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Line 1: {{work}} {{outdated}} {{cleanup\|[[Jon Stewart]] redirects here. He has not been involved with ''The Daily Show'' ~~sine~~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.]] Line 10: 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 position has been ~~empty~~filled by weekly guest hosts since December 8, 2022, when [[Trevor Noah]] left the show. He took over in 2015, replacing [[Jon Stewart]] (who took over in 1999, replacing [[Craig Kilborn]]). The show has launched a few careers among its correspondents: [[Steve Carell]], [[Lewis Black]] and Ed Helms are successful alums, and [[Stephen Colbert]] received [[Spin-Off\|his own spinoff program]] called ''[[The Colbert Report]]'' (a parody of confrontational talk programs such as ''[[The O'Reilly Factor]]'') which became a runaway success. Two more ''Daily Show'' alums have since been given their own Comedy Central shows, ''[[Root of All Evil\|Lewis Black's The Root of All Evil]]'' and the critically acclaimed ''[[Important Things with Demetri Martin]]'' (hosted by former contributor [[Demetri Martin]]). The show's writing staff has also published two books in connection to the show, both parodies of high-school textbooks; they are ''[[America (The Book)\|America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide To Democracy Inaction]]'' from 2004 and ''[[Earth (The Book)\|Earth (The Book): A Visitor's Guide To The Human Race]]'' from 2010. 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. Line 91: * [[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)''' Okay, Sam, Sam, Sam... '''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]]. Line 478: == T - V == * [[Take That]]: Several times over, typically directed at various news networks for failing in the investigative portion of "investigative reporting." Among them are [[Fox News Channel]] (typical fodder for the show), followed by CNBC (over bad financial advice), and [[~~Cable News Network\|~~CNN]], for "Leaving it there". Jon's [http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-november-5-2009/the-11-3-project deconstruction of Glenn Beck] was absolutely hilarious. * And then [http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-march-18-2010/intro---progressivism-is-cancer he did it] [http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-march-18-2010/conservative-libertarian again.] Line 553: {{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]]!~~<br />~~ '''[[Statler and Waldorf\|Both]]''': [[Memetic Mutation\|Doh-ho-ho-ho-ho!]]}} {{reflist}} {{Thurber Prize for American Humor}} [[Category:{{PAGENAME}}]]▼ [[Category:Live-Action TV of the 2000s]] [[Category:~~The~~Live-Action ~~Nineties~~TV of the 2010s]] [[Category:Live-Action TV of the 2020s]] [[Category:Nonfiction Series]] [[Category:American Series]] [[Category:TV Series]] [[Category:Trope Overdosed]] {{DEFAULTSORT:Daily Show, The}} ▲[[Category:{{PAGENAME}}]]