Jon Stewart’s The Each day Present Future Stays Unsure

Jon Stewart has been the on-and-off face of Comedy Central’s The Each day Present for fairly a while. Sadly for the beloved late-night host and his followers, his future with the favored program could be nearing its finish.

Stewart first joined The Each day Present in 1999 and left in 2015. Nevertheless, he returned in February 2024 for the presidential elections, internet hosting on Monday nights. Shortly after, his contract bought prolonged to December 2025. Though he has expressed curiosity in staying and guaranteed followers that he is not going wherever, nothing has been finalized on the time of this text’s publication in relation to renewing his contract.

In accordance with The Hollywood Reporter, David Remnick, an editor from The New Yorker, requested him if he can be open to signing one other contract with The Each day Present. The comic responded by saying, “We’re engaged on staying.” He additionally acknowledged that if it had been solely as much as him, he would proceed to host the present.

The dialog with Remnick took a extra political flip after Jimmy Kimmel’s temporary suspension was introduced up. The editor recalled Stewart saying that he wasn’t going wherever after many late-night hosts had been fearful about their job stability. Stewart shared that whereas he was being “neurotic” when he mentioned that, he nonetheless deliberate to combat without cost speech no matter whether or not they determine to maintain him or not. “You don’t compromise on what you do, and also you do it till they inform you to go away.”

Stewart additionally additional elaborated concerning the course of behind The Each day Present episode that criticized President Donald Trump and Disney for pulling Kimmel off the air.

I feel it rattled everybody to some extent, however it additionally introduced nice alternative, and so I don’t know that we’ve had as a lot enjoyable as we did that Thursday morning, developing with all of the silly little s*** that you simply see, together with, like, gold footage and crimson ties. You realize, it gave us some objective.

The Each day Present airs new episodes Mondays by means of Thursdays each week at 11:00 PM ET and eight:00 PM ET on Comedy Central, and prolonged episodes might be streamed on Paramount+.