Jon Stewart Has a New Talk Show, but He Plans to do More Listening
The New York Times
“The Problem With Jon Stewart” will examine social issues through the personal stories of those most affected. “It feels more cathartic than just yelling at the screen,” he said.
As he took his seat behind a long anchor’s table in a Midtown Manhattan studio and prepared to deliver a comedy monologue inveighing against the hypocrisies of our times, Jon Stewart told his audience how unusual the whole enterprise felt to him.
“I used to do this every day and now I’ve done it three times in the last six years,” he said. “But it’s still delightful to see your faces. Look at you all, you’re clearly taking care of yourselves.”
On a mid-September evening, he was about to record one of the earliest episodes of his new Apple TV+ series, “The Problem With Jon Stewart,” which makes its debut on Thursday. This topical comedy show is Stewart’s return to television after a six-year hiatus — his first such project after stepping down from his 16-year run as host of “The Daily Show,” the influential, headline-driven news satire on Comedy Central.
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