Jon Stewart steps away from comedy gold as U.S. election heats up
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Jon Stewart steps away from comedy gold as U.S. election heats up
Heartbroken fans are wishing Jon Stewart a “jonvovage” on Twitter, but Donald Trump and the other 2016 U.S. presidential candidates may be breathing a sigh of relief. Stewart steps down from “The Daily Show” on Thursday after 16 years of biting political and media satire just as the presidential election campaign — a comedy gold mine — heats up. Trump, the billionaire businessman turned Republican Party White House contender, has become Stewart’s favorite target as his tenure on the popular Comedy Central program winds down.
Donald Trump is the candidate version of the hot dog-crust pizza. You don’t want it. You never ordered it. You can’t believe someone came up with it. But now it’s all you want to eat.
Jon Stewart
Stewart, who is widely credited with having transformed U.S. political comedy, has dubbed next year’s elections “Democalypse 2016." But 16 years of demolishing the rhetoric of political life and the 24/7 TV news cycle appears to have taken its toll. Stewart told Britain’s Guardian newspaper in April that he was weary after covering four previous elections, and "it didn’t appear that there was going to be anything wildly different about this one.”
