He's sincere. A lot of people my age have fond memories of the Daily Show during some really dark times during the Bush Administration. But at the end of the day, he's a left liberal and really doesn't pretend to be anything else. I don't really think there's much of a market for liberal snark and civility of that sort as material conditions continue to deteriorate.
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He gave a medal to an azov nazi at disney world
The problem with Jon Stewart is he's controlled opposition and he's never gonna tell you to burn down the system that his brother, former COO of one of the NYSE branches, has played such a big part in.
He's a living relic of the Bush Administration and the cultural atmosphere at the time. He kind of burned out during the Obama administration and had brief nostalgic surge in popularity during the Trump years from people who wanted yet another liberal voice ripping into Trump.
I'll admit that I didn't think much of him during the Bush years but appreciated how he at least pushed back on Obama on some issues during his presidency. Every other liberal pundit just wouldn't do that and instead praised him for things Bush had been doing.
Nowadays he's kind of worn out his welcome and is only really beloved by Millennials that grew up with him during the 2000's. I don't think GenZ is as enamored with him but I could by wrong.
Remember the "Rally to Restore Sanity" and how they built up way too much support and momentum with it and had to tone it down and let it fizzle out? At least that's how I remember it. Stewart was is a very weird mood that day like he was totally over the whole thing.
american zelensky
I got off the bandwagon when they did that "Rally to Restore Sanity", because even my liberal ass thought it was fucking stupid
he was ok when he was criticizing Bush but you should grow up and move on from him.
Can you run for president under an assumed name?
Rafael Edward Cruz did.
Oh yea.
Utter fucking dog shit
I can't believe 200,000 people showed up for that dogshit rally
i went with my family lol. it was a lot of redditors.
lol, he has certainly built a brand, he should do a throwback era where he does the leather jacket dennis leary wannabe like in the 90s
I am glad we largely moved on from the "dude in leather jacket does stand-up" era.
but what will all the andrew dice clay fans do?
He sucks.
yeah he's sincere. that's the worst part.
A complete anachronism.
He was ok in The Faculty (1998)
That was my first exposure to him lol
A massive lib but he'd probably be better than half of the actual Democrats.
He's fired.
spoiler
For real though I have a soft spot for Jon Stewart and am actually 1 of 3 people in the world who enjoyed Irresistible. That said: I kinda agree with everyone else here. He's probably one of the best liberal voices out there in anything resembling the mainstream and certainly he hasn't fallen off anywhere nearly as bad as Colbert did...but that really just doesn't count for much anymore. The simple reality is that he is a die hard left leaning centrist liberal who probably has internalized horseshoe theory so much he can't be any other way. The best thing you can say about Stewart is that yes: he is sincere. He calls a spade a spade, says what he means and means what he says, and he doesn't bullshit you. That's laudable...but it doesn't make him right or mean he has any real insight into the current moment.
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Watery liberal
He's done a great service exposing the bullshit of the empire and our corrupt AF elections. He's held public offical's feet to the fire better than our own self serving media. He did the work hammering congress to get 
first responders health care. Over and over and over. Exposing a lot of horrible rot in congress while firefighters were dying of cancer or other terrible ailments.
His exposure of the money in elections was probably his One Good Shot against the establishment. They usually turn people or burn people at that point.
That awarding a Nazi at Disneyland was 
Respect a lot of his work, but I understand the One Good Shot rule, and President Stewart would not be The Daily Show Prime Stewart. I really would love to see him in the debates though. That would be hilarious.