Comedy Central extends Jon Stewart's 'The Daily Show' run through 2026

Jon Stewart’s biting satire whitethorn person made his caller bosses squirm, but they went up and extended the comedian’s tally connected Comedy Central done December 2026.

The channel’s genitor company, Paramount, announced Monday that Stewart volition proceed to big “The Daily Show” connected Monday nights and service arsenic an enforcement shaper done the extremity of adjacent year.

Members of the show’s quality squad volition proceed to stock Tuesday-through-Thursday hosting duties. Terms of the declaration were not disclosed.

“Jon Stewart continues to elevate the genre helium created. His instrumentality is an ongoing committedness to the incisive drama and crisp commentary that specify The Daily Show,” Ari Pearce, Comedy Central’s manager, said successful a prepared statement. “We’re arrogant to enactment Jon and the bonzer quality team.”

Stewart’s declaration was re-upped astir 4 months aft Paramount-owned sister web CBS notified Stephen Colbert, who roseate to fame connected “The Daily Show,” that it was dumping his precocious nighttime amusement astatine the extremity of the season. The cancellation was revealed days aft Colbert lambasted a $16-million colony Paramount agreed to wage President Trump to extremity a suit implicit edits to “60 Minutes.” Colbert called the statement “a large abdominous bribe.”

Paramount settled the Trump suit to triumph support from the Trump medication of its merchantability to David Ellison’s Skydance Media and RedBird Capital Partners. CBS has said the crushed for Colbert’s cancellation was financial, not political, though galore radical person expressed doubts.

Ellison took ownership of Paramount successful August. Stewart has joked that he, too, mightiness beryllium tossed arsenic the institution tries to reposition itself to the governmental center.

Since taking implicit the media steadfast that besides includes MTV, BET, Nickelodeon and Hollywood-based Paramount Pictures movie studio, the institution has made large bets, including agreeing to wage $7.7 cardinal for rights to UFC fights and $1.25 cardinal implicit 5 years to Matt Stone and Trey Parker to proceed creating their “South Park” cartoon for Comedy Central and the Paramount+ streaming service. Ellison and his squad besides lured Matt and Ross Duffer, the duo down “Stranger Things,” from Netflix and paid $150 cardinal to bargain the Free Press and bring its co-founder, Bari Weiss, to the institution arsenic CBS News exertion successful chief.

Paramount besides signed a 10-year lease connected a movie and tv accumulation installation nether operation successful New Jersey.

Last week, the institution began a heavy circular of layoffs, cutting 1,000 employees with plans to terminate different 1,000 successful the coming weeks, successful an effort to trim its workforce by 10%. About 100 radical from CBS News were among the layoffs.

After a nine-year absence, Stewart returned arsenic a big successful February 2024. He had helmed the amusement for 16 years earlier taking a interruption successful 2015. His existent declaration was expiring.

The amusement was hosted by Trevor Noah until 2022, erstwhile helium stepped down. That prompted a rotation of impermanent hosts, including Kal Penn, Charlamagne tha God, Sarah Silverman and Michelle Wolf.

Last month, during a speech with the New Yorker astatine a taste festival, Stewart was asked whether helium mightiness instrumentality astir longer. “We’re moving connected staying,” Stewart told the New Yorker’s David Remnick.

The rotation of “The Daily Show” hosts besides volition see Ronny Chieng, Josh Johnson, Jordan Klepper, Michael Kosta and Desi Lydic with Troy Iwata and Grace Kuhlenschmidt.