TMC
06-25-2025, 03:00 AM
https://latenighter.com/features/if-ever-the-daily-show-called-for-an-emergency-episode-monday-night-was-it/
The Daily Show is dark through the Fourth of July holiday weekend. But Stewart’s absence "begs the question: Is there any news event so major that perhaps the most celebrated comic voice on politics and current affairs might check in with his staff on a Sunday and suggest they really need to find a way to be on the air for this the next night?" says LateNighter's Bill Carter. "Sort of like what Rachel Maddow did, coming in on Sunday to anchor for MSNBC? Complicated? Expensive? Undoubtedly. Exciting? Attention-getting? Yep, that too." Carter adds: "Unrealistic? Probably. With the staff on break and the studio dark, to pull something like this off would mean rounding up a crew, at least a few writers, and finding an audience to show up and laugh. One imagines there are any number of other expensive logistical challenges that reduce this idea to the outer limits of whimsy. Still, it would be talked about—a not-irrelevant achievement in the current state of late-night television."
The Daily Show is dark through the Fourth of July holiday weekend. But Stewart’s absence "begs the question: Is there any news event so major that perhaps the most celebrated comic voice on politics and current affairs might check in with his staff on a Sunday and suggest they really need to find a way to be on the air for this the next night?" says LateNighter's Bill Carter. "Sort of like what Rachel Maddow did, coming in on Sunday to anchor for MSNBC? Complicated? Expensive? Undoubtedly. Exciting? Attention-getting? Yep, that too." Carter adds: "Unrealistic? Probably. With the staff on break and the studio dark, to pull something like this off would mean rounding up a crew, at least a few writers, and finding an audience to show up and laugh. One imagines there are any number of other expensive logistical challenges that reduce this idea to the outer limits of whimsy. Still, it would be talked about—a not-irrelevant achievement in the current state of late-night television."