After scuttling a months-long search for a new host, the Paramount Global network said it had enlisted Jon Stewart, who presided over the late-night mainstay’s most popular era, to serve as its host on Monday nights throughout the 2024 election cycle and to run the program. He is expected to oversee the program through 2025. Various “Daily Show” correspondents will host the program Tuesday through Thursday nights, and Jen Flanz, the current executive producer, will continue her duties on the show.
He was a hack at CNN. Jon Stewart may have gotten him fired, but you can’t seriously look at Tucker Carlson and say Jon ruined his career. Listen, I hate the man with a passion, but he’s living high on the hog.
Like I said, he ruined his career in the mainstream media, after which he did what so many people who couldn’t make it in the mainstream have done before him and went into the less prestigious right-wing propaganda industry where standards are lower if you’re willing to say abhorrent things. Tucker was indeed very successful at that second career and is a rich man (though he was already with the Swanson frozen food fortune) but I don’t think that invalidates the initial takedown.
If you’re a cook fired from a steakhouse downtown, and get hired at a cafe/restaurant near the town college’s campus, you haven’t changed careers. Someone’s opinion of the two restaurants doesn’t change that.