‘The Daily Show’ Team Hopes Crazy Presidential Race Will Help Them To An Emmy Election Victory – Contenders TV: The Nominees

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Coming on the heels of their victory for Outstanding Talk Series at the Emmys held in January, The Daily Show is looking for more success even after the departure of host Trevor Noah for this crucial season, which is heavily focused on a presidential election that is turning out to be like no other.

It also is a season like no other for the show itself, which saw the return of Jon Stewart to the anchor chair on Mondays, rotating with several other hosts on other nights.

It is a format that seems to be working brilliantly in lieu of the single host the show has used since its inception. Joining me to talk about all of it at Saturday’s virtual Contenders Television: The Nominees event were director and supervising producer David Paul Meyer, supervising producer Elise Terrell and Daily Show news team member Troy Iwata.

Meyer, who also is nominated for his direction of the series, talked about why the show is still running on all cylinders. “It’s a great place to work because there’s so many people there who are all sort of performing at the top of their game — from the writers, the producers, the crew, our graphics team, our editors, post,” he said. “There’s like 150 people at the show, and everybody is sort of focusing on their process, whatever that thing may be, all treating it just as important as the next thing.