The “shitty establishment” Stewart is referencing seems to be Paramount as a whole, though he doesn’t spare Comedy Central either. “I’d like to believe that without The Daily Show… I don’t know. Comedy Central is kind of like muzak at this point,

I understand what he’s doing,” Jon Stewart said of Trump’s decision to start ranting and raving about what he has deemed the Jeffrey Epstein “hoax.” Stewart shared his theory on a new episode of his Weekly Show podcast that Trump’s trying to cloud to legitimacy of the Epstein files because he knows he would likely be implicated by their release.

Jon Stewart says he is not worried about Skydance potentially canceling "The Daily Show," saying "we'll land on our feet."

The Daily Show ’s Jon Stewart, who recently called Paramount Global’s settlement with President Donald Trump “shameful”, has weighed in on the future of the late-night show.

Stewart and Colbert are stalwarts of the television world. Stewart is the long-running host of The Daily Show on Comedy Central, which he hosted from 1999 to 2015. He hosted The Problem with Jon Stewart on Apple TV+ from 2021 to 2023 and returned part time to The Daily Show in 2024.

Show’s Jon Stewart has flamed his parent company Paramount Global’s decision to settle President Donald Trump’s $20 billion lawsuit—and now he’s well aware that his job might be on the line. Stewart said on Thursday’s The Weekly Show,

“Surprisingly, MAGA world, for the first time in memory, isn’t just slavishly acquiescing to Trump’s reality distortion field,” he said, and played clips of figures on the right trashing the president after the Justice Department said last week that the long-rumored Epstein client list doesn’t exist.

Once again, Jon Stewart had a “tremendous show planned for you - well-designed, articulate,” but the tidal wave of current events would not let that slide. It was “a truly illuminating dive into the overlooked role of the commodities markets in trade deficit accounting,