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Some years ago, right, after Stephen Colbert

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abandoned the Colbert Report, went to the Late

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Show, which I don't blame him. I mean, it was

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a big pile of money. They backed him to his house.

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John Stewart retires, right? And I don't blame

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him. And if you read his stuff, the amount of

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work it took to put that show on and be topical

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every single day, it's hard. Like that is work

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right there. And the guy was finally just worn

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out. And I don't blame him at all. So he he nominates

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Trevor Noah To succeed him at The Daily Show

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and I liked Trevor and I don't think he did a

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bad job But I don't think he was the right host

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for that show Now John went did his thing with

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Apple for a little bit and then apparently got

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into a thing with Apple and he left Apple and

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by the way If you didn't watch the problem with

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Jon Stewart on Apple, it was great The shows

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he did until he made Apple mad And then he decides,

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okay, I'm going to do one day a week, right?

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John does Mondays on The Daily Show. And apparently

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the ratings are going back up since John came

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back. And then they rotate correspondence into

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the host chair the other three days of the week.

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Who do you get to, because eventually John's

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either going to die or walk away. Who do you

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get to replace him? Number one. And number two.

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Can you replace John Stewart or Has Has he become

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so intrinsic to what the Daily Show is that there's

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just no way to replace him I I don't think you

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can honestly replace him to be honest at this

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point. I don't think you can He's anxious it's

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it's John or bust Yep Yeah, I I I would have

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said John Oliver had John Oliver not been moved

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away to HBO Prior to to John doing the Daily

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Show leaving the Daily Show John Oliver was probably

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the one I would have I would have picked Actually

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I just had a better idea. I just had a great

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idea. Because Stephen Colbert, he's made his

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money, right? He's done. He's good. He's filthy

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rich. He never has to work again if he doesn't

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want to. Why not bring Stephen in? Because you

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know what? That's the other person I could see

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doing it. I can see Stephen doing that segment.

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I can see him. And the other thing that's good

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about The Daily Show is John got really good

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at those interviews, right? He knows how to press

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in those interviews. He knows how to make them

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fun. He knows how to do them really well. Could

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you, could you put Stephen in that chair and

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would that work? Now that the late show's done.

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And he doesn't need money. Let's say Stephen

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Colbert came back to Paramount and said, look,

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I'll do it for twenty thousand an episode. I'll

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do it for a buck an episode. Who cares? Right.

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Could you see him in that chair? Yeah, I could.

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Totally. I think that's what they got to do.

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They got to I don't. The problem is you got to

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find somebody who can hold up their own show.

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The reason Stephen Colbert did so well is he

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started on The Daily Show as a correspondent,

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then he did the Colbert Report, right? And he

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could carry his own show, right? John Oliver

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can carry his own show. I don't see anybody on

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there. Like, I like Desi Lydic. I like Josh Johnson.

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I like the guys that got on the show, but I don't

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see how any of them can carry that whole show.

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Yeah. Yeah, I don't think so. YouTube chat, somebody

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say, John, Josh Johnson would have me watching

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every night. Do you watch the Josh Johnson episodes?

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Which he's the young black guy. Oh, yeah. He's

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coming to Seattle. I think we actually have tickets

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to see his stand up. Yeah. I would actually watch

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him do stand up. He is coming to Seattle next

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August. Yep. So what do you think? Could he carry

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the show? I don't. He's funny. I watch his stuff.

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He is really really funny, but I don't know if

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he I I haven't ever seen him interview people

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So that's the only thing doesn't he do the interviews

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the nights that he hosts I think so Are you one

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of those people that cuts it off at the interview

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Sometimes I don't think he would do it. But my

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favorite one is actually Ronnie Chang Oh I I

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love Ronnie I I do really like him. I would put

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Josh above though personally Really? Yeah, but

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I mean, you know, this is like Soft -served versus

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Blizzard, you know, you're just kind of your

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own taste. I don't know Yeah, I really like Ronnie

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Chang I don't know what they're going to do when

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John finally is done done. I don't I don't know.

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The problem is, is that he got. He John had the

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the Afghanistan and Iraq wars to really hone

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everything that he was doing and all the bullshit

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of the Bush administration and. And it was actually

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funny because like when he was doing his Apple

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show and I would see him interviewing these like

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the attorney general from Alabama or wherever

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and I'm like Why do you people let like why do

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you people go to these interviews with John Stewart?

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He's going to cry. He's too good at it Because

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he's been doing it for 26 years 25 years right?

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He's just He's he's had so much practice and

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that's part of the problem is you need a situation

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and I doubt and what's funny is John said this

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when he left because he left right around the

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time that Trump was running for president like

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he left in that era because he didn't want to

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be the one to do it and He knew that somebody

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needed something completely absurd like they

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were in Iraq To practice on to like hone what

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they were doing right and and that's you need

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somebody who can hone what they're doing and

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that's actually the other reason i don't think

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the rotational thing's working because none of

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them are getting enough reps in this absurd environment

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to do it the way that john does to carry the

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show does that make is anything that i'm saying

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making sense now well i stopped listening after

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the blizzard No, I'm just kidding. I'm kidding.

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No, yeah, it does. It does. That does make a

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really good point. It does make sense. I I've

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also heard that like late night shows are actually

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going down, but they're slowly fading away. They

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are slowly that daily show. They've got a good

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YouTube run. Right. Yeah. They actually just

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hit a 10 year high. On the Daily Show. Oh. On

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YouTube? On the Nielsen's. Oh. The Daily Show

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is up 44 % from a year ago. Their share went

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from 2 .9 to 4 .17 in 2025. Up 15 % in pure ratings

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numbers. Live rating went from 342 to 393 ,000

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for live. And then his Mondays, that's the average

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for the whole show. The Mondays went from a 4

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.19 to a 6 .01 share live viewing on John's nights,

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right? So we said the average for the show writ

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large is 393. John's nights are 550 ,000 for

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live view, not rewatch. And it's up 21 % on Paramount

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Plus compared to a year ago. That's really what

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that's streaming. Wow. Tank. We should just do

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that. I don't know. I'm saying like they're actually

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going up in this era. The Daily Show is is and

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this is from 10 days ago. That's when those numbers

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came out. Hmm. That's interesting. So everybody

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else is kind of having a hard time the Daily

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Show is resurgent That's really good. Hey also

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Comedy Central if you'd like to hire Jay and

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I to co -host the Daily Show I could sing the

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theme song Yeah, maybe I could be like a security

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person sitting off to the side John was commented

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the other day about how he needed a live band.

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He could be the live band We'll make you we'll

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get you one of those one -man band like Get ups

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with like yeah the thing and the two of the D

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symbols. I think you'd be great at that. I I'm

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willing to try it. Let's do it