Some years ago, right, after Stephen Colbert
abandoned the Colbert Report, went to the Late
Show, which I don't blame him. I mean, it was
a big pile of money. They backed him to his house.
John Stewart retires, right? And I don't blame
him. And if you read his stuff, the amount of
work it took to put that show on and be topical
every single day, it's hard. Like that is work
right there. And the guy was finally just worn
out. And I don't blame him at all. So he he nominates
Trevor Noah To succeed him at The Daily Show
and I liked Trevor and I don't think he did a
bad job But I don't think he was the right host
for that show Now John went did his thing with
Apple for a little bit and then apparently got
into a thing with Apple and he left Apple and
by the way If you didn't watch the problem with
Jon Stewart on Apple, it was great The shows
he did until he made Apple mad And then he decides,
okay, I'm going to do one day a week, right?
John does Mondays on The Daily Show. And apparently
the ratings are going back up since John came
back. And then they rotate correspondence into
the host chair the other three days of the week.
Who do you get to, because eventually John's
either going to die or walk away. Who do you
get to replace him? Number one. And number two.
Can you replace John Stewart or Has Has he become
so intrinsic to what the Daily Show is that there's
just no way to replace him I I don't think you
can honestly replace him to be honest at this
point. I don't think you can He's anxious it's
it's John or bust Yep Yeah, I I I would have
said John Oliver had John Oliver not been moved
away to HBO Prior to to John doing the Daily
Show leaving the Daily Show John Oliver was probably
the one I would have I would have picked Actually
I just had a better idea. I just had a great
idea. Because Stephen Colbert, he's made his
money, right? He's done. He's good. He's filthy
rich. He never has to work again if he doesn't
want to. Why not bring Stephen in? Because you
know what? That's the other person I could see
doing it. I can see Stephen doing that segment.
I can see him. And the other thing that's good
about The Daily Show is John got really good
at those interviews, right? He knows how to press
in those interviews. He knows how to make them
fun. He knows how to do them really well. Could
you, could you put Stephen in that chair and
would that work? Now that the late show's done.
And he doesn't need money. Let's say Stephen
Colbert came back to Paramount and said, look,
I'll do it for twenty thousand an episode. I'll
do it for a buck an episode. Who cares? Right.
Could you see him in that chair? Yeah, I could.
Totally. I think that's what they got to do.
They got to I don't. The problem is you got to
find somebody who can hold up their own show.
The reason Stephen Colbert did so well is he
started on The Daily Show as a correspondent,
then he did the Colbert Report, right? And he
could carry his own show, right? John Oliver
can carry his own show. I don't see anybody on
there. Like, I like Desi Lydic. I like Josh Johnson.
I like the guys that got on the show, but I don't
see how any of them can carry that whole show.
Yeah. Yeah, I don't think so. YouTube chat, somebody
say, John, Josh Johnson would have me watching
every night. Do you watch the Josh Johnson episodes?
Which he's the young black guy. Oh, yeah. He's
coming to Seattle. I think we actually have tickets
to see his stand up. Yeah. I would actually watch
him do stand up. He is coming to Seattle next
August. Yep. So what do you think? Could he carry
the show? I don't. He's funny. I watch his stuff.
He is really really funny, but I don't know if
he I I haven't ever seen him interview people
So that's the only thing doesn't he do the interviews
the nights that he hosts I think so Are you one
of those people that cuts it off at the interview
Sometimes I don't think he would do it. But my
favorite one is actually Ronnie Chang Oh I I
love Ronnie I I do really like him. I would put
Josh above though personally Really? Yeah, but
I mean, you know, this is like Soft -served versus
Blizzard, you know, you're just kind of your
own taste. I don't know Yeah, I really like Ronnie
Chang I don't know what they're going to do when
John finally is done done. I don't I don't know.
The problem is, is that he got. He John had the
the Afghanistan and Iraq wars to really hone
everything that he was doing and all the bullshit
of the Bush administration and. And it was actually
funny because like when he was doing his Apple
show and I would see him interviewing these like
the attorney general from Alabama or wherever
and I'm like Why do you people let like why do
you people go to these interviews with John Stewart?
He's going to cry. He's too good at it Because
he's been doing it for 26 years 25 years right?
He's just He's he's had so much practice and
that's part of the problem is you need a situation
and I doubt and what's funny is John said this
when he left because he left right around the
time that Trump was running for president like
he left in that era because he didn't want to
be the one to do it and He knew that somebody
needed something completely absurd like they
were in Iraq To practice on to like hone what
they were doing right and and that's you need
somebody who can hone what they're doing and
that's actually the other reason i don't think
the rotational thing's working because none of
them are getting enough reps in this absurd environment
to do it the way that john does to carry the
show does that make is anything that i'm saying
making sense now well i stopped listening after
the blizzard No, I'm just kidding. I'm kidding.
No, yeah, it does. It does. That does make a
really good point. It does make sense. I I've
also heard that like late night shows are actually
going down, but they're slowly fading away. They
are slowly that daily show. They've got a good
YouTube run. Right. Yeah. They actually just
hit a 10 year high. On the Daily Show. Oh. On
YouTube? On the Nielsen's. Oh. The Daily Show
is up 44 % from a year ago. Their share went
from 2 .9 to 4 .17 in 2025. Up 15 % in pure ratings
numbers. Live rating went from 342 to 393 ,000
for live. And then his Mondays, that's the average
for the whole show. The Mondays went from a 4
.19 to a 6 .01 share live viewing on John's nights,
right? So we said the average for the show writ
large is 393. John's nights are 550 ,000 for
live view, not rewatch. And it's up 21 % on Paramount
Plus compared to a year ago. That's really what
that's streaming. Wow. Tank. We should just do
that. I don't know. I'm saying like they're actually
going up in this era. The Daily Show is is and
this is from 10 days ago. That's when those numbers
came out. Hmm. That's interesting. So everybody
else is kind of having a hard time the Daily
Show is resurgent That's really good. Hey also
Comedy Central if you'd like to hire Jay and
I to co -host the Daily Show I could sing the
theme song Yeah, maybe I could be like a security
person sitting off to the side John was commented
the other day about how he needed a live band.
He could be the live band We'll make you we'll
get you one of those one -man band like Get ups
with like yeah the thing and the two of the D
symbols. I think you'd be great at that. I I'm
willing to try it. Let's do it