Jon Stewart leaves ‘The Daily Show’ on a career high

Show became the satirical prism through which many viewed the US political
process

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Jon Stewart laughs during a taping break while interviewing President
Barack Obama on the set of The Daily Show in 2012. Stewart, whose show
became a nightly home to sharp-edged political satire, has announced
that he would leave the show later this year. Photograph: Damon
Winter/The New York Times

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Jon Stewart laughs during a taping break while interviewing President
Barack Obama on the set of The Daily Show in 2012. Stewart, whose show
became a nightly home to sharp-edged political satire, has announced
that he would leave the show later this year. Photograph: Damon
Winter/The New York Times

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say that it “will endure for years to come.”

In becoming America’s satirist in chief, Stewart imbued the program
with a personal sense of justice, even indignation. For a segment of
the audience that had lost its faith in broadcast and print news

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Stewart (52) became the host of The Daily Show in 1999, entering with
the identity of a hard-working standup, if not necessarily an astute
political commentator. A decade and a half later, his satirical
sensibility helped turn The Daily Show, where he also serves as an
executive producer, into an influential platform for news and media

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Daily Show correspondent under Stewart.

So did John Oliver, now the host of HBO’s news satire program Last Week
Tonight, and Larry Wilmore, who now hosts Comedy Central’s Nightly
Show, following The Daily Show.

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For a generation of television viewers, Stewart and his “Indecision”
coverage of presidential and congressional elections became the
satirical prism through which they viewed the American political
process.