well hey now i just got a text from my brother like "Are you watching the last daily show tonight?" and i was like "holy shit it's tonight?!?! i had no idea!" and indeed, this is it for the magnanimous jon stewart(/stuart leibowitz, brother of the NYSE president =) as he is leaving to give the reins to..... some guy (think dan bernstein's timeless "just a guy" label, which i pretty much think is the equivalent of a "replacement player" in baseball)

i used to watch this show a fairly good amount, but then 9/11 happened and it ceased being THE MOST IMPORTANT TELEVISION PROGRAM.... EVER! and then over time colbert popped up and his show was simply superior to the daily show in every way possible so colbert had me in for the "power hour" for a few years b4 the daily show started becoming optional b4 my mandatory colbert, and then over time my colbert viewership petered out by the point i had seen colbert do everything he possibly could do a few years ago.... and of course like everything in life (especially this board) colbert was ALWAYS better a few years ago, which means my daily show viewership decreased to a total zero over the last few years.

but now that it's the last night of the jon stewart era i'm going to tune in... you know there's going to be lots of cameos from previous correspondents, and while stephen colbert and steve carrell are the big obvious ones...... real talk guys i'm going to mark the fuck out if i get ellen's brother vance degeneres! COMEON VANCE!

so who's watching this with me? anyone? maybe this thread reminded you or even informed you that tonight is the night, so get in here and get it on! END OF AN ERA!

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Meh, I'll watch it on the internet. Like you, I haven't been an avid Daily Show fan in years, and when I do watch stuff now, it's just clips on the internet.

I missed out on the Serious Political Commentary Without Which Our Nation Couldn't Live era of the Daily Show (ironically, after the show stopped opening with "the most important television program...ever"), the serious political commentary to me not being much more than Jon Stewart making funny faces after George W. Bush clips. I picked it back up in the All Cable News Is A Toxic Threat To Our Democracy era but then sorta lost it again. I'm really glad I watched the show from 1999-2001, though.

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i feel the same way you do about daily show 99-01 with colbert 05-09. man those first 4-5 years of colbert were just fucking phenomenal.

i'll give my daily show moratorium/obituary later... but right now i ended up on late night with seth meyers for once and HOLY SHIT.... after surviving an ice-T and coco segment (holy shit man how can ice-T have any self respect at this point? it goes to show how BS "gangsta rap" often is when you consider THAT mug made 6 o clock in the morning or whatever)

but now some chick "lucy hale" is on seth meyers and HOLY SHIT this chick could get it....

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i watched all the kilborn years, went to a taping and met most of the people (including colbert, who was a real nice guy). i thought stewart was exactly what the show needed to get to that next level.

i really don't fault the daily show for being self aggrandizing. they were given that privilege by fox news legitimizing them by having stewart on and grilling him on political issues. stewart couldn't help but have a chesire grin answering questions as a comedian and as a political commentator, the latter which he earned simply because people started taking it seriously.

the thing is, it started picking on easy targets rather aggressively and since fox news is hardly news, it's not really much of a satirical machine anymore. it just pokes fun at the fat kid at the lunch table.

i did see stewart's farewell speech and it was pretty well done. i will miss the occasional rants he has gone on, because at times when he is sincere, he's the best there is.

I hear artie lang is the replacement

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I didn't watch much tv beyond sports until about 2006 or 2007 so I missed a lot. I was a fan but thought Colbert was so much better.

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GO BEARS!!!

that's essentially what it has been, picking on the fat kids. He could have brought humor to fight some good fights but chose the easy way out the last few years...

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I actually agreed with a lot of this, save for the parts where he says nice things about Tucker Carlson: http://theconcourse.deadspin.com/adios- ... 1722487403

I'm kind of bummed the Kilborn years were never added to the archive. It's because I preferred Kilborn to Stewart as a host but because I think the show was less one-note back then. I also thought The Day Today kind of made any incarnation pale in comparison.