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Everyone is jumping ship since Jon announced he was leaving. I wonder how much it has to do with Jon leaving or the fact that they picked someone who had only been on the show about 2 times to take his place over all the people who had been there 5-10 years.

In this case @Grimm I really do think race was the predominant factor. Not saying the choice was wrong, but Samantha was by far the more person eligible in my opinion. Still, while America doubts women can be funny, she proved herself time and again...

Sam and Jason have a new show of their own starting soon. This was announced before Jon's replacement was named, which means it must have been planned several months before Jon even made the subject public. This also explains why at least Jason (don't know about Sam) went on the record fairly early saying he was not interested in taking over TDS.

This also raises the issue that some people may want to host 'their' show, but not TDS, a show with a very specific tone/theme, and quite time-consuming at that. People only think of the prestige, but filling in after a guy with a big rep and who was is own producer might not be the most comfortable of things. Especially if like Jon you end up with the sum total of 1 side project in 16 years.

That doesn't mean the TDS staff may not have been talking backstage early on (I can imagine them seeing Colbert, then Stewart walking away, or starting to talk about it, and some thinking to themselves that maybe it's time for a change), but they probably decided what to do on their own, way before any decision for TDS was definitive.