{"id":49538,"date":"2015-02-10T23:49:52","date_gmt":"2015-02-11T06:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/02\/10\/jon-stewart-actually-announcing-his-retirement-from-the-daily-show.html"},"modified":"2015-02-10T23:49:52","modified_gmt":"2015-02-11T06:49:52","slug":"jon-stewart-actually-announcing-his-retirement-from-the-daily-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/02\/10\/jon-stewart-actually-announcing-his-retirement-from-the-daily-show.html","title":{"rendered":"Jon Stewart actually announcing his retirement from &quot;The Daily Show&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All I can think of going through his head is &#8230; &quot;I&#39;ll be damned if I&#39;m going to trudge through another election cycle &#8230;&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Seventeen years &#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/theconcourse.deadspin.com\/watch-jon-stewart-tell-a-shocked-audience-hes-leaving-t-1685124303'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/Fnv6vYJfaSVc-M2bMFOxFEOQB4FJMZt9dwlJ-S7D4LOQpA_YtghrQfmuGxwFKv4O7xppw3Bgrqzah0t62QVRLIoQ_gbdY_g27ivTOrsxBi5iCsBKaPHLExcmL9XE9My234Wmi9r18A=w506-h303' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/theconcourse.deadspin.com\/watch-jon-stewart-tell-a-shocked-audience-hes-leaving-t-1685124303'>Watch Jon Stewart Tell A Shocked Audience He&#8217;s Leaving The Daily Show<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nJon Stewart&#8217;s plans to end his long run as host of Comedy Central&#8217;s The Daily Show emerged earlier today&mdash;he even acknowledged that viewers already knew something his live audience at the taping didn&#8217;t&mdash;but watching him make the announcement really makes the news seem real. Here&#8217;s how Stewart delivered the news.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/Z5uVVE6J9YH'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All I can think of going through his head is &#8230; &quot;I&#39;ll be damned if I&#39;m going to trudge through another election cycle &#8230;&quot; Seventeen years &#8230; Watch Jon Stewart Tell A Shocked Audience He&#8217;s Leaving The Daily Show Jon Stewart&#8217;s plans to end his long run as host of Comedy Central&#8217;s The Daily Show &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/02\/10\/jon-stewart-actually-announcing-his-retirement-from-the-daily-show.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Jon Stewart actually announcing his retirement from &quot;The Daily Show&quot;&#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_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_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-49538","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":30657,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/17\/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-before-it-was-jon-stewarts-daily-show.html","url_meta":{"origin":49538,"position":0},"title":"The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, before it was Jon Stewart&#39;s Daily Show","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 17-Oct-12 11:42am","format":false,"excerpt":"The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, before it was Jon Stewart's Daily ShowI actually enjoyed TDS in the Kilborn era, though not as much as I enjoy it now.I'm just trying to understand why Stewart was trying to look like Tony Stark.(h\/t +Les Jenkins\u00a0, and via\u00a0http:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/benjaminj4\/the-most-awkward-daily-show-interview-in-history-5mxu) Google+: View post on\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":23634,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/11\/jon-stewart-the-mercy-rule-and-the-oops-moment.html","url_meta":{"origin":49538,"position":1},"title":"Jon Stewart, the Mercy Rule, and the &#8220;Oops&#8221; Moment","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 11-Nov-11 1:26pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Jon Stewart on The Daily Show has just way too much fun with the CNBC GOP Debate in general and Rick Perry's \"Oops\" Moment in particular. 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