Jon Stewart was a terrible comedian and actor before he took over for Craig Kilborn as Comedy Central’s ‘The Daily Show’ host in 1999. In fact, that’s why he lobbied for Kilborn’s replacement, because his friends told him he was terrible at both.
Although Kilborn’s original show didn’t have a shred of political involvement, Stewart rocketed to superstardom when George W. Bush was elected the 43rd President of the United States because he piggy-backed on Bush’s every word. Stewart’s anti-conservative approach also made him super rich.
But then Stewart retired before the 2016 campaign season because it was too much for him, or so he claims, but others felt that the liberal agenda was clearly dying. And if HBO’s cancellation of a new Stewart-produced project is any indication, it’s obviously failing even harder.
Breitbart reports:
HBO has discarded plans for an animated political comedy series from former Daily Show host Jon Stewart.
In a statement Wednesday, the premium cable network said that technical difficulties had derailed the untitled project, which Stewart had been working on since at least the summer of 2016.
“HBO and Jon Stewart have decided not to proceed with a short-form digital animated project,” the network said in a statement.
“We all thought the project had great potential but there were technical issues in terms of production and distribution that proved too difficult given the quick turnaround and topical nature of the material.”
Stewart signed an exclusive four-year production deal with HBO in November 2015, shortly after retiring from his 16-year stint as host of Comedy Central’s Daily Show.
The network said Wednesday that it is currently developing other projects with Stewart.
The scrapped project was described as an animated parody of a cable news network, which would have been delivered over the Internet and would have allowed Stewart to comment on day-to-day political news in real time.
At the Television Critics Press Association summer tour last year, HBO programming president Casey Bloys described the project as being an ‘Onion-like portal.’
The network had initially hoped to have the new project in production during the 2016 presidential race.
The news of the cancellation comes as Stewart’s former late-night colleagues Stephen Colbert and Samantha Bee have seen interest in their programs spike under President Donald Trump’s administration.
Colbert’s Late Show on CBS earned its first total viewer victory over NBC and Jimmy Fallon’s Tonight Show this season for the first time since 1995.
But Mashable had a different theory on why Stewart’s show went kaput.
This is not a joke. ?https://t.co/JxcJqKDP7Z
— Mashable (@mashable) May 24, 2017
Film critic, Alan Zilberman, hit the nail on the head with his tweet about the cancellation of the fated show.
I mean, I like Jon Stewart, but HBO already has one aging smug liberal comedian too many https://t.co/pBq22sG0En
— Alan Zilberman (@alanzilberman) May 24, 2017
Recently, Stewart, Samantha Bee and John Oliver all appeared on Stephen Colbert’s The Late Show so that they could self-congratulate each other for no apparent reason. But it was awkward because Stewart was still trying to assert his dominance, consistently interrupting them with a “better story” — and it was painfully annoying and classless.
Just stay home Stewart, nobody wants you.
They can take Samantha Bee off the air, too. She’s nothing more than a shrill foul-mouthed talentless cry-baby.
To be honest I never heard of her.
Her show is Full Frontal
You forgot Canadian citizen that has no right to comment on anything in america. Besides the fact that 95% of everything she says was made up by retards and believe by millennials. As for Jon Stewart the less we have of liberals like him on tv the better
“…Canadian citizen that has no right to comment on anything in america” — why not?
PS “America” should be capitalized (just like “Canadian”).
Any citizen of any country has a right to an opinion about America and hopefully, the freedom of speech to state it.
We crushed you liberal losers ha ha ha loser ha ha ha
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hate that loser.
They’re all just falling over each other with Political nonsense that isn’t funny anymore. It’s time to either turn them off completely, or boycott their sponsors, and let the sponsors know!! They are going beyond the pale now!! The President hasn’t done a THING to them, yet they do these stupid stunts like Kathy did, to imitate ISIS, then plays the victim card. Colbert IS and always WILL BE an overpaid A-S!! This is the first time I’ve ever heard of Samantha Bee, and the name alone told me everything I NEED to know about her!! Humor is officially DEAD in America!!
I keep saying.
They Lost, We Won and are pulling away further by the day.
Just ask USAA, or take a look at cars.com’s stock quote. – Dropped from 28 to 25 in 4 days.
We are even stating to the LGBTQRST Alphabets back in the closet where they belong.
MAGA!
USAA lost my accounts and life insurance last month
I think his last name is something like lubitwas, I don’t recall, I don’t remember exactly if I ever watched this man.
No loss here. Just another liberal has been.
ANOTHER D E A D LIBERAL… WONDERFUL NEWS!!!
It’s about time these liberal haters are having to answer, for all the misinformation, and hate that they spew.
ABC wasn’t that a song we sang in pre-K Since Shondra Rimes shot her mouth and started Flapping her gums no Greys Anatomy. She killed off everyone good except for Ellen Pompeo so buh bye
I think you are confusing critical thinking and reasoning, with ad hominem.