One-trick pony Jon Stewart is again claiming that Apple TV+ canceled his show not because basically nobody was watching it either in its original form or in its reboot attempt in a second season, but because “they didn’t want me to say things that might get me in trouble.”
Ahead of his return as host of Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show,” Jon Stewart stopped by “CBS Mornings” to explain why it was finally time to return to his old job.
“I wanted a place to unload thoughts as we get into this election season,” Stewart said. “I thought I was going to do it over at — they call it Apple TV+. It’s a television enclave, very small. It’s like living in Malibu. But they decided…they felt that they didn’t want me to say things that might get me in trouble.”
Stewart debuted his Apple series, “The Problem With Jon Stewart,” in 2021 as part of a multi-year first-look deal he signed with the streaming arm of the tech giant. The first season of the show aired episodes every two weeks, while the second season switched to a weekly format. “The Problem” had Stewart exploring a single topic with each episode.
MacDailyNews Take: All of these watery claims – notably lacking any proof – are excreted from just one source, Jon Stewart, who is, by now, clearly a one-trick pony (trotting back yet again to The Daily Show after a failed film career followed by a twice-failed Apple TV+ show) – and Stewart is a bitter pony at that; likely due to being repeatedly rejected by both the audience and eventually by the people who bankrolled him until even they, likely fans themselves, had to stop flushing cash and finally cancel his eminently ignorable blather.
Fun facts: Apple let Jon Stewart say things that might get him in trouble for a full first season that nobody watched. Apple then allowed Jon Stewart to try to reboot the show for a second season, again allowing him to say things that might get him in trouble, and paying him while – shocker! – nobody watched again.
The Problem with Jon Stewart was canceled because the audience didn’t give a shit about it.
Jon Stewart is too small – he’s a Shetland one-trick pony – to simply accept his cancelation, so he runs to a sympathetic media (itself failing) spreading a cover story, sans proof, while he trots back to the only place he’s ever had any “success,” The Daily Show, a ratings-less show an a tiny, ever-shrinking cable outlet that nobody watches, that today is nothing more than just a generator of short TikTok clips that target a small, shrinking, and rapidly aging echo chamber of a certain political bent.
How to save face when your low-viewership flop is finally canceled (after a bonus season gifted by Apple)? Drop the threadbare "creative differences" into the complicit press and let the echo chamber do the work. pic.twitter.com/GgBVGCREeE
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Apple awesome. Anyone who disagrees bad.
apple could have told him that to spare his feelings.
Hard news to find out people just don’t want you, because of you, yourself.
oh well.
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DOJ: Biden is too senile to prosecute for corruption and treason
Liburds: It’s OK the let the lying, corrupt, racist, pedophile dementia patient continue as a puppet in the White House.
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Having a dementia patient running the government shows us just how little we need the government and how fuccing stupid libturds are.
Attn Libturds,
Downvoting that post does NOT make is any less true, but it DOES make you more stupid.
When downvoting, please post your name so you can show your stupidity.
“Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.”
― George Carlin
“Think of how stupid the average Libturd is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.”
― Sam
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Agreed. MDN’s quick Take above was more enjoyable than anything Stewart has shat out in years.
Jon Stewart was great on The Daily Show. I’ll watch him there any time.
The Problem with Jon Stewart on AppleTV+ was bad. It wasn’t funny. It was mostly unwatchable.
It should have been cancelled after two episodes, not two seasons.
I’ll agree he WAS good on The Daily Show and sucked on his Problem stunt I mean stint, but I’m afraid his schtick has worn thin in the political arena. Pretty sure his mission is to ‘left’ all those minds ‘righted’ in his absence and rev up the crowd to participate in Biden’s Re-appointment, aka “Number Two, Part Two”…
Maybe he WAS good on The Daily Show, but for A LOT of people, he was their news.
That’s tragic.
With a title beginning with “One-trick pony Jon Stewart…” I had no idea what the political slant of this “News” article would be.
Come on get real, He was gonna say shit that might get APPLE in trouble. and They couldn’t afford that. He’s going off line and not advertiser friendly. Now mind ya somethings he said were true and should be talked about more, but other things are way off base. It’s like watching a old man just rant about stuff.
What happened to Jon Stewart’s face though? It’s a shocker. It’s offensive to see it, almost. George Clooney had aged but nowhere near as badly as Jon. The problem with Jon is that he’s a leftist wan-car.
I haven’t been here in a while. Arrive, get greeted by give us money and idiot Temu ads. Is there an original thought in your heads? Pop ups, slather on the “social media” links? Then more right wing bullsh-t. Here’s a thought that does have wider applicability, “All of these watery claims – notably lacking any proof ..” That one sounds very familiar, thinking…. I’ll leave that to you geniuses.
I never watched Stewart in the day and could care less about him now but your apparently ceaseless droppings of right wing drivel remains plenty enough for me to set you back into the penalty box along with all the right and left extremists. You all don’t get enough of this political crap day in, day out?
I’m glad you dropped the sliding pictures of Limbaugh but even you had some respect for someone after he passed.
The ads you get served, genius, are based on your browsing history or how many blockers you have running. The ads I see here on MDN are for displays, iPhone cases, and Merrell shoes because I’ve whitelisted MDN to support the site.
You get “idiot” ads because you’re an idiot.
This site should be renamed “Apple New for Trumpists.” If you’re not in the cult, move along. Can anyone recommend an apolitical Mac news site?
So… Jon Stewart on his first show back said in part:
“Why am I back?”
“Well, I have committed a lot of crimes
(and) From what I understand, talk show hosts are granted immunity.
Doesn’t make a lot of sense but take it up with the Founders.”
Now come on … that was funny as well as politically relevant no matter what side of the isle you are on!
Additionally no one called anyone a disparaging name in those few sentences unlike what we see in this forum all the time mostly from angry folks.
Even making a nod to D.J Trump so that listeners, if they wished, could ponder his particular legal point of view.
Lighten up folks: good humor is supposed to make us think, perhaps give us a different perspective that’s worth pondering.