Jon announces the start date of his new career as non-host of The Daily Show! http://t.co/mTuVUng7F7
— The Daily Show (@TheDailyShow) April 21, 2015One of Stewart’s promises in the video is that “I will be wearing a suit. I will more likely be showered.” He quickly amends, after not receiving just the reaction he’d hoped.It’s also worth mentioning that the tickets for the final show will be raffled off, fly in the winners and put them up. All profit from the fundraising is already agreed to go to Night of Too Many Stars, a non-profit organization.
I will be watching this final episode dressed all in black with tears in my eyes and half in the bag.
It's the least I can do in honor of the man whose comedic light guided us safely through the Bush years.
It's also the 70th anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing.
ReplyDeleteYeah, this sucks. I can't stand the thought of having to go into another presidential election cycle without Jon Stewart AND Stephen Colbert. Crap. Who will we turn to, to get the facts and who will filter out the bullshit coming from the right-wing nutcases, aka Fox News??? We're doomed.
ReplyDeleteIm right there with ya 5:15. All we have left is the Gryphen.
Delete"I will be watching this final episode dressed all in black with tears in my eyes and half in the bag."
ReplyDeleteGryphen, a cruel person would ask how that night will differ from most any other night at Chez Gryphon but I am not a cruel person and refuse to ask. Please ignore this entire comment.
Better yet, I won't even hit Publish and that way no one will even s....
You will be hugging your teddy bear as well, right?
ReplyDeleteSobbing right along with you, Gryph. I keep thinking he might take Chuck Toad's job. Oh, how a girl can dream. If ever we needed a mainstream, trusted voice to call out these outlandish frauds and schemes perpetrated and funded by the Kochtopus, Murdoch, Adelson and the assorted other power mad billionaire pay-to-play boys. Worse, they bring us the likes of a Palin, Cruz, Paul, Paul, Beck, Hannity to hard- sell their dreams of oligarchy.
ReplyDeleteIn my many years I've never seen such a stranglehold on our political, civil and social systems. There were always crooks and liars but can't recall them ever been so blatant nor so evil and destructive. Occasionally a few of them were exposed and ran out of town. But now? The madness begets more madness and we can no longer say 'that's the craziest thing I've ever heard'. Cause tomorrow.
What saddens me even more is the number of our fellow citizens who have bought into their madness. There are days when I now think the sky actually might be falling.
It's the truth, Jon Stewart is the single reason I was able to endure the Bush years. I am not sure how I will be able to deal with his leaving, this is going to be really tough. It's such a part of my routine, no matter what happened during the day I can look forward to 11:00 and Jon will make me laugh. The only certain thing: it will never be the same without him. I wonder if he will come to regret his decision. He seems to have such fun doing it. He says he's depressed watching what's going on in the world. Well, guess what? All the crap is still going to go on but he's giving up his chance to rail against it. He'll be like the rest of us, frustrated as hell with no voice. Only now we'll have no one speaking for us. I admit it, I'm a little bitter. Especially during an election year.
ReplyDeleteHey wait a minute! Jon's writing team isn't leaving, and I'm betting that the new host, Trevor Noah, will win over everyone (or almost everyone) within 6 months. I shall really, really miss Jon Stewart, but I look for even greater things from him.
ReplyDeleteI read that his team is leaving, and the new guy is bringing a whole new team with him. Don't know if that's true or not.
DeleteI don't think a lot of politically aware people would have made it through the Bush regime sanely intact without Jon. He educated a whole lot of people that usually don't pay attention and did it with satire and humor. It was a beacon of light and hope that we would all survive it together.
ReplyDeleteI think I know when it struck home with him that he needed to quit, it was when he was interviewing the actress who played the mother in Boyhood, the movie that spanned 12 years. I think it was Roseanna Arquette, I probably have the name wrong, but the point is that she wanted the movie to go on forever but it had to end sometime. I remember Jon saying that he had a family and he heard that they were nice people. And then it shifted for him. His kids are growing up, he is working all the time and has to focus on what the crazy Faux news is spewing out all the time and he is missing being a normal father and husband. Life is too short.
Not sure if that is true or not but it seemed like the whole dynamic changed for him after that night. He probably has asked himself a million times why he keeps on and while he knows how deeply we appreciate him, he does deserve a break from it all and move onto whatever he wants at this point. Will I miss him? Oh hell yes!. But I understand. He will go on and I am pretty confident that he will do more good works.
Sorry, but I don't have any sympathy for Stewart because he has a job that pays him 30 million a year. Many comedians have to be on the road to make a living. Stewart tapes four days a week and gets to go home to his family every night after work. My husband traveled for years with his job, and he sure didn't make 30 million bucks. So it depends on the definition of "working all the time". Peronsally, I think his ego is a little bruised that Steve Carrell was nominated for an Oscar this year and Colbert is taking over for Letterman and he's thinking, "here I am in the same job for 17 years". I don't think he knows how good he has it.
DeleteColbert already gone.
ReplyDeleteLetterman gone in May.
Jon gone in August.
Colbert not starting until end of September.
What am I gonna do.
I wonder how much those tickets are going to go for? Probably way out of my price range. I'll be retired. I could go. If only I had the money.
Man, I would so want to be there. Or at any show between now and then, really.
I wish he'd so some HBO specials once in awhile. He feels like a family member or close friend whose leaving. When the news became too much to bear, I always looked to him to find something to smile about. I'm sure those tickets must be uber expensive, but no one can fill his shoes.
ReplyDeleteI'll be in my pj's watching and remembering the good times. I guess nothing good lasts forever, but he was one I never tired of watching. Just his facial expressions had me rolling.