Jon Stewart will remain ‘Daily Show’ host on Mondays through 2025

NEW YORK (AP) — Jon Stewart isn’t finished skewering the information — he’s signed on to proceed internet hosting “The Each day Present” on Mondays by means of the tip of subsequent yr.

Paramount introduced Monday that Stewart would proceed internet hosting the Comedy Central sequence as soon as per week, as he’s finished by means of a lot of 2024 within the runup to the U.S. presidential election.

The Emmy winner hosted “The Each day Present” from 1999 by means of 2015, delivering sharp, satirical takes on politics and present occasions and interviews with newsmakers. In his return run, he’s maintained his acerbic tackle American politics and the presidential race, which was shaken up in July when President Joe Biden introduced he would now not search reelection and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris because the Democratic nominee.

“His capacity to chop by means of the noise and ship clear-eyed insights is strictly what we want which is why we’re thrilled to have him main The Each day Present for one more yr,” mentioned Paramount International co-CEO Chris McCarthy.

Stewart, who returned in February and was initially alleged to host by means of the November election, joked in a press release that he needed to host each different Monday, however that he’ll “suck it up” and sustain with it weekly.

Stewart may even stay an govt producer on the present, which depends on a revolving sequence of hosts for the opposite days of the week. “The Each day Present” airs Mondays by means of Thursday at 11 p.m. Jap on Comedy Central and streams the subsequent day on Paramount+.