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{{cleanup|[[Jon Stewart]] redirects here. He has not been involved with ''The Daily Show'' since 2015. The person and the work need separate pages}}
[[File:DailyShow.jpg|frame|The title card from 1999 (after [[Craig Kilborn]] stopped hosting the show) to 2015 (when [[Trevor Noah]] started hosting the show.]]
{{quote|''"When news breaks, we fix it!"''}}
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Instead of a straight-up [[News Parody]], a la ''[[Saturday Night Live|Weekend Update]]'', the program merely relates the actual news in a humorous tone, with special attention paid to the hypocrisy and gaffes of politicians and public figures, as well as the reactions of major news shows (particularly 24hr news channels) which range from the theatrical to the absurd. Because it relates actual news, it can pass for an actual news program -- though you don't want to take the special correspondents seriously.
The main anchor
Before you dismiss it as silliness, they get some astonishingly important guests--Senator Kirsten Gillibrand ([[American Political System|D-NY]]), former Senator (and current{{when}} Secretary of State) [[Hillary Rodham Clinton]] (also D-NY), Representative [[Ron Paul]] (R-TX) (three times, most recently{{verify}} in 2011), former [[The Men of Downing Street|UK Prime Minister]] [[Tony Blair]], Senator John Kerry (D-MA) (when he was running for the U.S. Presidency in 2004), [[Barack Obama]] (ditto, 2008, and again in 2010 while sitting President), Senator John McCain (R-AZ) (many, many times, including 2008), then Vice President Joe Biden (in 2009), and even former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf ''while he was still president'' (who is not even the first sitting head of state to be interviewed), to name a few. Stewart himself has to constantly remind viewers that it's still just a "joke news show" whose information is one day out of date.
It can be [http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/videos.jhtml watched online for free] (if you're lucky). In Canada, it is available at [https://web.archive.org/web/20090221120516/http://watch.thecomedynetwork.ca/ the Comedy Network's site]. Just beware of [[Archive Panic]].
Not to be confused with ''[[The Daly Show]]''.
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** Subverted on [http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/mon-august-23-2010/the-parent-company-trap 8/23/2010], where Jon starts going into the [[Big No]], but the view doesn't change to the dramatic camera angle. He turns to a different camera to try again... and another... and another...
* [[Bodyguard Babes]]: After she defended her [[May-December Romance|much older husband]], [[Fox News Channel|Rupert Murdoch]], from a pie-throwing prankster, Jon treated Wendi Murdoch like this.
* [[Book and Switch]]: Too many examples to list, mainly that they're spoofing this trope.
* [[Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick]]: "Um, how was your weekend? Let's see... on Friday, I... got a haircut. Uh...''([[Beat]])'' called a guy a dick on national television..." [https://web.archive.org/web/20131014042500/http://www.spike.com/video-clips/7hirrh/jon-stewart-spins-his-crossfire-appearance Found here.]
* [[Breakout Character]]: [[Stephen Colbert]] started off as a Correspondent here.
* [[Brick Joke]]: While anything that can be used as such, IS used as such, on August 16, 2010, Jon Stewart told John Oliver that his "[[This Trope Is Bleep|F*** ing]] Stupid English Accent" was offensive. No points for guessing what the first thing out of [[Emma Thompson|Emma Thompson's]] mouth was when she came on for the interview at the end of the show.
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** [[New Meat|New correspondent]] and [[Twofer Token Minority]] (black and female) Jessica Williams was sent into a disaster zone for her first assignment, then became a hobo, and was ignored by a Fifties-style panel of all-male correspondents until she put on a mustache.
*** Later, she revealed that she used to be ''white'' before she went to college and, as Rick Santorum put it: "Was remade in President Obama's image."
== C - D ==
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* [[Censorship by Spelling]]: Subverted in a segment, when Samantha Bee has her young son standing right next to her (Take Your Child to Work Day) while talking about torture methods:
{{quote|'''Sam:''' When a bound and naked prisoner has electrodes attached to...
'''Jon:''' ''(interrupting)
'''Sam:''' Oh, I'm sorry. To his T-E-S-T-I-C-L-E-S... testicles.}}
* [[Chewing the Scenery]]: Jon can never seem to resist a good [[Skyward Scream]] or [[Big No]].
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* [[Flame War]]: The Even Stephven debates which at one point attempted to prove which religion was the right one by holding a "Smite-off" (praying to either God or Mohammad to smite the other Ste(v/ph)en).
* [[Flat What]]: In an interview with Barbara Walters, former GOP candidate Herman Cain said that, if offered a cabinet position, he would want to be Secretary of of Defense. Walters was so flabbergasted that she could only stammer out a '''''What?''''' This prompted Jon to show examples of people and comments that ''didn't'' faze her, including Syria's Bashar al-Assad saying that no government has ever killed non-deserving people.
* [[Follow the Leader]]: ''The Daily Show'' has spawned a number of similar shows in the Middle East, notably ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20110708055956/http://parazit-parazit.blogspot.com/ Parazit]'' [https://web.archive.org/web/20120509210902/http://www.theworld.org/2010/12/irans-daily-show/ in Iran] and ''[http://www.youtube.com/user/bassemyoussefshow The Bassem Youssef Show]'' [https://web.archive.org/web/20110609093641/http://www.onthemedia.org/transcripts/2011/04/15/03 in post-revolution Egypt]. Both show's hosts and producers [[Sincerest Form of Flattery|openly admit that they are attempting to replicate]] ''The Daily Show''.
* [[Food Porn]]: Darn near literally in [http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/tue-august-2-2011/parliament-slight one sketch].
* [[Foreshadowing]]:
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'''Aasif:''' I'm ''Asian'', Jon. I'm a ''ninja''!}}
* [[Interspecies Romance]]: John Oliver/Orangutan OTP!
* [[Irishman and a Jew]]: ''The Daily Show'' is headed up by Jon Stewart ([[Stage Names|born]] ''Jonathan Liebowitz''--and no, [[Do Not Call Me "Paul"|you're not allowed to call him that]]); its sister show, ''[[The Colbert Report]]'', stars [[Stephen Colbert]], who self-identifies as Irish-American, despite the French-sounding name. Like many other instances of such pairings, the Jewish half is [[Deadpan Snarker|sarcastic]] and exasperated with [[Crapsack World|a world gone mad]], while the Irish half is blustering and [[Ted Baxter|self-assured]], but [[Too Dumb to Live|oblivious to the problems around him]].
** Also happens during the many times Jon's good friend [[Denis Leary]] is on the show.
* [[Ironic Echo Cut]]: A staple of the show is Jon recapping the basics of a story and assuming a result, then cutting to a clip of a reporter or speaker saying the exact opposite.
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'''Stephen:''' ''I will have my zvengeance!''}}
* [[Short Title: Long Elaborate Subtitle]]: Many of the guests' books.
* [[Sound in a Jar]]: John Stewart swore into a veterans affairs swear jar; in a later episode, original airdate 5/19/2014, he opened the jar and (censored) profanity came out.
* [[Shout-Out]]: [http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/mon-january-4-2010/the-best-f--king-news-team-ever---tiger-woods--faith A truly hilarious one.] [[Two Words: Obvious Trope|Five words:]] {{spoiler|John Oliver as a [[Avatar|Na'vi]]}}.
** Jon's impression of Dick Cheney depicts him as Burgess Meredith's version of [[Batman (TV series)|The Penguin]].
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* [[Skyward Scream]]: A failed attempt can be seen [http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=149372&title=9/11-earwig here].
** Played straight [http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/mon-march-2-2009/cpac-after-party here.] [[The Khan|"KROOOOOOOOOHHHHHHNNNNNNNN!"]]
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20110322025246/http://www.hulu.com/watch/212809/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-thu-feb-3-2011 BEEEBEERRRRRR!!]
** Going back to the original instance of it on the show... he got in a proper [http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/tue-february-10-2004/the-wrath-of-khan KHAAAAAAN.]
* [[Sophisticated As Hell]]: John Oliver. A nod must be given to Toppington Von Monocle, who quoted [http://www.vroma.org/~hwalker/VRomaCatullus/016x.html Catullus 16] to disprove the notion that the Daily Show audience is uncouth.
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{{quote|'''Waldorf''': Hey, do you think we could get on this show?
'''Statler''': Hm. They only let Muppets on if they're in Guantatamo Bay... or Republicans!
'''Waldorf''': Uh... well, [[Take That|I best start packing for Cuba then]]!
'''[[Statler and Waldorf|Both]]''': [[Memetic Mutation|Doh-ho-ho-ho-ho!]]}}
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