Jon Stewart Feels “Reinvigorated” By His Return To ‘The Daily Show’

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Jon Stewart walked away from The Daily Show in 2015 because he felt “burnt” but he now feels “reinvigorated” on his return.

Stewart hosts The Daily Show on Mondays, with the show’s news team including Ronny Chieng, Michael Kosta, Jordan Klepper and Desi Lydic hosting the other nights.

Stewart and The Daily Show correspondents were speaking at an FYC event as the Comedy Central series attempts to repeat its Emmy win last year. “I walked away 9 years ago because I was burnt.

But now I don’t feel that way. I feel reinvigorated; I’m with people that are unbelievably talented and dedicated, and what they talked about, in that morning meeting – people ask if you missed having a platform this and that – I didn’t miss anything but walking into the room and having those smart, funny people.” Stewart, who is also now exec producing the show, added that the show is a “ridiculous gift”. “We’re gonna allow you to say whatever the fuck you want to America and to an audience for 25-35 minutes a night and we have to whittle that down to something that looks effortless but isn’t – it’s sophisticated, but it has to be something that is worth your time.” He paid tribute to Chieng, Kosta, Klepper and Lydic, saying that being a correspondent is “one of the most difficult things you can do”. “You have to be able to do all these different things… you go into the world and do an improv scene with people who don’t know they’re in an improv scene,” he said. “What’s nice is these guys are such pros and have been doing it for so long, transitioning themselves into the host chair… I’ve worked through a lot of the sea-changes in the industry with people that believe that creators mean something and I’ve worked with other regimes where the talent