If The Daily Show doesn't fix its issues soon, we could be looking at the end of a comedic institution.
The Big Picture The writer's strike is over, and after a very long five months away, late-night TV is back. The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, and Late Night with Seth Meyers have all returned to their usual format of Donald Trump takedowns and celebrity interviews. Over at HBO, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver hasn't lost a step in calling out the corruption in our everyday world.
'The Daily Show' Has Yet to Name a Successor to Trevor Noah When Jon Stewart took over for Craig Kilborn on The Daily Show in 1999, he quickly took a struggling program that looked to make fun of the news of the day by turning it into an important expose on our political world. He was the voice of reason after 9/11 and during the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
What's the hold-up? People surely want the job. This indecision makes The Daily Show look weak, as if they're the ugly unwanted stepchild. They are left rudderless and without a voice. Many viewers don't watch a late-night show for the name. They watch because they love Stephen Colbert's monologues, Seth Meyers' "A Closer Look" segments, or how John Oliver digs deep into the issues. On The Daily Show, the voice changes every week.
If that wasn't bad enough, this month Roy Wood Jr. announced that he was leaving The Daily Show after eight years. There was no controversy in his leaving. Instead, Wood left because he was sick of waiting for a better opportunity. Since he was never offered the host role, he saw it as time to move on, telling NPR, "I can't come up with Plan B is while still working with Plan A. The job of correspondent... it's not really one where you can juggle multiple things.
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