97–2 |website=CNBC |date=July 23, 2019 |access-date=May 26, 2020 |archive-date=November 7, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201107232401/https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/23/senate-overwhelmingly-passes-911-victim-fund-bill-97-2.html |url-status=live}} The vote was 97–2 with Republican senators Rand Paul (KY) and Mike Lee (UT) opposing.{{cite web |url=https://www.newsweek.com/despite-temporary-republican-roadblocks-congress-renews-9-11-victims-fund-1450712 |title=Republicans Mike Lee, Rand Paul Were Lone Senators to not Renew 9/11 Victims Fund for First Responders |website=Newsweek |date=July 23, 2019 |access-date=May 26, 2020 |archive-date=September 18, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200918183919/https://www.newsweek.com/despite-temporary-republican-roadblocks-congress-renews-9-11-victims-fund-1450712 |url-status=live}} When hearing that the bill had been passed, Stewart responded by saying, "It has been the honor of my life working with the 9/11 first responders...these families deserve better...and I will follow you wherever your next adventure shall be."Archived at [https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/I2GfC5hdsGY Ghostarchive]{{cbignore}} and the [https://web.archive.org/web/20201027105246/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2GfC5hdsGY&gl=US&hl=en Wayback Machine]{{cbignore}}: {{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2GfC5hdsGY|title=Jon Stewart: 9/11 work 'has been the honor of my life'|date=July 23, 2019 |via=YouTube}}{{cbignore}}

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On September 30, 2021, Stewart debuted his Apple TV+ show, The Problem with Jon Stewart by discussing the effects burn pits have had on veterans. Earlier in 2021, the bill Honoring our Promise to Address Comprehensive Toxics Act of 2021 (PACT Act) was introduced. The House of Representatives passed the bill by 256–174 on March 3, 2022,{{Cite web |last=Takano |first=Mark |date=March 1, 2022 |title=Actions - H.R.3967 - 117th Congress (2021–2022): Honoring our PACT Act of 2021 |url=https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/3967/all-actions |access-date=March 3, 2022 |website=www.congress.gov}}{{Cite web |last=Kheel |first=Rebecca |date=March 3, 2022 |title=Sweeping Toxic Exposure Bill Passed by House |url=https://www.military.com/daily-news/2022/03/03/sweeping-toxic-exposure-bill-passed-house.html |access-date=March 8, 2022 |website=Military.com |language=en}} and passed the Senate by 84–14 on June 16, 2022.{{Cite web |date=June 16, 2022 |title=Senate passes amended version of PACT act, providing health care benefits to veterans |url=https://www.wwaytv3.com/senate-passes-amended-version-of-pact-act-providing-health-care-benefits-to-veterans/ |access-date=June 17, 2022 |website=WWAYTV3 |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |date=June 16, 2022 |title=Senators celebrate passage of Honoring our Pact Act |url=https://www.wavy.com/washington-dc/senators-celebrate-passage-of-honoring-our-pact-act/ |access-date=June 17, 2022 |website=WAVY.com |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |title=Senate passes the PACT Act to provide more help to veterans exposed to burn pits and other toxins |url=https://www.stripes.com/veterans/2022-06-16/burn-pits-veterans-pact-act-6364767.html |access-date=June 17, 2022 |website=Stars and Stripes |language=en}} The bill was reintroduced to the Senate for minor changes which Republican senators including Pat Toomey, Ted Cruz, and Josh Hawley voted against, putting the bill in jeopardy. Their opposition was the unfounded claim that the bill could be used as a slush fund.{{cite web|url= https://www.post-gazette.com/news/politics-nation/2022/08/01/toomey-amendment-budget-gimmick-veterans-health-pact-act-burn-pit-cancer-toxins-agent-orange/stories/202208010064|title= Sen. Pat Toomey defends his effort to remove 'budget gimmick' from veterans health bill to address illnesses from burn pits, other toxins|work=Pittsburgh Post-Gazette |access-date= August 4, 2022}}

Stewart became a prominent advocate for the bill in person, on Twitter and on various cable news shows including Fox News' America's Newsroom with Bill Hemmer, CNN's The Lead with Jake Tapper, MSNBC's Morning Joe, and Newsmax.{{cite web|url= https://www.thewrap.com/jon-stewart-pact-act-jake-tapper-cnn-interview/|title= Jon Stewart Drops F-Bombs on CNN, Calls Out GOP Senators Who Flipped on PACT Act: 'What Are You F-king Talking About?!' (Video)|website= The Wrap|date= July 29, 2022|access-date= August 4, 2022}}{{cite web|url= https://www.foxnews.com/media/jon-stewart-bill-veterans-exposed-burn-pits|title= Jon Stewart says bill to help veterans exposed to burn pits '6 to 8 senators away' from passage|website= Fox News|date= May 27, 2022|access-date= August 4, 2022}}{{cite web|url= https://www.msnbc.com/morning-joe/watch/jon-stewart-gop-using-false-talking-point-on-veterans-health-bill-145048645682|title= Jon Stewart: GOP using false talking point on veterans health bill|website= August 4, 2022}} On July 28, 2022, Stewart held a press conference on Capitol Hill where he stated: {{blockquote|America's heroes, who fought in our wars, outside sweating their asses off…battling all kinds of ailments, while these motherfuckers sit in the air conditioning, walled off from any of it. They don't have to hear it, they don't have to see it. They don't have to understand that these are human beings…. I'm used to the lies, I'm used to the hypocrisy…. Senate is where accountability goes to die…. I'm used to all of it. But I am not used to cruelty.{{cite web|url= https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/08/pact-act-passes-after-jon-stewart-flames-republican-lawmakers|title= PACT Act Passes After Jon Stewart Flames Republican Lawmakers|website= Vanity Fair|date= August 3, 2022|access-date= August 4, 2022}}}}

On August 2, 2022, the PACT Act passed in bipartisan measure, 84 to 11.{{cite web|url= https://www.npr.org/2022/08/02/1115325176/pact-act-veterans-burn-pits-toxins-passes-senate|title= The Senate passes help for veterans exposed to toxins, after a reversal drew fury|website= NPR|date= August 2, 2022|access-date= August 4, 2022}} Stewart was praised for lending his voice and celebrity to the issue and is credited as being an essential actor in getting the bill passed.{{cite web|url= https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/aug/03/senate-passes-pact-act-veterans-toxins-burn-pits|title= Jon Stewart celebrates after Senate passes bill to assist veterans exposed to toxins|website= The Guardian|date= August 3, 2022|access-date= August 4, 2022}}{{cite web|url= https://www.newsweek.com/rand-paul-ripped-jon-stewart-praised-veterans-bill-passes-senate-1730266|title= Jon Stewart Praised as Veterans Bill Passes Senate|website= Newsweek|date= August 2, 2022|access-date= August 4, 2022}} Stewart stated after the bill's passing, that while it "feels good", it "shouldn't have been this hard".{{cite web|url= https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/veterans-started-camping-capitol-steps-gop-blocks-burn-pit-bill-rcna40981|title= Veterans have been camping out on the Capitol steps after GOP blocks burn pit bill|website= NBC News|date= August 2, 2022|access-date= August 4, 2022}} On August 10, the act was signed by President Joe Biden at a ceremony in the White House, where he praised Stewart for his commitment on this issue saying in part, "What you've done Jon, matters...It really, really matters. To refuse to let anybody forget, refuse to let them forget. And we owe you big, man. We owe you big."{{cite web|url= https://news.yahoo.com/biden-praises-jon-stewart-advocacy-153506827.html|title= Biden praises Jon Stewart's advocacy for veterans|website= Yahoo News|date= August 10, 2022|access-date= August 10, 2022}}

Stewart has criticized Israel for its military and political conduct in the Palestinian territories.{{Cite news |date=April 9, 2024 |title=Jon Stewart on US support of Israel: 'America knows this is wrong' |url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2024/apr/09/jon-stewart-israel |access-date=June 23, 2024 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}} In 2023, Stewart, alongside other media figures, signed the Artists4Ceasefire open letter urging American president Joe Biden to call for a ceasefire in the ongoing Gaza war.{{cite news|title=Joaquin Phoenix, Cate Blanchett and More Stars Demand Joe Biden Call for Israel-Gaza Ceasefire: 'Compassion Must Prevail' |url=https://variety.com/2023/biz/news/hollywood-demands-gaza-israel-ceasefire-joaquin-phoenix-cate-blanchett-1235763646/|work=Variety |date=October 20, 2023 |access-date=October 25, 2023 |archive-date=October 20, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231020203649/https://variety.com/2023/biz/news/hollywood-demands-gaza-israel-ceasefire-joaquin-phoenix-cate-blanchett-1235763646/}}{{cite news|title=Artists Call for Ceasefire Now|url=https://www.artists4ceasefire.org/|work=Artists4Ceasefire|date=October 20, 2023 |access-date=October 25, 2023|archive-date=October 20, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231020223525/https://www.artists4ceasefire.org/ }}

In April 2024, Stewart claimed that Apple restricted him from interviewing Lina Khan, the Chair of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), on his podcast. This incident follows the U.S. Department of Justice lawsuit against Apple for alleged anti-competitive practices in the smartphone market. The lawsuit highlights potential harm to free speech due to Apple's dominance. Stewart's comments raise concerns about Apple's influence over content creation beyond its control of the mobile device market.{{cite news |last=Fischer |first=Sara |url=https://www.axios.com/2024/04/02/jon-stewart-apple-ftc-chair-interview |title=Jon Stewart claims Apple wouldn't let him interview FTC chair on his podcast |work=Axios |date=April 2, 2024 |accessdate=April 2, 2024 }}

Stewart is irreligious, but of Jewish heritage.{{cite news |last=Berrin |first=Danielle |title=Jon Stewart's version of Judaism |url=http://www.jewishjournal.com/hollywoodjew/item/jon_stewarts_version_of_judaism_20101015 |access-date=November 7, 2013 |newspaper=JewishJournal |date=October 15, 2010 |archive-date=December 16, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131216170906/http://www.jewishjournal.com/hollywoodjew/item/jon_stewarts_version_of_judaism_20101015 |url-status=live}}

A production assistant on Wishful Thinking arranged a 1995 blind date between Stewart and Tracey Lynn McShane.{{cite news |url=http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0203/22/lkl.00.html |title=Interview With Jon Stewart |publisher=CNN |access-date=October 30, 2008 |date=February 7, 2001 |archive-date=December 6, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081206082223/http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0203/22/lkl.00.html |url-status=live}}{{cite video |url=http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=115735&title=beau-bridges&tag=%20Earth%20Day&itemId=109947&to=7 |title=Beau Bridges |work=The Daily Show |date=April 23, 2002 |time=4 minutes, 50 seconds |access-date=July 18, 2008}} Stewart proposed to her through a personalized crossword puzzle created with the help of Will Shortz, crossword editor at The New York Times.{{cite web |url=http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0616/p15s01-almo.html |title=Play on words |last=Steve |first=Irene |date=June 16, 2006 |access-date=February 17, 2012 |work=The Christian Science Monitor |archive-date=February 20, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120220030246/http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0616/p15s01-almo.html |url-status=live}}{{cite magazine |url=https://www.wired.com/magazine/2012/01/dr-sudoku-prescribes-a-modest-proposal/ |title=Dr. Sudoku Presents: A Modest Proposal |last=Snyder |first=Thomas |magazine=Wired |date=January 9, 2012 |access-date=February 17, 2012 |archive-date=February 20, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120220123522/http://www.wired.com/magazine/2012/01/dr-sudoku-prescribes-a-modest-proposal |url-status=live}} Married in 2000,{{cite video |url=http://www.charlierose.com/shows/2001/8/15/1/an-hour-with-the-host-of-the-daily-show-jon-stewart |title=An hour with the host of 'The Daily Show' Jon Stewart |publisher=Charlie Rose |date=August 15, 2001 |time=51 minutes, 28 seconds |access-date=July 18, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130807090038/http://www.charlierose.com/shows/2001/8/15/1/an-hour-with-the-host-of-the-daily-show-jon-stewart |archive-date=August 7, 2013}} the two filed a joint name change application legally changing their surnames to "Stewart" on June 19, 2001. With the help of in vitro fertilization, the couple has two children.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/11/fashion/tracey-stewart-farm-sanctuary.html |title=Tracey Stewart's Animal Planet |first=Judith |last=Newman |newspaper=The New York Times |date=October 10, 2015 |access-date=February 9, 2017 |archive-date=February 22, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170222093645/https://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/11/fashion/tracey-stewart-farm-sanctuary.html |url-status=live}}{{cite magazine |last1=Baker |first1=KC |last2=Silverman |first2=Stephen M. |date=February 7, 2006 |title=A Baby Girl for Jon Stewart |magazine=People |url=https://people.com/celebrity/a-baby-girl-for-jon-stewart/ |access-date=November 27, 2020 |archive-date=November 26, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201126162555/https://people.com/celebrity/a-baby-girl-for-jon-stewart/ |url-status=live}} In 2015, he adopted a vegetarian diet for ethical reasons; his wife is a long-time vegan.{{cite magazine |last=Newman |first=Judith |title=Tracey Stewart's Animal Planet |magazine=New York |date=October 10, 2015 |url=http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/10/11/fashion/tracey-stewart-farm-sanctuary.html |author-link=Judith Newman |access-date=April 14, 2016 |archive-date=May 17, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160517060827/http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/10/11/fashion/tracey-stewart-farm-sanctuary.html |url-status=live}} Later, he became vegan as well.{{cite web |url=https://www.livekindly.com/jon-stewart-vegan-because-pigs-with-personality/ |title=Jon Stewart Is Vegan Because of Pigs With 'Personality' |last=Smith |first=Kat |website=LIVEKINDLY |date=January 22, 2020 |access-date=October 8, 2022}}

In 2013, Stewart and his wife bought a {{convert |12 |acre |adj=on}} farm in Middletown, New Jersey, called "Bufflehead Farm". The Stewarts operate it as a sanctuary for abused animals.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/25/nyregion/tracey-stewart-counts-her-sheep-and-more.html |title=Tracey Stewart Counts Her Sheep, and More |first=Tammy |last=La Gorce |work=The New York Times |date=October 23, 2015 |access-date=October 26, 2015 |archive-date=October 26, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151026072425/http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/25/nyregion/tracey-stewart-counts-her-sheep-and-more.html |url-status=live}} Four years later, they received approval to open a 45-acre (18 ha) animal sanctuary in Colts Neck, New Jersey, a home to animals saved from slaughterhouses and live markets.{{cite news |title=Jon and Tracey Stewart's animal sanctuary gets key approval |url=https://www.njherald.com/story/news/nation-world/2017/01/11/jon-tracey-stewart-s-animal/3156617007/ |access-date=July 23, 2024 |work=New Jersey Herald |agency=Associated Press |date=January 11, 2017}}

After leaving The Daily Show, Stewart took up playing the drums, saying it was partly to give his life the structure he no longer had without a daily late-night show to work on. He has been taking drum lessons from New Jersey–based drum teacher Andy Bova, a former member of the indie-rock band No Wine For Kittens.{{cite news |url=https://www.grammy.com/news/jon-stewart-plays-drums-benefit-suicide-prevention |title=Jon Stewart Plays Drums To Benefit Suicide Prevention |first=Renée |last=Fabian |work=Grammys |date=November 9, 2017 |access-date=October 26, 2023 }}

Stewart is a lifelong fan of the New York Mets and was in attendance when Johan Santana threw the first no-hitter in franchise history on June 1, 2012.{{cite web | title=Jon Stewart Witnesses Johan Santana's No-Hitter | website=MLB.com | date=2024-10-05 | url=https://www.mlb.com/news/jon-stewart-witnesses-johan-santanas-no-hitter/c-32789308 | access-date=2024-10-06}} Shortly before he left the Daily Show in 2015, a compilation played of Stewart's jokes about the team during his time on the show.{{cite web | title=The Mets are in first place and no one's more excited than Jon Stewart | website=MLB.com | date=2024-10-05 | url=https://www.mlb.com/cut4/jon-stewart-celebrates-mets-on-the-daily-show/c-141543330 | access-date=2024-10-06}} He is also a fan of the New York Knicks, New York Giants, and New York Rangers.

Stewart is a known fan of the musical group Beastie Boys. Following the death of member Adam "MCA" Yauch, Stewart dedicated his next Daily Show's Moment of Zen to the artist.{{Cite web |title= |url=https://www.tiktok.com/@beastieboys_tiktok/video/7229174779125763371}} Member Adam "Ad-Rock" Horowitz also later appeared on the show as a guest to promote his appearance in the A24 movie While We're Young.{{Cite web |title= The Daily Show - Adam Horovitz| website=YouTube | date=April 14, 2015 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZwmkBi4xIY}} Stewart narrates a chapter written by Michael "Mike D" Diamond in the audio version of their biographical Beastie Boys Book.

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Stewart and other members of The Daily Show have received three Peabody Awards for "Indecision 2000" and "Indecision 2004",[http://www.Peabody awards.com/award-profile/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-indecision-2004 64th Annual Peabody Awards] {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130717230713/http://peabody/ |date=July 17, 2013}}, May 2005. covering the 2000 presidential election and the 2004 presidential election, respectively. He received his third Peabody in 2016 for his tenure at The Daily Show.[http://www.peabodyawards.com/stories/story/2015-individual-and-institutional-honorees 2015 Individual and Institutional Honorees"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160415135926/http://www.peabodyawards.com/stories/story/2015-individual-and-institutional-honorees |date=April 15, 2016}}, from PeabodyAwards.com (accessed April 18, 2016)

The Daily Show received the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Variety, Music, or Comedy Program in 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2009, 2011, 2012, and 2015 and Outstanding Variety, Music, or Comedy Series for 10 consecutive years from 2003 to 2012. In 2013, the award for both categories instead went to The Daily Show spin-off The Colbert Report. In 2015, The Daily Show resurfaced, winning both categories for one last time for Stewart's swan song as host. Stewart won the Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album in 2005 for his recording, America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction.

In the December 2003 New Year's edition of Newsweek, Stewart was named the "Who's Next?" person for 2004, with the magazine predicting that he would emerge as an absolute sensation in that year. (The magazine said they had been correct at the end of that year.){{cite web|url= https://www.newsweek.com/editors-desk-123485|title= THE EDITOR'S DESK|website= Newsweek|date= December 26, 2004|access-date= June 23, 2021|archive-date= June 24, 2021|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210624203711/https://www.newsweek.com/editors-desk-123485|url-status= live}} Stewart was named among the 2005 Time 100, an annual list of 100 of the most influential people of the year by Time magazine.{{cite magazine |last=Brokaw |first=Tom |author-link=Tom Brokaw |title=Jon Stewart |magazine=Time |date=September 27, 2004 |url=http://www.time.com/time/subscriber/2005/time100/artists/100stewart.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100918163211/http://www.time.com/time/subscriber/2005/time100/artists/100stewart.html |access-date=July 26, 2006|url-status=dead |archive-date=September 18, 2010}}

In 2004, Stewart spoke at the commencement ceremonies at his alma mater, William & Mary, and received an honorary Doctor of Arts degree.{{cite web |last=Stewart |first=Jon |title=Jon Stewart's ('84) Commencement Address |publisher=College of William and Mary |date=May 20, 2004 |url=http://web.wm.edu/news/archive/index.php?id=3650 |access-date=October 8, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081017200429/http://web.wm.edu/news/archive/index.php?id=3650 |archive-date=October 17, 2008}} Stewart was the Class Day keynote speaker at Princeton University in 2004,{{cite web |url=http://www.princeton.edu/pr/pwb/04/0322/7b.shtml |title=Jon Stewart to be Class Day speaker |publisher=Princeton Weekly Bulletin |date=March 22, 2004 |access-date=November 21, 2008 |archive-date=December 9, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081209075422/http://www.princeton.edu/pr/pwb/04/0322/7b.shtml |url-status=live}} and the 2008 Sacerdote Great Names speaker at Hamilton College. Stewart and The Daily Show received the 2005 National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) George Orwell Award for Distinguished Contribution to Honesty and Clarity in Public Language.{{citation needed |date=June 2019}} Stewart was presented an Honorary All-America Award by the National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA) in 2006.{{cite web |url=http://www.nscaa.com/articles/2006032908203424.php |title=Jon Stewart Named NSCAA Honorary All-America |publisher=NSCAA |access-date=April 19, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111011212844/http://nscaa.com/articles/2006032908203424.php |archive-date=October 11, 2011 |url-status=dead}} On April 21, 2009, President of Liberia Ellen Johnson Sirleaf made Stewart a chief.{{cite web |url=http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/tue-april-21-2009/ellen-johnson-sirleaf |title=Ellen Johnson Sirleaf – The Daily Show with Jon Stewart – 4/21/2009 – Video Clip | Comedy Central |publisher=thedailyshow.com |date=April 21, 2009 |access-date=September 17, 2010 |archive-date=November 12, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111112130652/http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/tue-april-21-2009/ellen-johnson-sirleaf |url-status=live}} On October 26, 2010, Stewart was named the Most Influential Man of 2010 by AskMen.Lies, Elaine (October 26, 2010) [https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE69P2NM20101026 "TV host Jon Stewart named most influential man of 2010"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211015083025/https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE69P2NM20101026 |date=October 15, 2021}}, Reuters. Retrieved October 26, 2010

For his advocacy on behalf of 9/11 victims and families, Stewart was one of eighteen individuals and organizations awarded the Bronze Medallion on December 16, 2019. The Bronze Medallion is the highest award conferred upon civilians by New York City.{{cite web |title=The City of New York Honors the Advocates of a Permanently-Funded Victim Compensation Fund |url=https://www1.nyc.gov/office-of-the-mayor/news/618-19/the-city-new-york-honors-advocates-permanently-funded-victim-compensation-fund#/0 |website=nyc.gov |publisher=The City of New York |access-date=September 23, 2020 |date=December 16, 2019 |archive-date=October 29, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201029144918/https://www1.nyc.gov/office-of-the-mayor/news/618-19/the-city-new-york-honors-advocates-permanently-funded-victim-compensation-fund#/0 |url-status=live}} On April 24, 2022, Stewart was awarded the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., for his lifelong contribution to the world of comedy.{{Cite web |title=The Mark Twain Prize for American Humor April 24, 2022 6:30 p.m. Cocktails, River Plaza8 p.m. Performance, Concert Hall10 p.m. Post-Performance Celebration, The REACH {{!}} Kennedy Center |url=https://www.kennedy-center.org/whats-on/mtp/ |access-date=April 27, 2022 |website=The Kennedy Center |language=en}}

• Naked Pictures of Famous People (Rob Weisbach Books, 1998). {{ISBN |0-688-17162-1}}.
• America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction (Warner Books, September 2004). {{ISBN |0-446-53268-1}}.
• Earth (The Book): A Visitor's Guide to the Human Race (Grand Central Publishing, 2010). {{ISBN |978-0-446-57922-3}}.

• New Yorkers in journalism

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• David Marchese, [https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/06/15/magazine/jon-stewart-interview.html "Jon Stewart Is Back to Weigh In"], The New York Times Magazine, June 15, 2020.
• Lisa Rogak, Angry Optimist: The Life and Times of Jon Stewart. New York: Saint Martin's Griffin, 2014. {{ISBN |978-1-250-08047-9}}.
• Bruce Watson, Jon Stewart: Beyond the Moments of Zen. New Word City, 2014.

• [http://www.thedailyshow.com/news-team/jon-stewart The Daily Show profile]
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Category:People from Lawrence Township, Mercer County, New Jersey

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Category:Primetime Emmy Award winners

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Category:Screenwriters from New York City

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Category:Television producers from New York City

Category:William & Mary Tribe men's soccer players

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Category:American secular Jews