Jon Stewart will remain part-time ‘Daily Show’ host through 2025

Jon Stewart volition stay the Monday nighttime big of Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show” passim 2025, the web announced.

Stewart, 61, volition besides stay successful his relation arsenic enforcement shaper for the amusement astatine large, with its squad of correspondents — including Jordan Klepper, Michael Kosta, Desi Lydic and Ronny Chieng — taking implicit hosting duties Tuesday done Thursday.

The show’s ratings person improved aft Stewart’s return, with its unrecorded occurrence aft the statement betwixt Donald Trump and Kamala Harris netting the amusement its champion audience-share numbers successful 7 years.

“I’ve genuinely enjoyed being backmost moving with the unthinkable squad astatine ‘The Daily Show’ and Comedy Central. I was truly hoping they’d let maine to bash each different Monday, but I’ll conscionable person to suck it up,” Stewart said successful a statement.

The web announced past week that the comedian would big “Indecision 2024: Nothing We Can Do About it Now,” a live, hour-long peculiar connected Election Day. The declaration hold volition find him staying connected to screen (at least) the archetypal twelvemonth of the adjacent statesmanlike administration.

“Jon’s incisive intellect and crisp wit marque him 1 of the astir important voices successful governmental and taste commentary today,” Paramount Global co-CEO Chris McCarthy said. “His quality to chopped done the sound and present clear-eyed insights is precisely what we request which is wherefore we are thrilled to person him starring The Daily Show for different year.”

Stewart had antecedently rejoined the amusement past winter with plans to big Monday editions done adjacent month’s statesmanlike election. That came aft Apple TV+ abruptly canceled “The Problem With Jon Stewart” successful Oct. 2023 and “The Daily Show” brought successful a fig of impermanent hosts, including Sarah Silverman and DL Hughley.

The Emmy- and Peabody-award-winning amusement precocious had interviews with Democratic vice statesmanlike nominee Tim Walz and writer Ta-Nehisi Coates.

Stewart archetypal hosted “The Daily Show” from 1996 until 2015. Successor Trevor Noah near the amusement successful 2022.