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Jon Stewart to return as “The Daily Show” host — one day a week
Jon Stewart will return to “The Daily Show” for its upcoming season — hosting one day a week.
Stewart, who hosted the show for 16 years before stepping down in 2015, will serve as the Comedy Central show’s host on Monday nights, and will also be an executive producer. The Associated Press reports that Stewart is expected to start Feb. 12 and stay on the show through the 2024 election.
“Jon Stewart is the voice of our generation, and we are honored to have him return to Comedy Central’s ‘The Daily Show’ to help us all make sense of the insanity and division roiling the country as we enter the election season,” said Chris McCarthy, the president and CEO of Showtime/MTV Entertainment Studios, in a statement provided to the AP and other news outlets. “In our age of staggering hypocrisy and performative politics, Jon is the perfect person to puncture the empty rhetoric and provide much-needed clarity with his brilliant wit.”
Stewart alluded to his return on social media, writing that he had “decided to enter the transfer portal for my last year of eligibility.”
On Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday nights, “The Daily Show” correspondents will host the program, according to Variety, which also reported that current executive producer Jen Flanz will also remain on the show.
Stewart hosted “The Daily Show” from 1999 to 2015, taking over from original host Craig Kilborn. Since leaving the show, he has remained an executive producer on “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” and hosted a weekly show on Apple TV+ called “The Problem With Jon Stewart,” which ended in 2023, after two seasons.
Stewart has also been an outspoken advocate for 9/11 first responders and U.S. veterans, even speaking before Congress on multiple occasions.
In 2015, Trevor Noah became the new host of “The Daily Show.” Noah announced in September 2022 that he would step down from the program that year, setting off a search for a new host. Noah’s last episode aired in December 2022. In 2023, the show was hosted by a number of guests including Leslie Jones, Sarah Silverman and Chelsea Handler.
Comedy Central is owned by Paramount Global, which is also the parent company of CBS News.
The Associated Press contributed reporting.
NASA researchers combined years of data and new imaging techniques to learn more about a “tipped over” black hole that is moving in an unexpected way.
The black hole is located in a galaxy called NGC 5084. Researchers have been aware of the galaxy for years, NASA said in a news release.
New analysis techniques developed at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California helped researchers see four long plumes of plasma emanating from the galaxy. Most galaxies don’t have plumes, and when they do, only one or two are present. The plumes suggested the galaxy might house a supermassive black hole, NASA said. Spotting both pairs, which formed an “X” shape, led researchers to focus more on the area.
Using archived data from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array Telescope based in Chile, researchers found that the galaxy also had a “small, dusty inner disk” rotating at the center of the galaxy, again suggesting a black hole there. Even more surprisingly, both the disk and black hole were rotating at a 90-degree angle relative to the rest of the galaxy, meaning both features are essentially “lying on their sides,” NASA said.
NASA/STScI, M. A. Malkan, B. Boizelle, A.S. Borlaff. HST WFPC2, WFC3/IR/UVIS.
“It was like seeing a crime scene with multiple types of light,” said research scientist Alejandro Serrano Borlaff, who will also publish a paper about the discovery, in the news release. “Putting all the pictures together revealed that NGC 5084 has changed a lot in its recent past.”
It’s not clear what caused the change in the galaxy. It may have collided with another galaxy and formed a chimney of superheated gas, creating the X-shaped plasma plumes. Further research will have to be conducted to learn more about the circumstances.
“Detecting two pairs of X-ray plumes in one galaxy is exceptional,” said Pamela Marcum, an astrophysicist at Ames and co-author on the discovery, in the news release. “The combination of their unusual, cross-shaped structure and the ‘tipped-over,’ dusty disk gives us unique insights into this galaxy’s history.”
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