00:00that Jon Stewart cannot leave the show.
00:04Jon Stewart is making his Daily Show return.
00:08After a year-long search for Trevor Noah's replacement,
00:11the longtime host and Noah predecessor
00:13has agreed to return to host through the 2024 election.
00:16The Comedy Central series will have Stewart back on Mondays.
00:20The show will then rely on its newsroom of correspondents,
00:22such as Jordan Klepper and Ronnie Chang, among others,
00:25to lead the show for the remainder of the week,
00:27with this plan moving forward through the presidential election.
00:30Stewart, who spends 16 years at the show, many of them Emmy-winning,
00:34will be heavily involved as an executive producer on the other nights as well.
00:38The move comes after Stewart prematurely exited his Apple TV Plus show The Problem,
00:43following creative differences between the streamer and host
00:45over potential topics and guests.
00:48Stewart is also expected to be actively involved in shaping new talent for the show,
00:52as he had done for many years before.
00:54In fact, he's largely responsible for launching the careers of Stephen Colbert,
00:58John Oliver, Michael Che, and Samantha Bee, among others.
01:02Plans for a permanent host for the Daily Show have been up in the air
01:05since Noah announced abruptly in late September of 2022
01:08that he'd be exiting the series,
01:10and has been cycling through celebrity guest hosts since January of 2023,
01:15including Cal Penn, Leslie Jones, Chelsea Handler,
01:18Hasan Minhaj, and Sarah Silverman.
01:20When asked about the prolonged process to find a permanent replacement,
01:23Noah himself has noted,
01:25I think the strike negatively affected the show, and so I get it.
01:28I also don't think it's an easy slot to fill.
01:31For more on this story, head to the article on THR.com.
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