I know that Jon himself doesn't really think of himself or his show as competing with the "real news".

...I agree, he hasn't competed with the real news. He and his show were way better than the "real" news. To such an extent that to say they were in "competition" is laughable.

The "real" news blathers on about drivel that corporate interests and juggernauts like Murdoch and Trump want us to hear about. And when it isn't doing that, it trying to shovel and spin enough horseshit to fill a 24-hour "news cycle". Garbage in, garbage out.

In trying to be a satire or parody of the "real" news, Jon Stewart has actually helmed a show that really informs, yet does it with wit, logic, and some amazingly real insight.

So, thanks for being my primary source of "news", be it fake or real, for the past 10+ years Jon. Enjoy your retirement or whatever comes next -- nobody deserves it more than you.

NOOOooo :'(

Read about it this morning. Gutted, but at least John Oliver is still here to carry on the tradition

I'm wondering of John Oliver would have left for HBO had he known that this golden opportunity would have been there for his taking just one year later.

I guess Oliver is just happy at HBO. Because its his own thing. He is about to make a name for himself.

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I have many feels.

Fox.

He's a funny guy. Too bad he was shilling for Obama all these years.

Really? He's been "Shilling for Obama" all 17 years he's been on the show? Now THAT'S impressive!
You don't watch the show, or you would know he makes fun of Obama just as willingly and scathingly as he makes fun of Fox, he just has less to make fun of with Obama.

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Oh please, he's AT LEAST a guinea...

The better joke was...

Brian Williams needs a job, and there's an opening at Comedy Central, and Brian does have experience delivering fake news!

Jon isn't looking to be on TV daily anymore, or he would not be leaving by choice. Don't expect to see him as a regular TV host anywhere anytime soon. I'm guessing another movie might be in his future though.

I didn't say 'for 17 years'. I said 'for all these years', which are the years of Obama's administration. Before that he was shilling for whatever liberal pablum he spewed.

It is true that i didn't watch him, just an occasional clip, because while he is funny, he's also quite clueless. He has good intentions, like most liberals but he doesn't think things through.

Rarely does he see through the BS of statism.

And he has less to make fun of with Obama? Wow, you must be joking!

Well by all means... don't let your admitted ignorance in any way stop you from posting multiple times on the subject.

You guys and your infatuations. You know, the Daily Show was a good show BEFORE Jon Stewart. When Jon Stewart first took over the Daily Show I was sorta bummed.

Gen Xers and Millenials went through a period where they missed Craig Kilborn. Everything is an unending repeat of everything before it. Exploding head!!

Does anyone know if Jon Stewart has done Craig Kilborn's 5 Questions?

Kilborn did the show for three years. Jon has done it for 16-17 years. That's about half my life, whereas Kilborn's stint was a little blip. I think a lot of people are in the same boat. We may have liked Kilborn's version of the show (I did! But I was in Jr. High, so what the hell do I know) but it was never the fixture that Jon Stewart's version became.

I don't necessarily disagree with you. My opinions, while oft contrarian, are really just open ended processes without judgement or declaration. They are hardly even opinions, as I almost always simultaneously believe and hold dear multiple conflicting ideas about particular subjects. An enlightened doublethink as it were. Everything is a theory worth pondering. Thanks Socrates. Thanks for making me not know anything.

Now while tenure certainly holds clout, it can also blind us to the moments in time which were shorter but sweeter than any of the fine tuned complexities of empire. The Internet as we know it, with youtube and Facebook, for example, may be the fixture but I'll always think kindly upon those early 90s, when it was the awkward but mysterious world wide web.

So, cool, yay for fixtures, but I'm a founders man, not a member of the club after its maturity. The Thomas Paine -- Cool, the revolution is over, now fuck yo couch. Where's the next one?

Other examples where the fixture isn't necessarily the only method to decide value by: Van Halen's prolific career versus that first, highly exceptional, fast and heavy album. Or the short but sweet years Ronnie James Dio or Glenn Huges sang for Black Sabbath -- Ozzy is the fixture, but those short moments of time where something strange and magical was created with other diverse geniuses, prior to or after the bread winners, those are the moments of fascination.

I love Jon Stewart but this ain't no thang. My interest was already piqued and held years ago, before him. He's great though and far better than a single television show.

I hope they keep the show going... and that they get Charlie Brooker as the replacement.