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THE DAILY SHOW is one of my favorite television shows. In a similar style of Saturday Night Live's Weekend Update, THE DAILY SHOW delivers the news with a comedic sense, and then the host/anchorman, Jon Stewart, will interview a celebrity for four minutes. This show is informative as well as funny, because the news and interviews are all real with a comedic spin to them. Jon Stewart is very funny and talented and is much better than Craig Kilborn, who was also very good. Steven Colbert, Beth Littleford, Lewis Black, Vance Degeneres (better than his sister, for sure!), Mo Rocca and Steven Carell are all very talented comedians. Every episode is just as good as the next and it never gets old.

Last year I wrote the review below, but a lot has changed since.

I must say Trevor Noah is doing a stellar job, and I was wrong and impatient. I think I wanted Jon Stewart back, but there is only one Jon Stewart. Which doesn't mean nobody else would be able to do a great job.

I also loved Noah's new Netflix stand-up show! He is seriously 5- star funny!

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Look, it's not that we have to be stuck with Noah. I mean, in every business it's like this: if you are not competent you get fired.

Noah is not smart enough, also pointed out by him saying things like 'I didn't expect there would be so much journalism involved', he brings down the ratings, and he is by far less funny than any single member of the old crew. The constant laughing about his own jokes doesn't help either.

Yes, nobody can replace Stewart, but at least do your best to find someone who *understands* the concept. Do your due diligence before making such a big move.

Comedy Central really screwed the pooch by not considering/ignoring/letting Samantha Bee leave. She was the perfect choice. Just look at her current ratings. By the way, she brought with her the two head writers from Stewart's team.

And about the old crew, look at the new crew. Someone like Trevor Noah attracts mediocre talent, mediocre writers and a mediocre production. That is why Jessica Williams is leaving this week.

There are enough smart not-too-young women and men who can do a much better job. But if they don't make me laugh out loud to begin with, then don't even bother.

When a big story breaks, where do you turn for news coverage? CNN? FOX? BBC? CBC? No, no, no, and no. It's....Comedy Central? Oh yes. Believe it.

The Daily Show is the #1 fake comedic news show out there. Every weekday night on Comedy Central (or Comedy Network for me) Jon Stewart, officially the second funniest man in America, hosts a show that everyone needs to see. The whole show follows the main news stories of today and comments on them with hilarious political satire. Not only that, but everyday, a guest comes in for an interview. And I'm not talking guests nobody has heard of. We're talking about Bill Clinton, Matthew Broderick, Desmond Tutu, John Kerry, etc.

The Daily Show is definitely worth your time. Give it a try. You'll be glad you did.

We all know that Comedy Central and the Daily Show has been on the liberal side, but at least John Stewart was equal opportunity of making fun of whichever side was saying/doing stupid things. I tried watching Trevor for 4 years and the show now has a total 1 sided hate agenda. They don't even get the facts straight for a number of their stories. It made me so frustrated and I realized the show was making me so angry I had to stop watching. I like Trevor as a person, but I miss John Stewarts version of the show which had a more diverse view of the world and interviews. I wish the Daily Show would work harder on fact checking stories and moved a little more away from the partisan agenda. Bring us news of the world, make sure it is factual, and let us all laugh about it. I'm not sure if the show forgot, but liberal people do funny stupid things too.

I am updating my initial negative review I made only just a few weeks after Trevor started. I realize now that i was supremely influenced by my own feelings of grief and anger at Jon Stewart's departure. The ONLY reason I kept watching Trevor was because I knew Jon had chose him for a reason and I was loyally determined to discover the hidden gem that he must have seen in Trevor in order to choose him as a successor. I'm happy for not giving up on this show, because I finally do see it now and it's so good that I feel guilty for being too quick to judge. Seriously, as if I could have done better. Hats off to Trevor for the courage it took to step up to the plate and for finding his voice. Its obvious to me now that he just needed a bit more time to feel that confidence to be himself that only comes with time and practice and experience. Because right now he's there, in the zone. I love his content and his delivery. He's genuine, lovable and as smart as he is funny and that's pretty much what loved about Jon. The spirit of the daily show lives on! It cuts through the bullshit with the perfect balance of humor and enlightenment. If your not watching it you're missing out. Seriously. I would be miserable without the daily show and John Oliver's "Last week tonight" on HBO or the pirate bay ;-) Thanks IMDb

It's really too bad that the truth can only be spoken these days by comedians. News ain't what it used to be, thanks to corporate interests. If you disagree, it's got nothing to do with opinion; you're just blind to the fact that corporate interests decide the news, which help wealthy tax cuts for the rich, and profit the war profiteers (who own the news networks and press, dummies). Show me I'm wrong. Liberal press, indeed.

Hopefully this show will continue to speak the truth to power, those that abuse power, and anyone profiting off the misery of others, particularly the military and the poor. Go Jon! You rock buddy!

The success of a show like The Daily Show, especially during the John Stewart era, has inspired countless imitators and changed the way talk shows were marketed at young audiences weaned on watching the nightly news with their baby boomer parents. With the Daily Show being shown a half hour early than most late night shows and being shown exclusively on cable TV, it makes sense.

The Daily Show has evolved into a cult status and it's popular especially since Jon Stewart took over the helm some years ago. I remember Jon Stewart and Lisa Edelstein (Dr. Cuddy of House) being the video jockeys on MTV in the Morning which only seems like yesterday. Anyway the Daily Show has evolved into an exciting half-hour of fun, entertainment, and even enlightenment. You can't help but notice that Jon's guests are no longer celebrities but mostly authors, educators, and politicians. He seems to be at ease with them than at the Oscars. How many times can you interview somebody about a movie or television show? As Stephen Colbert would say, Stewart has the balls and makes this show a success but he doesn't maintain that standard fare that would make us tune out. The short features from his correspondents are always worth watching as well. I love Samantha Bee and the ever changing titles of his correspondents as well. I remember Nancy Walls and Steve Carrell (now of "The Office) doing their reports. Lewis Black is always welcome on the show. Chris Rock doing the Republican conventions is always a scream.

We (my husband and I) started watching this after seeing Trevor Noah doing stand up on a comedy special. We thought he was so hilarious that when we saw he was on a TV Show regularly, we started watching it. We were not disappointed, Yes he talks about Trump. Trump tweets things and says things that really, all you have to do is repeat them. The jokes write themselves. He has ALSO been commenting on all the democrats running and not always in a favorable light. He also does talk about other things. His sidekicks are also funny. I think the problem is the country has become so divisive that we've forgotten how to laugh and take every comment too personally. It's time to relax and let that sense of humour out. Also to address a couple of comments in here about "Go back where you came from" .We must remember USA is NOT the only country in the world. When we make fun of Angela Merkel or Prince Charles for example, do you think it keeps them up at night making them angry? Probably not... they probably laugh and think it's funny.

Love this show. I have watched Trevor Noah's standup comedy. Hilarious !! I used to like Jon Stewart but Trevor Noah's show is atleast as good if not better.

Trevor Noah has his own style, but he is a very intelligent host like John Stewart was. He is on top of things pretty well, and he seems to run a tight ship there. My one complaint is that the show is four half hour segments per week yet they seem to take a week off once maybe every six weeks. I realize it takes a lot of work to keep such a show fresh. John Stewart in his last episodes took the audience on a tour behind the scenes to show just how many people and departments it takes to run the Daily Show.....It was astonishing. Still...When they aren't doing the show or St just showing highlights....They really are missed.

Jon Stewart took over a nondescript comedy show and turned it into a venue that aired some of the best political satire on television on nearly a daily basis for about a decade and a half. In a world where politicians and the media that are supposed to cover them seem to compete with each other over who is most morally bankrupt, most corrupt, most cynical, and most stupid, Stewart's show provided moments of relief and sanity and common sense, packaged as comedy around a body of top-notch research.

The Daily Show used to be extraordinary. It spawned a few other shows where former cast members explored interesting variations on the theme of satirizing public life, and might have created or defined a genre in the process. Those days are over.

I tried to like its new host, Trevor Noah. There is a phase of comparison anybody in his position has to overcome, where he is seen as replacing somebody rather than simply a voice of his own. There are all these small differences, some deliberate, others maybe not, that might annoy old fans just because they are different from what they are used to, and wouldn't have been even noticed otherwise (the out-of-breath voice of the announcer in the opening credits, introducing the Moment of Zen standing up, ...). It takes a while to find one's voice in this kind of job, and Noah still looks like he can't quite believe his luck, or how funny the jokes are (even when he messes them up), but it took Stewart a little bit of time to find the Zone of Anger at "the system" necessary for his brand of satire, so maybe Noah just needs more time to get there. All of these things are fixable.

A more serious problem, I think, is that Noah is moved by something less interesting than Stewart. When news people, cornered by public opinion that trusted a comedy show more than what they tried to create, "accused" Stewart of being their (biased) competition, he would insist that his primary motivation was comedy based on the absurdity of the system, rather than a specific political agenda. Many (especially conservative) folks dismissed this as a tactical response, but I think it was essentially true. Of course most viewers of Stewart's show would be "liberal", but I think it could have been watched and enjoyed by a conservative, too, for its irreverent criticism of across-the-aisle stupidity and callousness and Stewart's non-partisan sense of fairness that allowed him to have many productive and interesting conversations with people he deeply disagreed with.

Noah's show is different. His primary motivator isn't comedic wonder at the theater of the absurd that is American public discourse, but a specific political view. He wants viewers to think about things in a certain way, and he has little to offer to those that don't. Where Stewart's classical foe was Fox News, Noah just piles on the Trump, an easy target, but without its refraction in incompetent and biased media only of passing comedic value. Of course, Trump would have found a prominent place in Stewart's show, too, but while we enjoyed laughing at his antics, we would also have learned something about how his story was told to us by our media. Noah tries to emulate the taste of Stewart's show, but without the fiber. He has lost the essence of TDS because his interests are essentially different from Stewart's, and we are just a little poorer for it.

IMDb should make a new entry for the Trevor Noah version of the show. It is doubtful that it has more than a 4.5 rating. In Jon's day this show was better news than the news AND the funniest show on TV.

Ok, I'll be the first to say: When Craig Kilborn left the show, i thought it was going to suck. Boy was I wrong.

This is the one show on television that i make an effort to watch. Amidst a wasteland of stupidity, this is the last bastion of entertaining intelligence. Since the major television networks have turned into crap factories: turning out one crappy reality show after another, it's comforting to find a place in The Daily Show that makes fun of those people.

Jon Stewart is one of the funniest (not to mention brightest) people out there. Whenever I get bored, i watch old clips of him interviewing the Spice Girls or the one about Executing the Retarded. Somebody give this man a raise (no--that was not a short joke); he has earned it.

Jon is the man!

Yes, we miss Craig and no dice with James Corden but Jon Stewarts The Daily Show is still killing it! Jons demeanor and attitude were just plain fun and outstanding! So after retirement and bringing in Trevor Noah, I thought it would be a flop like James Corden did to LLS with Criag, BUT I think this is the first LN show that has finally picked a great successor! (sorry, Colbert to Letterman is an insult). Trevor is a natural and hats off if Jon had anything to do with the selection process, because I have zero complaints! The transition was smooth and entertaining, and oddly enough, although the format didn't change much (if even at all), Trevor has his own 'thing' going on that keeps you smiling and laughing just as Jon always did, yet he is not imitating Jon. I'd like to see Jon as a guest back on his own show once in a while, both him and Trevor would be a blast. Oh, and the ONLY thing Trevor did better: I FINALLY after all these years noticed that what I thought Jon always said in closing "this is your moments end" is actually "moment of zen" lol. Thanks for clarifying that for me Trevor! Keep up the great work guys!

It's hard to fill the shoes of someone who was such an iconic host...as is obvious with Trevor Noah taking over 'The Daily Show' from Jon Stewart. Admittedly less successful than Jimmy Fallon was replacing Jay Leno on 'The Tonight Show', Noah would probably be taken a lot more favorably had this been his own show from the start and not as Stewart's replacement ~ a VERY hard act to follow.

That being said, Trevor Noah IS funny...especially his comedic take on the current Trump Administration and all its pathetic minions, from Sean Spicer to Kellyanne Conway. Add into that the corrupt Vladimir Putin, deranged Kim Jung Un, and our entire dysfunctional Congress, Noah could easily do an hour long show five nights a week!

This South African native has spot-on comedic timing and sarcastic facial expressions that really bring the jokes home! Although 'The Daily Show' still has dozens of writers like it did with Stewart, without someone to deliver them in a funny way makes them completely useless. And unlike many of the reviewers here, I find Trevor Noah hilarious ~ and really look forward to the show the four weeknights it's on!

Trevor have you thought about doing a special in South Africa. One of the best shows on TV. I don't watch these days because of my work schedule. Great show.

Jon Stewert is a kickin' show but it has lost most of it's funniest people(Steve Carell and Stephen Colbert were the funniest). Though it has gotten a little bit worse I still think it deserves it's Emmy's. Ecpecially since he and Stephen Colbert have Gorge Bush and other politics to laugh at(but Stephen Colbert makes fun of more then politics which is why i like him better)

The Daily Show and The Colbert Report are slowly becoming T.V comedy classics such as The Simpsons. WARNING: If whoever is reading EVER becomes famous for whatever reason, be careful that you never do anything stupid because Jon Stewert and Stephen Colbert WILL BE ON YOU IF THEY DISAGREE!

"The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" combines intelligent, often brilliantly insightful political satire with an almost childish sense of joy, and occasional devolution to the immature which generally juxtaposes well, embodied by the incredible Jon Stewart, whose multi-faceted hosting style is too much for this review, has been the wellspring of contemporary knowledge for the younger generation for nearly a decade.

On Jon Stewart himself I must say is probably (though I leave room for personal opinions) the funniest man in the states, and one of the funniest in the world. His combines seriousness and childishness, modesty with insight.

The show itself is formatted well, the opening segment, normally Jon Stewart alone, is in my opinion the funniest part of the show; it deal with the big news. The second part is where the show's variety of correspondents do their stuff. Most people consider John Oliver the funniest, with good cause, but the less used Lewis Black, John Hodgeman and Demetri Martin are also excellent. Jason Jones and Aasif Mandvi always struck me as somewhat more generic, and Samantha Bee a bit annoying.

However it is in the interview where Jon Stewart really shows his stuff. Rarely directly engaging in debate (Though he made exceptions for Mike Huckabee, Billy Crystal and Crossfire) he is nevertheless quite capable of making his point while never appearing to be a jackass. On the contrary he is remarkably humble and upfront about his alleged ignorance. Occasional an interview takes up two segments is the guest is important (Such as General Musharraf, Tony Blair, Jimmy Carter etc...). All in all the interview can be the funniest part of the show, the most interesting or the dullest, it depends largely on the guest.

Lastly a few general comments. Though often criticized for misinforming or merely distracting youths (see Bill O'Reilly on 'stoned slackers') recent studies have shown that people who cite The Daily Show/ Colbert Report as their primary source of news are the best informed (FOX news was last one year as I recall). Oh and as a response to those who accuse it of having a liberal bias... you're right, sort of. The writers may be left-leaning in general, but they are more concerned about whats funny, and in fact will target anyone, as evidenced by their recent, surprisingly critical, coverage of the Obama administration.

Lastly, a lot of people see this as a fake news show, but I think it's more News Satire. If you watch it closely, you find that most jokes, and certainly the funniest, come not from mocking or in some way misrepresenting events, but from satirizing the coverage of these events. Especially in recent years it has grown incredibly critical of mainstream news's sensationalism.

Overall, a fantastic show, one of the best on television, the only reason I didn't give it a 10/10 was because it's only on 4 nights a week (And because of Sam Bee).

This is the only show that is capable of making me laugh 'til I cry. 'Friends' used to. Occasionally. But this show does it on a regular basis. Forget everything else that purports to be comedy. This is the real deal. There is, of course, the occasional unfunny segment. But that's to be expected. It's not easy coming up with burning satire four days a week. And people's tastes vary. (A weekly format would probably suit the content better.) But in general, I can't see how anyone could have a bad word to say about it. (Except, of course, O'Reilly, Hannity and all the other GOP/Murdoch stooges at Fox News. And anyone else who doesn't have an open mind and the ability to laugh at themselves.)

This the show the daily show has been around for quite some time. The show basically tells you about the news that is currently happening while making fun of it. This show unlike most comedian shows actually has character, it has started the comedian genre ( even though I know that Saturday night live did that)

Many people have left the daily show and started their own careers in the same space, and you can see in their style and set and jokes they are much like John Stewart. Just look at John Oliver's set up, it's almost exactly like John Stewart's.

I also love how in every chance he gets John Stewart makes fun of Arby's which I find hilarious because there are many places like Arby's but he chooses to make fun of that particular brand.

The last thing is that John also really inter acts with his guests when they are on the show, you also might see guests like that on other newer shows that pick up on it. It's really sad that he is retiring though. If you want a good laugh then you should watch this show, it's great.

As a newer viewer, I love the Daily Show. I've been watching for only a couple of years but I've never missed an episode. I love the show and I think that it could be considered thought provoking as well as funny. I love Trevor Noah and after reading his memoir, I feel like I understand his style better. My only concern is that it hasn't aired any new episodes this week. Is the staff on holiday? I sincerely hope this isn't a bad sign dor the future of the Daily Show.