There’s one late night host who is not departing the stage.
Jon Stewart will remain a one-day-a-week host with “The Daily Show” through the end of 2026, Comedy Central announced on Monday.
Mr. Stewart’s contract was set to expire in December, though he expressed publicly last month that he wanted to keep hosting the show.
Since his return to “The Daily Show” in February 2024, ratings for the show have gone up, particularly on Mondays when Mr. Stewart mans “The Daily Show” desk. (Other “Daily Show” correspondents, including Ronny Chieng, Josh Johnson and Jordan Klepper, host the show the rest of the week.)
“The renewal is a win for audiences, for Comedy Central and for all our programming partners,” Ari Pearce, the head of Comedy Central, said in a statement.
The late-night landscape has shifted drastically since Mr. Stewart’s return to “The Daily Show.” Stephen Colbert’s “The Late Show” will go off the air in May 2026, and CBS is getting out of the genre altogether. ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” remains on the air — even after he was taken off the air by the network in September for nearly a week — though Mr. Kimmel has repeatedly expressed over the years that he may hang it up at some point soon. “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” and Seth Meyers’s NBC late night show remain on the air.
John Koblin covers the television industry for The Times.
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