The Daily Show

The Daily Show is a satirical news programme on Comedy Central. Its own feed describes it as “Jon Stewart and The Daily Show News Team cover[ing] today’s biggest headlines,” and gives its slot as weeknights at 11/10c on Comedy Central, with streaming on Paramount+.

Format

Episodes combine a desk monologue with correspondent field pieces and a guest interview. Comedy Central’s own programme page shows the hosting duties rotating across the week among Jon Stewart, Jordan Klepper, Desi Lydic and Michael Kosta, and lists Jordan Klepper Fingers the Pulse specials as an associated strand. Full episodes and extended interviews are published as audio in the Ears Edition feed.

Sourcing Note

Removed as unsourceable: the founded: 1996 value; the reach line “400,000+ nightly viewers, millions online”; the claim that under Jon Stewart “many young Americans cit[ed] it as their primary news source”; the assertion that the show “influenced real political outcomes, from the 9/11 first responders bill to challenging media narratives during the Iraq War”; the talent-pipeline list naming Stephen Colbert, John Oliver and Samantha Bee; the claim that it “mastered viral video distribution”; and the statement that it “struggled to maintain relevance post-Stewart.”

The 9/11 first-responders claim is the one most worth rebuilding. Congressional records for the James Zadroga Act and its 2015 and 2019 reauthorizations exist and are citable; the sentence should be restored only against them, and only stating what they show.

The former-host connection to Jon Stewart, described as covering the show’s “most influential period 1999-2015,” has been replaced with a plain hosted-by edge: Stewart hosts the programme now, and the run dates were unsourced.