{"id":49537,"date":"2015-02-11T05:54:58","date_gmt":"2015-02-11T05:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/02\/11\/jon-stewart-will-be-heading-off-for-that-well-deserved-nap.html"},"modified":"2015-02-11T05:54:58","modified_gmt":"2015-02-11T05:54:58","slug":"jon-stewart-will-be-heading-off-for-that-well-deserved-nap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/02\/11\/jon-stewart-will-be-heading-off-for-that-well-deserved-nap.html","title":{"rendered":"Jon Stewart will be heading off for that well-deserved nap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stewart will be leaving &quot;The Daily Show&quot; later this year (his contract is up in the fall), which marks a sea change in comedy news even greater than the departure of Stephen Colbert (I expect some heavy drinking amongst Comedy Channel executives for a while).<\/p>\n<p>There will be plenty of time for accolades (and the inevitable brickbats) later, but I will certainly miss him.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"sm2wpreshared\">Originally shared by <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930'>+Les Jenkins<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>First Colbert and now Stewart? Well shit. There won&#39;t be any decent news reporting left on TV at this rate!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/style-blog\/wp\/2015\/02\/10\/jon-stewart-leaving-the-daily-show-this-year\/'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/DXNgMChHqv7DZwgU65_QuaznBV_K0zE1b-ReFlKtkFH2jKxgyz-n33T5jUyGwoyjDyc0OJblR70jfDahBaMLHADW_NQlVcdt-n-pgfBxSpv1mqFlNt9Pc5K4pMJ_N-GWlyqGjcFzA8Lf6AAtHZGWzOBRNTm0rg_jxiyF0kb6e9I-c6V4soQ=w506-h303-p' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/style-blog\/wp\/2015\/02\/10\/jon-stewart-leaving-the-daily-show-this-year\/'>Jon Stewart leaving &lsquo;The Daily Show&rsquo; this year<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nComedy Central confirmed the news on Tuesday night.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/iS3X5QSHBbA'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stewart will be leaving &quot;The Daily Show&quot; later this year (his contract is up in the fall), which marks a sea change in comedy news even greater than the departure of Stephen Colbert (I expect some heavy drinking amongst Comedy Channel executives for a while). There will be plenty of time for accolades (and the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/02\/11\/jon-stewart-will-be-heading-off-for-that-well-deserved-nap.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Jon Stewart will be heading off for that well-deserved nap&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":26442,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/16\/colbert-report-on-hiatus.html","url_meta":{"origin":49537,"position":0},"title":"Colbert Report on hiatus","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 16-Feb-12 1:45pm","format":false,"excerpt":"For a few days at least, due to an emergency in Stephen Colbert's family. 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