Kicking off nine months of pre-election Mondays in satisfactory but safe fashion, the Emmy-winning icon made familiar jokes about Joe Biden and Donald Trump's age, as well as his own.
in time to cover a presidential election in which neither major party has been able to find candidates to replace Joe Biden or Donald Trump, the Comedy Central series kicked off a run of fresh episodes with an interim, part-time new host…to be an act of triumph or a sign of desperation — he’ll be doing Monday night shows until November’s election — the venerable performer slid back into the hosting chair like no time had passed since his August 2015 departure.
As for the actual text of the monologue, it wasn’t appreciably different from a Noah monologue. One of my least favorite comment section narratives after Noah announced his exit was that Noah was a liberal ideologue who lost viewers accustomed to Stewart’s more even-handed approach. This is ridiculous, of course. You can prefer Stewart’s general mien to Noah’s, prefer his punchlines and cadences, welcome the return of Stewart’s greater comic intensity to Noah’s deceptively sing-song joviality.
And there was well-placed anger, like his response to Kari Lake insisting Trump wasn’t an old man with, “He’s an old man. He’s objectively an old man! On a human scale. Trump is objectively old. If he was a tortoise, I would tell him, as a tortoise at 77, ‘Oh, young man, go off and enjoy college.’ But he’s not a tortoise. He’s not a tortoise.”
The host and the writers actually saved the sharpest Stewart-directed barbs for the series’ deep reservoir of correspondents in the episode’s second segment. Stewart introduced lapsedaudiences to “the best f***ing news team going,” including Desi Lydic and Michael Kosta interviewing Democratic and Republican voters from opposite sides of the same diner, before kicking to Dulcé Sloan in the parking lot lamenting that this entire election is just a “reboot.
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