January 11, 1999, 25 years ago to the day, was Jon Stewart’s first night hosting The Daily Show.
The comedian took over from Craig Kilborn, who had hosted the Comedy Central show from July 21, 1996. Stewart’s first guest was Michael J. Fox, promoting Spin City.
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart went on to win the Emmy for Outstanding Variety Series for ten consecutive years between 2003 and 2012, before losing to The Colbert Report, a show that he exec produced, for a couple of years, and then coming back to win in 2015 in his final season.
It’s a run that Last Week Tonight with John Oliver looked like it might replicate with seven wins in the category – then known as Outstanding Variety Talk Series – starting in 2016.
However, Oliver is now competing on Monday night at the primetime Emmys in a new category, Outstanding Scripted Variety Series, up against Saturday Night Live and A Black Lady Sketch Show,...
The comedian took over from Craig Kilborn, who had hosted the Comedy Central show from July 21, 1996. Stewart’s first guest was Michael J. Fox, promoting Spin City.
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart went on to win the Emmy for Outstanding Variety Series for ten consecutive years between 2003 and 2012, before losing to The Colbert Report, a show that he exec produced, for a couple of years, and then coming back to win in 2015 in his final season.
It’s a run that Last Week Tonight with John Oliver looked like it might replicate with seven wins in the category – then known as Outstanding Variety Talk Series – starting in 2016.
However, Oliver is now competing on Monday night at the primetime Emmys in a new category, Outstanding Scripted Variety Series, up against Saturday Night Live and A Black Lady Sketch Show,...
- 1/11/2024
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Trevor Noah surprised his studio audience on Thursday when he announced that his time as host of “The Daily Show” would soon come to an end. He did not give a specific date, but the comedian indicated that seven years was a good run, and it was time to move on.
“I’ve loved hosting this show. It’s been one of my greatest challenges. It’s been one of my greatest joys. I’ve loved trying to figure out how to make people laugh even when the stories are particularly shitty on the worst days,” he said.
The 38-year-old South African comic came to the United States in 2011 and secured a gig as a special “Daily Show” correspondent in late 2014. He was announced as Jon Stewart’s successor in March 2015. During Stewart’s time, from 1999 to 2015, the late-night chat show evolved into something that really never existed on American...
“I’ve loved hosting this show. It’s been one of my greatest challenges. It’s been one of my greatest joys. I’ve loved trying to figure out how to make people laugh even when the stories are particularly shitty on the worst days,” he said.
The 38-year-old South African comic came to the United States in 2011 and secured a gig as a special “Daily Show” correspondent in late 2014. He was announced as Jon Stewart’s successor in March 2015. During Stewart’s time, from 1999 to 2015, the late-night chat show evolved into something that really never existed on American...
- 9/30/2022
- by Jordan Hoffman
- Gold Derby
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Trevor Noah is leaving The Daily Show after seven years as host.
The comedian announced the news during Thursday’s episode of the Comedy Central late-night series. He debuted as host in Sept. 28, 2015, following the departure of Jon Stewart, who had previously made the show a go-to for water-cooler conversation and must-see moments with his biting take on political debate and current events.
“I realized after the seven years, my time is up, but in the most beautiful way,” Noah told the audience Thursday. “I’ve loved hosting this show. It’s been one of my greatest challenges. It’s been one of my greatest joys. I’ve loved trying to figure out how to make people laugh even when the stories are particularly shitty on the worst days.”
Noah, the youngest of the late night hosts at just 38, explained that returning to...
Trevor Noah is leaving The Daily Show after seven years as host.
The comedian announced the news during Thursday’s episode of the Comedy Central late-night series. He debuted as host in Sept. 28, 2015, following the departure of Jon Stewart, who had previously made the show a go-to for water-cooler conversation and must-see moments with his biting take on political debate and current events.
“I realized after the seven years, my time is up, but in the most beautiful way,” Noah told the audience Thursday. “I’ve loved hosting this show. It’s been one of my greatest challenges. It’s been one of my greatest joys. I’ve loved trying to figure out how to make people laugh even when the stories are particularly shitty on the worst days.”
Noah, the youngest of the late night hosts at just 38, explained that returning to...
- 9/30/2022
- by Ryan Gajewski and Mikey O'Connell
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The first episode of The Daily Show aired July 22, 1996, meaning the milestone 25th anniversary is just weeks away. Co-creators Madeleine Smithberg and Lizz Winstead will mark the anniversary on July 19 with a virtual benefit for the latter’s nonprofit Abortion Access Front that will feature the pair and some original correspondents dishing on their early experiences on the Comedy Central show.
Confirmed to attend are A. Whitney Brown, Beth Littleford and Brian Unger, with other surprise guests expected and a program that will also include a Q&a. “Back in the 1990s, cable was the Wild West....
Confirmed to attend are A. Whitney Brown, Beth Littleford and Brian Unger, with other surprise guests expected and a program that will also include a Q&a. “Back in the 1990s, cable was the Wild West....
- 6/17/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
The first episode of The Daily Show aired on July 22, 1996, meaning the milestone 25th anniversary is just weeks away. Co-creators Madeleine Smithberg and Lizz Winstead will mark the anniversary on July 19 with a virtual benefit for the latter’s nonprofit Abortion Access Front that will feature the pair and some original correspondents dishing on their early experiences on the Comedy Central show.
Confirmed to attend are A. Whitney Brown, Beth Littleford and Brian Unger with other surprise guests expected and a program that will also include a Q&a. “Back in the 1990s, cable was the Wild ...
Confirmed to attend are A. Whitney Brown, Beth Littleford and Brian Unger with other surprise guests expected and a program that will also include a Q&a. “Back in the 1990s, cable was the Wild ...
- 6/17/2021
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Every week, IndieWire asks a select handful of TV critics two questions and publishes the results on Tuesday.
This week’s question: What’s the best current, non-canceled show created by a woman or non-binary person?
Kaitlin Thomas (@thekaitling), TVGuide.com
If we’ve all said Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s “Fleabag,” I would not be surprised. The show’s second season is incredible. And that’s not just recency bias. Phoebe Waller-Bridge is one of the smartest and funniest people working in television and film today, and the new season reflects that. Let me tell you a quick story: I was late to Season 2 because of other work commitments, and I kept thinking everyone must be overselling the new season. I thought there was no way it was as good as everyone was saying it was because 1) I am a cynical person, and 2) when does that ever actually happen? When does...
This week’s question: What’s the best current, non-canceled show created by a woman or non-binary person?
Kaitlin Thomas (@thekaitling), TVGuide.com
If we’ve all said Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s “Fleabag,” I would not be surprised. The show’s second season is incredible. And that’s not just recency bias. Phoebe Waller-Bridge is one of the smartest and funniest people working in television and film today, and the new season reflects that. Let me tell you a quick story: I was late to Season 2 because of other work commitments, and I kept thinking everyone must be overselling the new season. I thought there was no way it was as good as everyone was saying it was because 1) I am a cynical person, and 2) when does that ever actually happen? When does...
- 6/4/2019
- by Hanh Nguyen
- Indiewire
Robin Thede remembers everything about the afternoon last October when she taped the first episode of her Bet late-night series “The Rundown With Robin Thede.”
Wearing a velvet-green suit and black pumps, she strode out onto the stage at CBS Broadcast Center on 57th Street in Manhattan with fierce determination to add the voice of an African-American woman to the late-night TV landscape.
“People kept asking me if I felt nervous or felt pressure,” Thede recalls. “I kept saying, ‘No, I’m ready.’ ”
As momentous as that first taping was for Thede, an equally important moment came months earlier at the “Rundown” production offices across the street from the stage, when her core team of writers and producers assembled for the first full day of work. Thede, a seasoned comedy scribe who was head writer for Comedy Central’s “The Nightly Show With Larry Wilmore,” looked around at a staff...
Wearing a velvet-green suit and black pumps, she strode out onto the stage at CBS Broadcast Center on 57th Street in Manhattan with fierce determination to add the voice of an African-American woman to the late-night TV landscape.
“People kept asking me if I felt nervous or felt pressure,” Thede recalls. “I kept saying, ‘No, I’m ready.’ ”
As momentous as that first taping was for Thede, an equally important moment came months earlier at the “Rundown” production offices across the street from the stage, when her core team of writers and producers assembled for the first full day of work. Thede, a seasoned comedy scribe who was head writer for Comedy Central’s “The Nightly Show With Larry Wilmore,” looked around at a staff...
- 4/10/2018
- by Cynthia Littleton
- Variety Film + TV
Alex Mahon, the CEO of British broadcaster Channel 4, has warned that producers need to innovate in the same way as tech giants such as Twitter and Netflix in order to come up with non-scripted formats that are “less repetitive”.
The former Shine Group boss used her keynote address at the Mip TV market in Cannes, to warn that it needs to use its schedule, particularly its late-night or daytime hours, to “open up risk”.
“Producers need to innovate in the same way as tech companies,” she said. “Technology platforms have changed consumer relationships. Twitter has changed the length of time of a video or text a consumer will get involved in. YouTube has changed the quality of production values people will accept. Netflix has change the emotional connection people have with content through bingeing,” she said.
Channel 4 has been one of the leading lights in the international formats with shows such as Gogglebox,...
The former Shine Group boss used her keynote address at the Mip TV market in Cannes, to warn that it needs to use its schedule, particularly its late-night or daytime hours, to “open up risk”.
“Producers need to innovate in the same way as tech companies,” she said. “Technology platforms have changed consumer relationships. Twitter has changed the length of time of a video or text a consumer will get involved in. YouTube has changed the quality of production values people will accept. Netflix has change the emotional connection people have with content through bingeing,” she said.
Channel 4 has been one of the leading lights in the international formats with shows such as Gogglebox,...
- 4/8/2018
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
The variety series Emmy race hasn’t always been a boys’ club. But Samantha Bee is bringing balance back to a category that had become way too male-dominated.
“Full Frontal with Samantha Bee” is the first female-fronted series to be nominated in the relatively new Outstanding Variety Talk Series category, which was created in 2015. That’s when the TV Academy split the Outstanding Variety Series category into two: variety talk and variety sketch series.
The first year out, “Inside Amy Schumer” won the variety sketch Emmy, becoming the first female-fronted variety show to win a series Emmy since Tracey Ullman’s “Tracey Takes On” in 1997. But that was also the first time a variety show starring a woman had even been nominated in the variety series field since “Tracey Takes On” in 1999.
Read MoreEmmys: How the Election Helped Get the Talk Show Nominees (Mostly) Right
That’s right – a 15-year drought.
“Full Frontal with Samantha Bee” is the first female-fronted series to be nominated in the relatively new Outstanding Variety Talk Series category, which was created in 2015. That’s when the TV Academy split the Outstanding Variety Series category into two: variety talk and variety sketch series.
The first year out, “Inside Amy Schumer” won the variety sketch Emmy, becoming the first female-fronted variety show to win a series Emmy since Tracey Ullman’s “Tracey Takes On” in 1997. But that was also the first time a variety show starring a woman had even been nominated in the variety series field since “Tracey Takes On” in 1999.
Read MoreEmmys: How the Election Helped Get the Talk Show Nominees (Mostly) Right
That’s right – a 15-year drought.
- 7/19/2017
- by Michael Schneider
- Indiewire
As a post-recession, Iraq-war-concluding, police-brutality-video-watching America braced itself for a Presidential campaign pitting a Clinton against a Bush, a beloved late-night host wrapped up his long-running show, leaving America’s entertainment press grappling for words as though they were eulogizing a President or a Pope. Ah, who could forget 1992?
If you’ve had it up to here with this week’s outpouring of turgidity and grandiloquence, if you’re saying to yourself, “My God, when has anyone cared this much about a guy leaving a show?“, think back to the 1992 retirement of Johnny Carson, after 30 years of hosting The Tonight Show. “Look on the bright side; you won’t have to read or see any more coverage about me leaving the show,” Johnny half-joked during his final episode. “My God, the Soviet Union’s end hasn’t received this kind of publicity.” Carson was responding to bombastic encomiums that, until this week,...
If you’ve had it up to here with this week’s outpouring of turgidity and grandiloquence, if you’re saying to yourself, “My God, when has anyone cared this much about a guy leaving a show?“, think back to the 1992 retirement of Johnny Carson, after 30 years of hosting The Tonight Show. “Look on the bright side; you won’t have to read or see any more coverage about me leaving the show,” Johnny half-joked during his final episode. “My God, the Soviet Union’s end hasn’t received this kind of publicity.” Carson was responding to bombastic encomiums that, until this week,...
- 8/6/2015
- by Daniel Smith-Rowsey
- SoundOnSight
It's safe to say that, 17 years ago, The Daily Show was a fledgling show. "Daily satiric news anchor" was not a job. And Jon Stewart was just a stand-up comic and occasional actor, not yet the comedy nerd/political junkie's lord and savior.
Which isn't to say that Stewart and the team behind Comedy Central's late-night staple invented their own genre of topical tomfoolery. Shows like That Was the Week That Was experimented with the satirical news format as early as the Sixties. Everything from Bob & Ray to HBO's...
Which isn't to say that Stewart and the team behind Comedy Central's late-night staple invented their own genre of topical tomfoolery. Shows like That Was the Week That Was experimented with the satirical news format as early as the Sixties. Everything from Bob & Ray to HBO's...
- 8/6/2015
- Rollingstone.com
The Sopranos was named the best-written show in television history by the Writers Guild of America, edging out an eclectic collection of some of the most beloved and admired series. Members of the Writers Guild of America, West (Wgaw) and the Writers Guild of America, East (Wgae) voted online for the 101 Best Written TV Series, with David Chase’s iconic “family” drama topping Seinfeld, The Twilight Zone, All in the Family, and M*A*S*H*.
“At their core, all of these wonderful series began with the words of the writers who created them and were sustained by the writers...
“At their core, all of these wonderful series began with the words of the writers who created them and were sustained by the writers...
- 6/3/2013
- by Jeff Labrecque
- EW - Inside TV
"Welcome to 'The Daily Show'. Craig Kilborn is on assignment in Kuala Lumpur, I'm Jon Stewart."
And so began Jon Stewart's tenure as host of what has arguably become one of the most important sources of American satire over the last decade and a half. Since being created by Lizz Winstead and Madeleine Smithberg in 1996, "The Daily Show" has sought to hold both the media's and politicians' feet to the fire on wide-ranging issues. Once Stewart was chosen to replace Kilborn in 1999 -- who departed after alienating most of the show's female staff and prompting Winstead to leave after sexist comments he made in Esquire magazine -- the show was finally able to become what the creators had hoped it would be: a hilarious voice of reason and biting criticism in an absurd system.
In honor of Stewart's 50th birthday, we thought we'd take a look back at his auspicious first show,...
And so began Jon Stewart's tenure as host of what has arguably become one of the most important sources of American satire over the last decade and a half. Since being created by Lizz Winstead and Madeleine Smithberg in 1996, "The Daily Show" has sought to hold both the media's and politicians' feet to the fire on wide-ranging issues. Once Stewart was chosen to replace Kilborn in 1999 -- who departed after alienating most of the show's female staff and prompting Winstead to leave after sexist comments he made in Esquire magazine -- the show was finally able to become what the creators had hoped it would be: a hilarious voice of reason and biting criticism in an absurd system.
In honor of Stewart's 50th birthday, we thought we'd take a look back at his auspicious first show,...
- 11/28/2012
- by Carol Hartsell
- Huffington Post
"Welcome to 'The Daily Show'. Craig Kilborn is on assignment in Kuala Lumpur, I'm Jon Stewart."
And so began Jon Stewart's tenure as host of what has arguably become one of the most important sources of American satire over the last decade and a half. Since being created by Lizz Winstead and Madeleine Smithberg in 1996, "The Daily Show" has sought to hold both the media's and politicians' feet to the fire on wide-ranging issues. Once Stewart was chosen to replace Kilborn in 1999 -- who departed after alienating most of the show's female staff and prompting Winstead to leave after sexist comments he made in Esquire magazine -- the show was finally able to become what the creators had hoped it would be: a hilarious voice of reason and biting criticism in an absurd system.
In honor of Stewart's 50th birthday, we thought we'd take a look back at his auspicious first show,...
And so began Jon Stewart's tenure as host of what has arguably become one of the most important sources of American satire over the last decade and a half. Since being created by Lizz Winstead and Madeleine Smithberg in 1996, "The Daily Show" has sought to hold both the media's and politicians' feet to the fire on wide-ranging issues. Once Stewart was chosen to replace Kilborn in 1999 -- who departed after alienating most of the show's female staff and prompting Winstead to leave after sexist comments he made in Esquire magazine -- the show was finally able to become what the creators had hoped it would be: a hilarious voice of reason and biting criticism in an absurd system.
In honor of Stewart's 50th birthday, we thought we'd take a look back at his auspicious first show,...
- 11/28/2012
- by Carol Hartsell
- Aol TV.
Like its more established sibling Nickelodeon, which switches to the adult-themed Nick at Nite in primetime, Nick Jr. too will launch a primetime programming block targeting adults. Named NickMom, the ad-supported nightly block on the preschooler-focused Nick Jr. will feature a mix of original long- and short-form humor-based programming, including talk shows, docu-series, stand-up and sketch comedy, hidden camera and game shows. The TV block will air nightly from 9 Pm to 1 Am (Et) with two-hours of original content and a replay immediately following. It will launch in 4Q12. The companion NickMom web site will debut this coming Monday as a blog on Nickelodeon’s ParentsConnect.com. “Today’s moms who grew up with Nickelodeon have a renewed relationship with us through their kids, and now we have something for them as adults in NickMom.” said Nickelodeon Networks president Cyma Zarghami. There are 30 projects already in the works for the new...
- 11/9/2011
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
Rapper Nelly is in talks to star in a weekly variety show that would feature his performance and other exploits in Las Vegas.
The weekly show entitled "Nelly's Night in Vegas" is being created by "The Daily Show" co-creator Madeleine Smithberg and 25/7's Dave Broome, Variety reports.
The show will feature performances and guest appearances, as well as a house band and a side kick for the hip-hop star and occasional actor. It is still being marketed to interested networks.
Nelly told Variety, "I was thinking about what was missing on TV, and when this idea came about, it made sense for me."...
The weekly show entitled "Nelly's Night in Vegas" is being created by "The Daily Show" co-creator Madeleine Smithberg and 25/7's Dave Broome, Variety reports.
The show will feature performances and guest appearances, as well as a house band and a side kick for the hip-hop star and occasional actor. It is still being marketed to interested networks.
Nelly told Variety, "I was thinking about what was missing on TV, and when this idea came about, it made sense for me."...
- 2/19/2009
- icelebz.com
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