Jon Stewart is claiming that Apple ‘wouldn’t let us do’ an anti-A.I. segment and ‘asked us not’ to Have Federal Trade Commission chair Lina Khan as a podcast guest.
On the April 1 episode of “The Daily Show,” Stewart went into greater detail about Apple’s concerns over the direction of his now-axed talk show and corresponding podcast.
Stewart was interviewing Federal Trade Commission chair Lina Khan on “The Daily Show” and told her that he once pitched to have her as a guest on “The Problem” podcast. Considering Khan’s work at the FTC targets tech giants’ monopolistic practices, Apple allegedly did not want Stewart bringing her on the program to presumably talk about such topics.
“I wanted to have you on a podcast and Apple asked us not to do it,” Stewart said. “They literally said, ‘Please don’t talk to her.'”
Stewart went one step further and said Apple didn’t even want him talking about the perils of AI on his podcast.
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MacDailyNews Take: This story continues to be generated from one source: Jon Stewart. We’re leery of stories that emanate from a single source without corroboration. Stewart’s story (first it was “China”) and subsequent embellishments (now it’s “Lina Khan” and “A.I.”) smack of face-saving (let’s face it: “flop canceled due to low viewership” isn’t a sexy addition to one’s resume) and self-promotion for a one-trick pony (trotting back yet again to the safety of The Daily Show after a failed film career followed by a twice-failed Apple TV+ show). Stewart has long been irrelevant, more recently been canceled by Apple, and his color-by-numbers schtick grew tired even before he left the The Daily Show the last time.
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.
Let it go, Jon. Move on. You burned the bridge already. There’s nothing left.
But, Jon Stewart is too small – he’s a Shetland one-trick pony – to simply accept his cancelation and move on, so he runs to a sympathetic media (itself failing) spreading a cover story, sans corroboration, while he trots back to the only place he’s ever had any measure of success, albeit over a decade ago, The Daily Show, a ratings-less show on a tiny, ever-shrinking cable outlet that nobody watches, that today is nothing more than just a generator of short social media 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
— MacDailyNews (@MacDailyNews) October 20, 2023
See also:
• One-trick pony Jon Stewart claims Apple TV+ canceled his show because ‘they didn’t want me to say things that might get me in trouble’ – February 12, 2024
• Apple TV+ cancels ‘The Problem With Jon Stewart’ – October 19, 2023
• ‘The Problem with Jon Stewart’ on Apple TV+ is that it’s a flop – April 18, 2022
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Bitter tears are tastiest. His current show is a disaster too. Always has been a talentless hack, mtv game show loser.
He deserves to be under a bridge with a bag of d***s for company with the rest of the Nazi left trolls.
John Stewart’s problem is that he accepted Apple’s sponsorship of his show, then thought he could do whatever he wanted.
He’s better off back on the Daily Show, and so is Apple.
I’m leery of criticism that emanates from a single journalist. You’ve written hit-pieces before about John Stewart, with much ad-hominem and obvious personal bias. Anything you write about John Stewart is suspect, because we know you hate him.
It’s “Jon,” not “John,” bless your heart.
There remains no independent corroboration of Stewart’s claims.
(“Jon Stewart” is the stage name of Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz.)
The truth is, Apple wanted to control the content b/c of implications/criticism.
Making note of Stewart’s “stage name” in re: to given name is curious, at best. When ref’g others with a “stage name,” I’ll bet your not always so “conscientious”?
Btw, Matt Stoller, creator of BIG on Substack (Monopoly hawk) independently confirmed the claim.