Jon Stewart will host “The Daily Show” on Thursday night time following the suspension of Jimmy Kimmel.
Stewart has solely hosted on Mondays since returning to the present final yr with the present’s correspondents taking turns behind the desk. Desi Lydic hosted on Tuesday and Wednesday.
The sudden change comes a day after ABC pulled “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” from the air indefinitely following Kimmel’s Monday monologue the place he criticized conservatives’ response to Charlie Kirk’s homicide and suspected gunman Tyler Robinson with out realizing his motivations.
“The MAGA gang [is] desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it,” Kimmel mentioned.
Federal Communications Fee Chairman Brendan Carr threatened Disney with revoking ABC’s broadcasting license following Kimmel’s present, telling right-wing podcaster Benny Johnson the FCC has “remedies we can look at. We can do this the easy way or the hard way.”
Hours later Nexstar and Sinclair each mentioned they’d preempt Kimmel on their ABC associates.
“Was this purely financial?” Stewart puzzled. “Or maybe the path of least resistance for your $8 billion merger was killing a show that you know rankled a fragile and vengeful president, so insecure, suffering terribly from a case of chronic penis insufficiency.”
Paramount owns each CBS and Comedy Central.
“The Daily Show” airs at 11 p.m. ET on Comedy Central, with the episode accessible on Paramount+ the next day.
