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The only worthy host of the show. He was able to make a comedy show compete with shows on so-called news channels.
I wonder why it looks like he was the last person considered for the show, is it because he cared about issues that he talked about and made young people care?
He was doing his own thing until Apple killed his show over fears that he would talk about China.
There's ten gallons of that shit on YouTube already.
Most content on YouTube doesn't feature the comedy stylings of Jon Stewart
Quite a few professional comedians have YouTube content. Some of them even do bits on China
Dave Chappelle is not Jon Stewart.
Doing Great Man Theory, but for comedians.
It’s not quite that simple. Stewart wanted to do a show critical of China, Apple said, no, and Stewart walked. Since this was during the negotiations for his next season of his show, they mutually agreed not to renew for the next season.
Yes, this is shitty of Apple to put a limit on him like this, but it wasn’t so hostile as it might seem. 
You made it sound pretty simple.
lol, i elaborated.
I hope it’s his first episode back.
I think it would be great if he could have Chris Chappell from China Uncensored on Youtube (https://youtube.com/@ChinaUncensored) as a guest on that episode when it happens.
Kilborn wasn't that bad.
It was OK, but it was a really different show than what Jon Stewart ended up doing with it. It was much more like 1990s-era SNL‘s Weekend Update. 
He was the last person considered because 1) he already hosted for 16 years and quit so they probably assumed he didn’t want to go back to it, and 2) when they started considering people, Stewart was under contract with a competing show on AppleTV+ (The Problem w/ Jon Stewart), but that show was recently cancelled. Also, The Problem only airs once a week, so imagine Stewart told CC that he’d only come back to do one show weekly rather than the four that he used to do.
Because he retired from the show in 2015. Hence why he's only coming back part time. It was his choice to leave the first time, so that's probably why he was the last one to reach out to.
The coincidental timing with his contract non-renewal with Apple is also quite… serendipitous, no?
Stewart is at the point in his career where he doesn’t want to commit to something more than a weekly show and executive producership. He’s also digging the podcasting space. This works out for everyone. 
He likely wasn’t the last person considered. He was the hardest person to get.
He had another show up until recent, and I was famously burnt out from the Daily Show. They Likely need to wait until he was free and make him an offer that he couldn’t resist.
It's funny. I saw the potential of the daily show early on. Was a fan from the first episode.
When they let Craig Kilborne go, replaced him with no name comedian Jon Stuart, and ended five questions, I was so angry I wrote to Comedy Central and said the show would never be funny again. Boy was I wrong.