Jon Stewart has mentioned he’s not going wherever, and he’s making an attempt to place that in writing.
The comic, whose contract to host The Every day Present is up in December, mentioned “we’re engaged on staying” throughout a dialog with New Yorker editor David Remnick at Sunday’s New Yorker Pageant, when Remnick requested if the Comedy Central host was going to “signal one other” contract.
Past that, when requested by Remnick if he does certainly wish to keep on the helm of the Comedy Central late evening present he left in 2015 and returned to in early 2024, internet hosting on Mondays, Stewart agreed. If it’s as much as him, he needs to remain.
It was roughly a 12 months in the past when Stewart introduced he was staying on at The Every day Present via December 2025, however since then Donald Trump has returned to the White Home and Paramount has merged with David Ellison’s Skydance.
Stewart even referred to Paramount Skydance CEO Ellison, the son of Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison, as his “new boss.”
In current months, Stewart’s Paramount colleague and former Every day Present co-worker Stephen Colbert introduced that CBS’ The Late Present can be ending, and ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel had his present suspended. CBS, which like Comedy Central is owned by Paramount, introduced in July that Colbert’s The Late Present would come to an finish in Could 2026. Although the community claimed it was “purely a monetary choice,” the transfer got here simply days after Colbert criticized Paramount for a $16 million settlement with Trump in a lawsuit he had filed over the enhancing of a 60 Minutes interview along with his 2024 Democratic challenger Kamala Harris. ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Reside! was suspended for lower than per week after feedback Kimmel made in a monologue about conservative activist Charlie Kirk’s murderer went viral, FCC commissioner Brendan Carr threatened ABC’s affiliate licenses over the host’s remarks and at the very least two affiliate teams, Nexstar and Sinclair, deliberate to pre-empt Kimmel’s present.
Stewart too has criticized the 60 Minutes settlement and urged that the Late Present cancellation was related to Colbert’s vital feedback concerning the lawsuit and President Trump. And he skewered the Kimmel suspension with a satirical, “administration-compliant” version of The Every day Present.
“The truth that CBS didn’t attempt to save their No. 1 rated late evening franchise that’s been on the air for over three a long time is a part of what’s making all people marvel: Was this ‘purely monetary’? Or possibly it’s the trail of least resistance to your $8 billion merger to kill a present that rankled a fragile and vengeful president who’s so insecure that he’s struggling terribly from a case of persistent penis insufficiency,” Stewart mentioned on The Every day Present days after information broke of The Late Present cancellation.
He added, “If you happen to’re making an attempt to determine why Stephen’s present is ending, I don’t suppose the reply could be present in some smoking gun e mail or cellphone name from Trump to CBS executives or in CBS QuickBooks spreadsheets on the monetary well being of late evening. I believe the reply is within the concern and pre-compliance that’s gripping all of America’s establishments at this very second, establishments which have chosen to not combat the vengeful and vindictive actions of our … commander-in-chief. To these companies and advertisers and universities and regulation corporations, all of them, if you happen to nonetheless suppose that bending the knee to Trump will prevent, I’ve one factor to say [breaking into song]: I do know you’re scared, I do know you’re weary, I do know your plans don’t embody me, however these are troubled instances, so sack the fuck up!”
And he mentioned on the time of his personal late evening future: “I’m not going wherever. I believe.”
Paramount Skydance has additionally made modifications at CBS Information. The conglomerate has employed the previous CEO of the conservative-leaning Hudson Institute, Kenneth Weinstein, as CBS Information’ ombudsman and contrarian journalist Bari Weiss because the editor-in-chief of CBS Information, with Paramount buying her The Free Press.
Extra to return.