After returning to his place because the host of Comedy Central’s The Each day Present this 12 months, Jon Stewart has signed an extension to maintain him on the present by 2025.
Stewart will proceed his internet hosting duties once-per-week (largely Monday nights), and he’ll stay as a full-time government producer of the Comedy Central late night time program. In the meantime, Each day Present correspondents Ronny Chieng, Jordan Klepper, Michael Kosta, and Desi Lydic will proceed rotate internet hosting roles on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
The information arrives weeks earlier than the 2024 Presidential Election — on which Stewart will host a particular hour-long episode — and the contract extension means Stewart might be main The Each day Present by the following president’s first 12 months in workplace.
“I’ve actually loved being again working with the unimaginable staff at The Each day Present and Comedy Central. I used to be actually hoping they’d enable me to do each different Monday, however I’ll simply should suck it up,” Stewart mentioned in an announcement. Chris McCarthy, Paramount World Co-CEO and president/CEO of Showtime and MTV Leisure Studios, expressed aid to have Stewart signed on for another 12 months. “His capacity to chop by the noise and ship clear-eyed insights is strictly what we’d like, which is why we’re thrilled to have him main The Each day Present for one more 12 months,” McCarthy mentioned.
Stewart’s second tenure as Each day Present host has been a profitable one for the comic and political commentator, with The Hollywood Reporter noting that the present’s rankings improved considerably after Stewart’s shock return. In the meantime, Stewart launched a Each day Present companion podcast earlier this 12 months titled The Weekly Present with Jon Stewart.
In different Each day Present information, the present not too long ago had Insane Clown Posse’s Violent J as a visitor, and he formally endorsed Kamala Harris for President.