Tag: The Daily Show with Jon Stewart

Jon Stewart teased his Daily Show return with a perfect tweet about hitting the transfer portal

“I have decided to enter the transfer portal for my last year of eligibility.”

After more than a year of searching, The Daily Show finally has a replacement for former host Trevor Noah.

Well, kinda.

News broke Wednesday that former host Jon Stewart would be returning to the show. For Mondays and that’s it. Still, it was a relevation from a late night institution and one of the few viable MTV Entertainment Group offerings besides “18 hours of Ridiculousness reruns.” Stewart hosted the show from 1999 to 2015, taking it from twee Weekend Update riff under Craig Kilborn to one of the most popular late night institutions in America.

He left in August 2015 and had a few ventures in the meantime; a Summerslam appearance here, a canceled Apple TV show there. Despite this, he remained best known for his social commentary behind the desk at Comedy Central.

And since Stewart is a known sports geek, he announced his return to The Daily Show in familiar fashion to anyone who watches too much college football.

Folks got pretty excited about this. Or mad. Or too excited. Anyway, stick around for the tweets that hopefully didn’t make too many people angry. Or maybe they did, because (gestures dismissively, sighs).