Thursday was Jon Stewart’s last episode of “The Daily Show” and 16 years worth of former correspondents and guests came to the Comedy Central’s World News Headquarters in New York to see him off.
Stewart began by saying even though Thursday was his last show, “The Daily Show” would still cover the Republican presidential debate with gusto. At first, however, he said he only had enough correspondents to cover the top three candidates.
That quickly changed.
First up were his current correspondents.
Jordan Klepper, Jessica Williams and Hasan Minhaj
Aasif Mandvi and Al Madgrigal
Then the contributors and former correspondents showed up.
Lewis Black and John Hodgman
Kristen Schaal
Steve Carrell, Nancy Carell and Samantha Bee
Vance DeGeneres, Mo Rocca and Dave Attell
Dan Bakkedahl and Matt Walsh
Larry Wilmore
Jason Jones
Josh Gad
Nate and Rob Corddry
Darth Vader
Bassem Youssef
Michael Che
Trevor Noah, next host of “The Daily Show”
Craig Kilborn, former host of “The Daily Show”
Olivia Munn
Rob Riggle
Watch Stewart’s correspondents say farewell, from Comedy Central, below:
Then Stewart’s enemies got in their shots.
Paul Brown, Arby’s CEO
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie
New York Rep. Charles Rangel
New York Sen. Chuck Schumer
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel
Morning Joe hosts Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough
CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer
Secretary of State John Kerry
South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham
Fox News host Bill O’Reilly
Arizona Sen. John McCain
The cameo-filled segment wound down with appearances by some of Stewart’s former correspondents and old friends.
Ed Helms
Wyatt Cenac
Gitmo
John Oliver
Stephen Colbert, starting his moving speech that made Jon cry
Watch Colbert’s touching send-off, from Comedy Central, below:
And then there was a correspondents group hug!
Cool that Craig Kilborn made an appearance. I was wondering if that might happen.
Are there any notable omissions? Former Daily Show people who should have been mentioned?
I wonder why the President wasn’t pictured.
Stacy Grenrock and Beth Littleford, though Beth was on the Kilborn show longer
Eh, Stewart may have added a little something to the discourse, he’s not anything to get all blubbery over.
He was kind of cool, sure, but he’s far from legendary or epic or a deeply ingrained part of our society that will be a huge loss to everyone.
JS is a mensch basically that has been doing menschy stuff for close to 2 decades and lets just say it, the mensch has worn off.
John Stewart can now move on to bigger and better things, like doing nothing because that is sooooooooo fun. Have fun Stewart and thanks for what little time you gave us.