History Series / TheDailyShowWithJonStewart

* MisplacedNationalism: Made fun of a few times. The 2010 World Cup has this as a RunningGag between Jon and John Oliver regarding the performance of the US and English teams, usually ending with John Oliver dropping a ClusterFBomb after Jon's parting shot against England.

** [[http://www.thedailyshow.com/collection/421106/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-democalypse-2012/419418 On Romney leading up to the election:]] "It's like he's Charlie from ''FlowersForAlgernon'' and the serum is wearing off."

* JewsLoveToArgue: Often joked about, and once they captured empirical evidence on camera. It's also the basis for Jon's [[DeadpanSnarker sarcastic retort]] to the notion of [[ConspiracyTheory a Jewish banking conspiracy]]: [[SelfDeprecation Jews can't even agree on where to go for dinner, let alone how to control the world's money]].

Stewart himself took over from [[ThePeteBest Craig Kilborn]] in 1999 and turned the show into a household name,[[note]]Stewart turned the show into the premier news/political satire show in the world, with "Indecision 2000" cited as the moment when the show really came into its own[[/note]] but it's also launched a few careers among its correspondents. Creator/SteveCarell and Ed Helms are successful alums, and Creator/StephenColbert got his own {{spinoff}} program called ''Series/TheColbertReport'' (a parody of confrontational talk programs such as ''Series/TheOReillyFactor'',) which became a runaway success leading him to be picked [[Series/TheLateShowWithStephenColbert to take over]] for Creator/DavidLetterman. Two more ''Daily Show'' alums have since been given their own Comedy Central shows, Creator/LewisBlack's ''Series/RootOfAllEvil'' and the critically acclaimed ''Series/ImportantThingsWithDemetriMartin''.[[note]]The other major ''Daily Show'' correspondent now with his own show is Creator/JohnOliver, whose ''[[Series/LastWeekTonightWithJohnOliver Last Week Tonight]]'' airs on Creator/{{HBO}}.[[/note]] The show's writing staff has also published two books in connection to the show, both parodies of high-school textbooks; they are ''[[Literature/AmericaTheBook America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide To Democracy Inaction]]'' from 2004 and ''[[Literature/EarthTheBook Earth (The Book): A Visitor's Guide To The Human Race]]'' from 2010.

** John Oliver's sendoff. While Oliver isn't one who has the stereotypical "manly" look, as a Brit he was definitely an example of StiffUpperLip, but after the montage of his best moments on the show shown in his last episode, he was visibly teary-eyed.

* {{Montage}}: In honor of on's 17 years as host. So far the themes have been [[BrilliantButLazy "I didn't actually read/watch/listen to whatever you're promoting"]] and [[{{Hypochondria}} "Jon being ill (or thinking he is)"]].

* MrFanservice: In a [[http://www.cc.com/video-clips/5s3orv/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-state-of-the-union-2011---correspondent-rebuttal 2011 episode,]] Creator/LarryWilmore reminds modern viewers what Jon looked like back in 1999. Rowr.

* {{Muppet}}s:

* ManlyTears: The first episode after 9/11. Scientifically proven to be impossible to watch without [[TearJerker joining in]].

* AdamWesting: Happens a lot with celebrity guests. Keith Olbermann does [[http://www.cc.com/video-clips/k40xmh/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-tech-talch---chatroulette a great one]] in the piece on Chat Roulette.

* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking:
** In the [[http://www.cc.com/video-clips/s1g29a/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-american-apparently 5/5/10 episode.]] [[CaptainObvious "I'm beginning to think 'the American people' is a meaningless phrase.]] ...And as such, perhaps should be struck from public utterance, along with other such false monolithic projections such as 'the Founders intended', 'our children deserve better', and [[BlatantLies 'nobody doesn't like Sara Lee'."]]

* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: [[http://www.cc.com/video-clips/5ykf4p/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-islamophobiapalooza Squirrel!]]

* AuthorFilibuster: The "Meet Me at Camera Three" segments.

* BackForTheFinale: Most of the corespondents from the past 16 years returned on Jon Stewart's last show. [[spoiler: Including Craig Kilborn.]]

** As of August 4th, 2010, Congressional Republicans voted against a bill giving aid to rescuers of 9/11 victims. [[http://www.cc.com/video-clips/j5ujut/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-i-give-up---9-11-responders-bill This was his response.]]
*** In his last show of 2010 (December 16), [[http://www.cc.com/video-clips/i58xmo/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-worst-responders he dedicated the entire show to this issue]]
*** The bill was finally passed about a week later, with many crediting that episode as a major reason for it happening.
*** Stewart's continued focus on the issue also lead to his being appointed to the board of directors for the National 9/11 Memorial in late January of 2011.
** As a New Yorker, Jon takes his pizza [[http://www.cc.com/video-clips/0ect4f/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-me-lover-s-pizza-with-crazy-broad very seriously]].
*** The discussion of Chicago's deep dish pizza being better than New York style pizza led to [[http://www.cc.com/video-clips/8o83j9/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-tower-record a very colorful rant]].

--->'''Jon''': ''in high pitched voice'' Ooooh! Racist jokes, porn, and bestiality! I was told this was going to be a Tea party! I didn't know they fucked horses at tea parties!

* BigNo: [[http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=189149&title=gaffe-in Just one example]].
** [[http://www.cc.com/video-clips/nka3cd/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-the-parent-company-trap Here]] Jon starts going into the BigNo, but the view doesn't change to the dramatic camera angle. He turns to a different camera to try again... and another... and another...

** Sasha Baron Cohen showed up in character as [[http://www.cc.com/video-clips/7raady/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-admiral-general-aladeen Admiral General Haffaz Aladeen]] from ''Film/TheDictator''. This character was a pastiche of Middle Eastern tyrants. He took a page from Muammar Gaddafi's infamous Amazonian Guard and brought two quite lovely BodyguardBabes along with him.
* BookEnds: On John Oliver's first show during Stewart's time filming a movie, [[http://www.cc.com/video-clips/vqr3nx/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-good-news--you-re-not-paranoid---america-betrayed the entire cast of correspondents trashed him]]. Later, on his last show [[http://www.cc.com/video-clips/fwm1sy/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-one-crazy-summary---correspondents--send-off they still bashed him. And Wyatt Cenac and Rob Riggle came back to insult him as well.]]
* BrainBleach: In response to an argument against gay marriage that it's not how nature intended, John Oliver plays a clip of a dog humping another dog in the face. He then informs his viewers that they will never be able to unsee it.

-->'''Jon:''' I'm gonna have to actually get that image removed by laser from my brain.

* BreadEggsBreadedEggs: Gay marriage! Pot! Gay pot marriage!

* BreadEggsMilkSquick: "Um, how was your weekend? Let's see...on Friday, I...got a haircut. Uh...''({{Beat}})'' [[http://www.cc.com/video-clips/mr122o/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-your-show-blows called a guy a dick on national television..."]]

** F*** You, John Oliver

* ButtMonkey: Stewart is routinely insulted and abused by correspondents (and occasionally guests).
** John Oliver (of TheBugle fame) gets this as well (usually when Stewart reminds him about his visa expiring). See the example under {{Pirates}}.

** [[NewMeat New correspondent]] and TwoferTokenMinority (black and female) Jessica Williams was sent into a disaster zone for her first assignment, then became a hobo, and was ignored by a Fifties-style panel of all-male correspondents until she put on a fake mustache.
*** Later, she revealed that she used to be ''white'' before she went to college and, as Rick Santorum put it: "Was remade in President Obama's image."

* CallBack: Jon [[http://www.cc.com/video-clips/w4khnz/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-rainbow-disconnection---joe-biden-voices-support-for-gay-marriage takes appropriate safety precautions]] after his previous [[AGlassInTheHand unfortunate encounters]] [[TheShowMustGoOn with broken glass.]]
** Months after taking Creator/DonaldTrump to task for serving chain pizza to a non-New Yorker (UsefulNotes/SarahPalin) and eating his with a fork, he offers to eat pizza with a fork alongside Donald Trump if he agrees to reenter the Presidential race for the benefit of bored comedians.

* CanadaEh: Samantha Bee, whose Canadian-ness has often been fodder for jokes. Her equally-Canadian husband, Jason Jones, doesn't get anywhere near this kind of treatment.
** Sam's entries in ''America (The Book)'' are parodies of excessive Canadian politeness, usually prefaced by the header "Would You Mind If I Told You How We Do It In Canada?" and full of apologies.

* CatchPhrase: "BOOM!" when Jon makes a TakeThat joke.

*** Don't forget the air guitar!

** ({{Beat}}) "...Okay two things."
** (dreamily) "Go On..." whenever someone's [[DiggingYourselfDeeper digging themselves deeper]].
** (''high-pitched sing-song'') "Awkward..."
** (whenever the audience laughs at a segment title card) "You like that?"

-->'''Jon:''' ''(interrupting)''' Okay, Sam, Sam, Sam...

* ChewingTheScenery: Jon can never seem to resist a good SkywardScream or BigNo.

* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: If a correspondent just isn't well-liked by the audience, they get subtly phased out instead of the usual [[PutOnABus official send-off]] that more popular correspondents get.
* ChromaKey: Combined with StockFootage to put correspondents "live at the scene". The background once notably changed in the middle of one of these sketches.

* ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve: In the [[http://www.cc.com/video-clips/l8gl21/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-health-con1---the-mediscarening 3/17/2010 episode]], John Oliver frantically implores Jon and the studio audience to do this to save the life of [[ItMakesSenseInContext a rose named Reagan, the final breath of American freedom.]]

* ClusterFBomb: Done quite humorously while discussing [[http://www.cc.com/video-clips/a4q4bd/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-speech-therapy Obama's first State of the Union address]].
** Not to mention his tirade towards Creator/{{Fox News|Channel}}: "Go fuck yourself! Go fuck yourself! Go fuck yourself! Go fuck yourself! Go fuck yourself! Go fuck yourself!..." Etc. ''With a gospel choir backing him.''
*** Repeated for the terrorists that threatened the creators of WesternAnimation/SouthPark.

* ComplainingAboutShowsYouDontWatch: Robert Novak, frequent target of {{Take That}}s due to his role in the Valerie Plame affair, was asked in an interview whether he'd ever seen ''The Daily Show'' or any of its material on him; he said no, then promptly went on to describe Jon as "self-righteous" and a "phony" and so forth. The old incident of Geraldo Rivera ranting to Bill O'Reilly about how TDS and TCR "exist in a small little place where they count for nothing" is most likely also an example, since he cited their supposed use of [[Series/AmericasFunniestHomeVideos "video of old ladies slipping on ice and people laughing,"]] which are not exactly Stewart and Colbert's stock in trade. (We would say these were in-universe examples, except y'know, it happened in ''[[RealLife this]]'' [[RealLife universe]]).
** Jon Stewart also lampshaded this in regards to ''Film/{{Noah}}'', with FOX complaining about it using the word "Creator" instead of "God". Jon Stewart points out that in the movie, Noah's son says that the Creator is God. It is then taken a step further with some of their complaints showing that they must not have read [[Literature/TheBible the source material]] either.

* CosmicPlaything: John Oliver somehow turned into this when he filled in for Stewart in 2013. He expected to have a quiet Summer filled mostly with jokes about his Britishness. First day of guest hosting: the NSA spying scandal broke out. Then after weeks of other major political news stories occurring during his tenure[[note]]and on the day George Zimmerman was found not guilty of murdering Trayvon Martin[[/note]], the studio loses power.
-->'''John Oliver''' (to camera): "Sorry Jon, I've broken the show."
** Ultimately, Oliver got the last laugh, as his time hosting the show was so well-received that he was able to land his own show on HBO.

* {{Crossover}}: Applied liberally during the writer's strike, culminating in a brawl between Stewart, Creator/StephenColbert, and Conan O'Brien.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: A good portion of the show could be construed as cutting, but pretty average, criticism of subject X. But, interviewees beware: if you try to weasel out of, [[BlatantLies outright deny]] or [[TemptingFate fire back at]] the allegations raised, you will get ''schooled''.
** With elements of BadassBookworm, AwesomenessByAnalysis and BewareTheSillyOnes. Yes. He has read your damn book. He knows what you've said. He also knows what you said three weeks ago. And what you said to the NRA in 2003. And where you worked when you said it. So answer the damn question.
*** Stephen Colbert noted in a ''Rolling Stone'' interview that he doesn't understand where Jon finds the time to do it, but yes, he reads EVERY book that people are there to promote on his show... every word. Colbert notes that obviously this gives Jon a formidable advantage in an interview, as most people do not expect the host to have gotten past the summary or "cliff notes" that a staffer gave them.
*** One of the rare exceptions was when Jon was interviewing Jeremy Scahill for his book ''Blackwater'' (about the [[PrivateMilitaryContractors PMC]]), Jon clearly ''hadn't'' read the book and the interview came off confrontational, while failing to discuss the novel's main themes [[note]]ie. the limited government oversight on hired contractors in the Middle East[[/note]]. Fast-forward a week, where Jon clearly ''had'' read it in the interim, owned up to his mistake and dedicated a segment showing just how badly he'd dropped the ball.

*** It also happened that all the terrible things surrounding Blackwater began to appear in the news which completely validated Scahill's argument.

--> "The bottom line: don't pick a fight with Jon Stewart. ''Do not do it. You cannot win.''"
* CuteKitten: [[http://www.cc.com/video-clips/vu3r8v/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-clusterf--k-to-the-poor-house---wall-street-bailout This video]] has Jon show a kitten's adorably despondent reaction to the bank bailout - just 'cause.

--> '''Jon:''' Very cute. The kittens lack the capacity to understand the horror of this story.
*** PlayfulOtter: In fact, kittens playing isn't enough to take the whole of the scandal so a baby otter is thrown in too:
----> '''Jon:''' Aw, now the baby otter is playing with a kitten.

---> '''Jason Jones''':Plus, what is with that ridiculous disguise? I mean, come on. I'm surprised he didn't put on a cape and tie [Anna Nicole Smith] to a railroad track!
* DeadpanSnarker: Almost the entire staff.

* DespairEventHorizon: When Congressional Republicans voted down a bill that would give healthcare to those to who helped out recovery efforts during 9/11. Aside from being legitimately pissed off about it, the whole spiel was detailed in a segment called, "I GIVE UP."
** The bill was finally passed near the end of December 2010. A week earlier, Jon had four 9/11 responders as guests on the show (and the first segment was another lambasting of Congress for still failing to get it passed, while the primary guest was Republican Mike Huckabee, who also agreed the bill should be passed, going against the majority of his party), who all gave their stories. [[http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/27/business/media/27stewart.html?_r=2 Many major sources credited Jon and that episode]] for being influential in spurring congress to finally get it done.

* {{Detournement}} / TheTag: "And here it is, your Moment of Zen."
** Since the election of Barack Obama, a common gag has been showing the blatant hypocrisy of Fox News by airing their defenses of George Bush immediately before/after the exact same circumstances with a Democratic president (ie. denouncing protests as "temper tantrums" in 2004 yet calling them "inspiring" in 2008). He also does so to the other news networks, but they don't have a Fair And Balanced slogan to pin against them, so it happens less often.

* DoubleEntendre: the "Jon Stewart [insert double entendre such as "Touches Kids" here]" segments.

*** He later asks them to change this when he's asking the same of Glenn Beck to come on. First they make an offer to take some thing off his chest into "Drop a Load on Jon Stewart", then an offer to get to know each other becoming (despite [[LampshadeHanging Jon's hopes]]) "Two Established Television Personalities Penetrate Each Other On The Daily Show While People Watch".

-->"Jon Stewart Tries to Figure Out What He's Allowed to Put in His Mouth"

** 4 February 2014 has a threefer. "Jon Stewart Checks Out Congress's Sausage," "Jon Stewart Pokes Around Congress's Back Door," and "Jon Stewart Rectally Penetrates Congress's A$$hole." He decides to go with the first one.

* FauxtasticVoyage: A gag using the ChromaKey.
** In one memorable example, two correspondents are supposedly broadcasting from Iraq. The one who is actually in Iraq demonstrates that his (real) footage is being used as the fake background for the other's shoot by waving his arms.

* GagDub: Whenever you hear a voiceover, it's fake.
** By the same standard, if Jon has to [[NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer strenuously emphasize that the voice-over is real]], [[PoesLaw it is quite real, no matter how unbelievable it might be.]]

* GratuitousNinja: In a sketch introducing the newest correspondent, Aasif appears from behind a piece of greenscreen down to his waist.

** "Welcome to the Daily Show with Jon Stewart. [[http://www.cc.com/video-clips/2q3qll/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-colbert-hosts- Ironically enough, I'm Stephen Colbert.]]"
** Jon Stewart is perhaps one of the most dedicated news anchors on TV. In one instance, despite ''losing his voice'' for three days, [[HeroicSpirit he refused to]] ''[[HeroicSpirit not]]'' [[HeroicSpirit appear on the show]], even though he had to speak up (and therefore lengthened his recovery by abusing his already abused vocal cords).
*** And got extra jokes out of it, too. [[http://www.cc.com/video-clips/lbds0i/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-dance-dance-resolution "It's as if Harvey Fierstein had hosted the Daily Show!"]]

* GrandFinale: While the show will keep going, Jon's depature from the show after nearly twenty years on the program (they alternated between calling it 16 and a half and 17 years in the run-up to his final show) was treated as this. With [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters almost every correspondant]] (and even the show's original ''HOST'') coming back along with a multitude of guests and even some of his [[FriendlyEnemy on-screen and real-life on-air competition]] chiming in to give Jon a send-off unlike anything seen since Carson left the Tonight Show back in the late 80s. The whole show was capped off by the surviving members of ''Bruce Springsteen And the E Street Band'' playing Jon off in what was called ''his'' moment of zen. The entire crowd was pretty much invited to come onto the set to share in the farewell during this. If the show had legitimately ended with this broadcast, it would have probably been picture perfect in terms of how to end a LongRunner like the Daily Show.

** Again on August 6, 2015:
--> '''Mayor Rahm Emanuel''': What has nine-and-a-half fingers and won't miss you at all? This guy!

-->'''Jon''' (as Obama): Now, who am I forgetting? I've given a speech, I've ragged on Bush, the Democrats, the Supreme Court, the Republicans... Oh, I know! Who has two thumbs and should go fuck himself?
-->'''Obama''': I take my share of the blame for not explaining it more clearly to the American people...
-->'''Jon''': It's this guy!
* HeartbreakAndIceCream: When Creator/RobertPattinson appeared on the show after Creator/KristenStewart was caught cheating on him (his appearance had been scheduled long before the incident), Jon pulls out 2 pints of Ben & Jerry's. [[http://www.cc.com/video-clips/4u1l1e/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-robert-pattinson Unfortunately, it melted.]]

* {{Homage}}: Jon riffed on [[UsefulNotes/WinstonChurchill Churchill]] while talking about his ''Crossfire'' appearance: "Tomorrow, I will go back to being funny, and [[http://www.cc.com/video-clips/mr122o/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-your-show-blows your show will still blow."]]
* HostileShowTakeover: On Election Night 2008, Stewart and Colbert co-hosted a live show reporting on the results (in between humorous bits and interviews, of course). After Ohio went to Obama, it became obvious he was going to win the election. The Daily Show's two black correspondents, Creator/LarryWilmore and Wyatt Cenac, took this as a sign that they could do "whatever they want", and tried to host ''The Daily Show'' and ''Series/TheColbertReport'', respectively. It was over by the commercial break.
** Kristen and Samantha also once tried to take over the show when Jon went to the toilet, because they felt it was time for a female host.

** The end of his Special Comment about KeithOlbermann, accusing him of name-calling: "And as we both know, ''[[MemeticMutation Sir]]'', that's ''my'' thing!"

** When John Oliver first starts hosting the show during Jon Stewart's absence, [[CanadaEh Samantha Bee]] expresses outrage at a "godforsaken foreigner" being selected for the position over her.

* ImplausibleDeniability: They get sitting heads of state, major government officials, Hollywood stars, scientists at the top of their field, and ''actual news anchors'' as guests. They've earned Emmys and Peabody Awards(!), and can get celebrities to drop by unannounced for a cameo and good joke. Their news is at ''least'' as insightful as the regular stuff put out by the networks and the 24-hour news channels (though people like Fareed Zakaria and Christiane Amanpour are probably better). But as he said when it was still true (and people were even treating the show as serious news), "The show leading into mine is puppets making crank phone calls."
* IncrediblyLamePun: He warned the Audience after they laughed at this that, because it was positive reinforcement, he would use more of these in the future.

* InformedJudaism: Part of Jon Stewart's material since his stand-up career, with a combination of pride in his Jewishness and SelfDeprecation at being not very good at it.
** So, basically, he's Reform.
** But for the most part Jon subverts that trope. He clearly knows his Judaic lore and customs, but chooses to make part of his act about his choice to live as an ultra-assimilated, intermarried New York Jew.

* InJoke / NoodleIncident: Jon comes out to chat with the studio audience for a bit before the show starts, and then during the show he will often make a CallBack to something that one of the audience members said, leaving the home audience scratching their heads at the seeming NonSequitur.
* InMyLanguageThatSoundsLike
* InnocentInnuendo: An open-shirted Jason Jones was on Chat Roulette looking very relaxed while his arms were making jerking motions. He turns out to be playing Wii Craps [[spoiler:[[SubvertedTrope while masturbating]].]]
* InsaneTrollLogic: Played brilliantly straight in the manner of Glenn Beck. [[http://www.cc.com/video-clips/fcz6mo/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-the-11-3-project Watch it on video here.]] Comes complete with spoofing HitlerAteSugar.

* IrishmanAndAJew: ''The Daily Show'' is headed up by Jon Stewart ([[StageNames born]] ''Jonathan Leibowitz''--and no, [[DoNotCallMePaul you're not allowed to call him that]]); its sister show, ''Series/TheColbertReport'', stars Creator/StephenColbert, who self-identifies as Irish-American, despite the French-sounding name. Like many other instances of such pairings, the Jewish half is [[DeadpanSnarker sarcastic]] and exasperated with [[CrapsackWorld a world gone mad]], while the Irish half is blustering and [[SmallNameBigEgo self-assured]], but [[TooDumbToLive oblivious to the problems around him]].

-->'''John Oliver''': [''to a visibly bleeding Jon''] Oh, don't be so ''Jewish'' about it, you're fine!
* JewsLoveToArgue: Often joked about, and once they captured empirical evidence on camera.
** It's also the basis for Jon's [[DeadpanSnarker sarcastic retort]] to the notion of [[ConspiracyTheory a Jewish banking conspiracy]]: [[SelfDeprecation Jews can't even agree on where to go for dinner, let alone how to control the world's money]].

* LampshadedTheObscureReference: "Deep cut!"
* LeftItIn: Commonly PlayedForLaughs.
* LenoDevice: The Daily Show popped up in the middle of ''Film/EvanAlmighty''. Bonus points on that one, since the star of that movie, Steve Carell, started out as a Daily Show correspondent.

** Fittingly, Jason Jones' trip to Iran for the Daily Show is re-created for scenes in Jon Stewart's film, ''Rosewater''.

* LogicalFallacies: Thoughtfully provided by the "[[ScienceIsBad Large Hadron Collider]] [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt will destroy the world]]" pundit/high school science teacher.
-->'''Teacher:''' I'd say there is a 50/50 chance. It will either destroy us or it won't.\\

''later''\\
'''John:''' After the apocalypse, we should try breeding. ''(the teacher is male)''\\

* MagicalNegro: Referenced by [[http://www.cc.com/video-clips/assqw3/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-obama-s-running-mate Larry Wilmore]].

** Again referenced by Creator/LarryWilmore when discussing Obama's first year. [[http://www.cc.com/video-clips/4mia8t/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-the-first-364-days-23-hours Negroes aren't magic]]
*** Except for when they're performing card tricks (see Cast Showoff, above).

* {{Montage}}: In honor of Jon's 17 years as host. So far the themes have been [[BrilliantButLazy "I didn't actually read/watch/listen to whatever you're promoting"]] and [[{{Hypochondria}} "Jon being ill (or thinking he is)"]].

* MundaneMadeAwesome: "The best f* cking news team ever. We have a rocket. CNN doesn't have a rocket."
** Which is topped by the Election Day intro [[Creator/StephenColbert Stephen]] cooked up: '''''THE FINAL ENDGAME ALPHA ACTION GO TIME LIFT-OFF DECIDE-CIDAL HUNGRY MAN'S EXTREME RAW POWER ULTIMATE VOTESLAM SMACKDOWN '08 NO MERCY: JUDGEMENT DAY '08'''''
*** ''''''08!'''''
*** And then Jon Stewart lit former Majority Leader of the House Dick Gephardt [[IncendiaryExponent on fire]], and [[StuffBlowingUp blew him up]].

* {{Muppet}}s: A RunningGag that when former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney or former GOP Chairman [[AwesomeMcCoolName Michael Steele]] are mentioned, a clip of a similar-looking Muppet (Guy Smiley and the hapless restaurant patron, respectively) will be shown.
** The muppet!Steele became a guest on April 7, 2010. HilarityEnsues
*** And when the ''real'' Michael Steele appeared as a guest, [[FunnyMoments so did muppet!Steele]].
----> '''"Real" Michael Steele:''' Take a hike, Dick van Dyke.
----> '''Puppet Steele:''' ...I can take that he's better looking than me, but rhyming's ''my'' thing, Gordon Sumner - also known as Sting!

*** Don't forget Gitmo! Never thought that Elmo's cousin (or whatever) was a member of Al-Qaeda, but it's a small world, I suppose.
*** Also, don't forget that [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kC_-tk5qV_U Elmo himself is a neo-Nazi...]]

*** And [[http://www.cc.com/video-clips/pcifcd/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-miss-piggy Miss Piggy]]

* NWordPrivileges: Invoked [[http://www.cc.com/video-clips/qg0465/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-the-hurt-talker here]] when John Oliver and Wyatt Cenac try to debate which racial insults are worse; John can't bring himself to use the N word.

* {{Nerdgasm}}: Jon was particularly flummoxed that among the revelations about Anthony Weiner's sexual escapades was an exchange between him and one woman suggesting that they watch back-to-back Daily Show and TheColbertReport to "get them in the mood."

* NewMediaAreEvil: Spoofed in [[http://www.cc.com/video-clips/rk9abw/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-bloggers this sketch]].

* NewsParody

* NotHelpingYourCase: In the midst of an uphill battle to retain his Senate seat, John [=McCain=] had Sarah Palin speak for him to garner some much-needed publicity for his campaign. [[http://www.cc.com/video-clips/qxlflm/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-lady-and-the-gramps This proved to be a very bad idea.]]

* NotSoDifferent:
** His claims to this effect - which he insists are weaker than they've been taken - have provoked a ''lot'' of backlash from the left, especially following the Rally to Restore Sanity, which he [[http://www.cc.com/video-clips/xjx8t6/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-msnbc-suspends-keith-olbermann mocked]] with his "[[BlameGame The Rally to Determine Precisely the Percentage of Blame to be Doled Out to the Left and the Right for Our Problems]] [[ALighterShadeOfGrey Because We Know the Only Thing That Matters Is That the Other Guys Are Worse Than We Are]] [[Series/TheColbertReport and/or Fear]]."
** One of several points made in [[http://www.mediaite.com/tv/jon-stewart-blasts-fox-news-over-romney-video-chaos-on-bullsht-mountain/ this segment]] produced in the days following Mitt Romney's infamous "47 percent" speech. Romney asserted that nearly half the country takes a share without giving anything meaningful back, leading Jon to mention that the "welfare queens" at companies like Exxon-Mobil and AT&T receive plenty of government money, too.
--->'''Jon''': But at least Exxon-Mobil and AT&T give us back [[SarcasmMode cheap gas and reliable cell phone service]].
* [[NotWorthKilling Not Worth Mocking]]: Stewart grabs a pair of glasses similar to those worn by Radio/GlennBeck. It comes off as a setup of another thorough, annihilating parody of Beck's rhetoric...until he throws the glasses down and says he's just not worth it anymore.

* ObfuscatingStupidity: [[http://www.cc.com/video-clips/ahba3f/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-gretchen-carlson-dumbs-down A charge leveled at Gretchen Carlson]] of "Fox and Friends" for her having to look up the words "czar" and "ignoramus", despite being a Stanford honors graduate in Sociology, having studied at Oxford and being a talented violinist, and so probably being familiar with those words.
** And done ''again'', [[LampshadeHanging lampshade included]] ''and'' [[InvokedTrope vocally invoked]] [[http://www.cc.com/video-clips/nka3cd/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-the-parent-company-trap by Wyatt Cenac]] when discussing how Fox and Friends had connected the "Ground-Zero Mosque" with the leader of The Kingdom Foundation, Prince Al-waleed bin Talal... who happens to be a 7% shareholder with [=NewsCorp=], parent company of Creator/{{Fox News|Channel}}. (This makes him the largest shareholder outside of the Murdoch family.)
-->'''Wyatt Cenac''': Bum-bum-bum! That's some evil shit! It's a level of knowing obfuscation that can only come with having a heart filled with ''pure evil''!

* OnlyInFlorida: During a segment about Florida demanding that welfare recipients take drug urinalysis tests, Aasif Maandvi manages to crash an actual press conference with Gov. Rick Scott and requests that he take a test himself. The other reporters even help to pass him the cup.
** The January 13, 2015 episode's comedy portion was entirely devoted to OnlyInFlorida weird stories, due in part to their guest that evening, Senator Marco Rubio, leading to this chestnut:
-->Jon: Florida, you don't get to judge others when your state motto is, "If Darwin was right, we wouldn't be here."

** [[http://www.cc.com/video-clips/9jiwe5/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-democracy-on-the-lurch---wall-street-pepper-spray-incident Full clip]]. When MSNBC named a New York police officer "Anthony Bologna" (pronounced like [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bologna the Italian city]]), Jon insisted on calling him "Tony Bologna" (pronounced like [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bologna_sausage the sausage]]) and proceeded with a rap:
-->Guy's name is Tony Bologna\\

*** After the rap, Jon showed a clip of a fake TV show, ''The Vigilogna,'' starring [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Meloni Chris Meloni]] (spelled "Melogna" in the clip) as the rogue Tony Bologna.

* PassThePopcorn
* PerfumeCommercial
* {{Pirates}}: [[http://www.cc.com/video-clips/a8xeww/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-the-buccaneer-stops-here "Yo ho ho, the piracy epidemic requires a long-term solution..."]]

* ThePlan: Larry Whitmore speculates in the 4/28/10 show that Chairman Michael Steele is intentionally screwing up his job [[WildMassGuessing so that the Republican Party can show]] [[UsefulNotes/BarackObama that having a black man in charge never works.]]

** Another example, in the unsubtly-subtle vein, occurred on [[http://www.cc.com/video-clips/pwa42r/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-the-rogue-warrior 11-18-09]] segment about Sarah Palin's surge in popularity (accompanied by book-signing). Bernie Goldberg stated that "[Sarah has a son who] has Down's Syndrome. Liberals certainly don't - don't allow that to happen!" Cue a pause from Jon, who shuffles around some papers on the desk prior to holding them in front of his mouth and coughing "Go fuck yourself!"
*** Done in the same vein on [[http://www.cc.com/video-clips/pvmbdv/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-mitt-drops-out 02-07-2008]] with perverse deliberation.

* QuintessentialBritishGentleman: John Oliver finds one in Britain while [[http://www.cc.com/video-clips/rq9zi6/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-royal-wedding-excitement-in-london covering the royal wedding.]]
-->'''John Oliver:''' You are the most English thing I have ever seen.

* ReplacementScrappy: [[invoked]][[http://www.cc.com/video-clips/1xuqqq/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-the-daily-show-blackout John Oliver to Stephen]].

* RidiculouslyLoudCommercial: The full episodes online have faint audio relative to most youtube and other online videos, requiring viewers to turn up their speaker volume. The ads, however, are so loud you have to turn your volume down almost all the way to keep them from blaring.
** The episodes posted on Hulu avert this, either because Hulu turns up the volume of the videos before posting them or because they just have quieter commercials. The ones posted on the show's official site are still too quiet with too-loud commercials, though.

* SchmuckBait: Jon's TakeThat segments. Don't try to [[TemptingFate answer back]] unless you're ''really'' sure you can win [[spoiler:([[FailureIsTheOnlyOption you can't]])]]. This fact is so well known by now that KeithOlbermann played with it a bit, teasing a typical LargeHam response for a whole episode before meekly agreeing with Jon's main point and apologizing.

* ShownTheirWork: Jon's interviews. Especially the authors - Jon reads every book plugged on his show cover-to-cover, and it shows.
** A particularly hilarious example when Herman Cain closed his campaign for the GOP Presidency by quoting the [[Anime/{{Pokemon 2000}} second Pokemon movie.]] His response is to make fun of this with his ''own'' flurry of particularly accurate Pokemon references.
-->'''Jon:''' Look it up, bitches. Look it up.
* ShoutOut: [[http://www.cc.com/video-clips/3mb1n1/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-the-best-f--king-news-team-ever---tiger-woods--faith A truly hilarious one:]] [[spoiler: John Oliver as a [[Film/{{Avatar}} Na'vi]].]]

* SkywardScream: A failed attempt can be seen [[http://www.cc.com/video-clips/s121fb/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-9-11-earwig here]].

* {{Squee}}: After showing [[http://www.cc.com/video-clips/fjehfq/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-q---o President Obama having a candid talk at a GOP conference]], and President Obama completely blowing away every one of their talking points, Jon Squeed.
--> (In high pitched voice) "...Holy S** t! They're gonna air this!? This is gonna be awesome!"

* {{Squick}}: Invoked with Ed Helms getting a mole on his nose removed. You can hear the audience groaning as it happens. [[http://www.cc.com/video-clips/9qz36m/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-touched-by-a-scalpel]]

--->"Strawman slippery slope dumb guy may have a point."

* TakeThat: Several times over, typically directed at various news networks for failing in the investigative portion of "investigative reporting." Among them are Creator/FoxNewsChannel (typical fodder for the show), followed by [=CNBC=] (over bad financial advice), and Creator/{{CNN}}, for "Leaving it there".
** Jon's [[http://www.cc.com/video-clips/fcz6mo/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-the-11-3-project deconstruction of Glenn Beck]] was absolutely hilarious.

* TemptingFate: A favorite of the show during the first segment. Usually used to show the hypocrisy of news programs (most often FOX News), where Jon will show a video, then say something along the lines of "next thing you know, they'll say..." and sure enough, another video rolls showing them saying that.

** [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] on the June 16th episode, when he shows a clip of a FOX News anchor blasting Obama for asking people to pray to God in a speech even though he doesn't regularly go to church. Jon comments along the lines of "wouldn't it be hilarious if they had previously begged him to show his religious side and tell people to pray?". Immediately afterwards he says, completely [[DeadpanSnarker deadpan]] "cue FOX News clip from the day before the speech" showing just what he wanted.
** Anyone notice that every time the show goes on hiatus, even CRAZIER crap happens? When Jon and the crew come back from vacation, they've got twelve different scandals or disasters to cover. It's as though, "hey let's take a break here while nobody's doing anything! So here we are in sunny Hawaii and... what's that on CNN?... holy shit, the Vice President shot someone in the face!"
*** Some might even think that those in the scandals do it on purpose, knowing that Jon and his crew would be more damaging to them than the "actual" journalists.

* TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: In October 7, 2008, while analyzing the "stupid" vote, John Oliver broke it down into twelve sections: paste eaters, numbskulls, nitwits, fucktards, people whose hands get stuck in pickle jars when they eat pickles, people who lose arguments to babies, douchenozzles, tiger petters, people who jump up and down on frozen lakes, shaved gorillas who've somehow managed to acquire a driver's license, the voluntarily lobotomized, and [[TakeThat Cubs fans]].

* TranquilFury: Jon's evisceration of ''Crossfire''.

* WeAREStrugglingTogether: [[http://www.cc.com/video-clips/fp77gf/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-the-socialist-network The Socialist Network]].
* WeHardlyKnewYe: Micheal Che was only a correspondent for three months before he left the show for [[Series/SaturdayNightLive Weekend Update]]. [[http://www.cc.com/video-clips/qrejma/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-farewell-to-michael-che His last segment]] hung a huge lampshade on this, with Jason Jones going so far as to confuse him for Wyatt Cenac and cutting to a screen reading "Michael, we hardly used ye," before the commercial break.

* WhoWritesThisCrap: [[http://www.cc.com/video-clips/dl9n9c/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-story-hole---children-s-cartoons-from-hamas Right here.]]
--> '''Jon Stewart''': In a segment we like to call "Jon Stewart's Story Hole". Remember, it's our little secr-who wrote this?

* WorstNewsJudgementEver: Mentioned [[http://www.cc.com/video-clips/jnsu2a/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-headlines---teutonic-plague here]].
** Done again, along with a subtle [[WhatTheHellHero What the hell, news!?]] [[http://www.cc.com/video-clips/e9rz9k/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-indianapolis-homeless-talent-show here]], where John can be seen literally ''pleading'' that the interviewer realizes just how idiotic the piece is, and cut it short. No points for guessing what happens.
*** And to elaborate a bit - the local news program [[FollowTheLeader tries to find their own "man with the golden voice", a homeless man that sounded strikingly like a DJ]]. They then went into the streets of Indianapolis to see what talents their local homeless might have. It starts off with the interviewer asking a homeless woman if she's "heard about the homeless man who had the golden voice?" on Website/YouTube[[note]]Because the homeless have internet access, right?[[/note]]... and gets worse from there.

** Jon rips into the CNN morning show "Early Start" [[http://www.cc.com/video-clips/v2xg0e/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-waking-bad here]] because they cold-called Kerry Kennedy ''at 5 AM'' and then proceeded to ask her ''about her father's assassination.''

* YiddishAsASecondLanguage: Jon's been known to pepper his lines with Yiddish, and (as part of Jon's grant of NWordPrivileges), so do some of the correspondents.

* ZombieApocalypse: in 2029, of the ThoseWackyNazis variety. It's at about 7:30 [[http://www.cc.com/video-clips/r7vdr2/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-legends-of-the-wall here]].

* FilmAtEleven

* FlatWhat: In an interview with Barbara Walters, former GOP candidate Herman Cain said that, if offered a cabinet position, he would want to be Secretary of of Defense. Walters [[http://www.cc.com/video-clips/97i0jg/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-lowe-s-balls-of-the-week was so flabbergasted]] that she could only stammer out a '''''What?''''' This prompted Jon to show examples of people and comments that ''didn't'' faze her, including Syria's Bashar al-Assad saying that no government has ever killed non-deserving people.

* FoxNewsLiberal: Notable aversion. Though a decidedly liberal-leaning program, the Daily Show often hosts conservative guests. When it does, Jon Stewart treats them with respect and actually attempts to understand their point of view, and thus help the audience to do the same.

* FunnyForeigner: Both played straight and subverted with John Oliver. There are plenty of times where his British-ness is used for laughs, but it's also heavily implied that he ''wants'' to be taken seriously as a journalist, but is forced to play the Funny Foreigner role for Jon Stewart's personal amusement.
** He's also used in lieu of a calculator whenever a measurement is given in metric, as part of the segment "Is that a lot?"

* FollowTheLeader: The Daily Show has spawned a number of similar shows in the Middle East, notably ''[[http://parazit-parazit.blogspot.com/ Parazit]]'' [[http://www.theworld.org/2010/12/irans-daily-show/ in Iran]] and ''[[http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUvufBZoieEr1YOFhOMnzHw El Bernameg]][[note]]Literally, "The Program" or "The Show"[[/note]] with Bassem Youssef'' [[http://www.onthemedia.org/transcripts/2011/04/15/03 in post-revolution Egypt]]. Both shows' hosts and producers [[SincerestFormOfFlattery openly admit that they are attempting to replicate]] ''The Daily Show''.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Of course, [[http://www.cc.com/video-clips/fpg8ti/intro---marathon Jon didn't intend to do so.]]
** Another bit of unintentional foreshadowing happened during the Anthony Weiner scandal, wherein Jon Stewart fake-resigns and John Oliver takes over the show (temporarily, before Jon Stewart reminds him that it was just a bit). A few years later, the Weiner scandal reemerged with a vengeance while Jon was on hiatus and John Oliver was hosting.

* EagleLand: Obviously. But when ever he [[TakeThat makes a few jabs]] at the more...[[TheFundamentalist extreme]] conservatives we see in news clips, he or one of the correspondents makes it [[{{Anvilicious}} quite clear]] that said people fit in with "flavor 2" as they tend to "hate 50% of the country".

* MrFanservice: Have you seen the movie "Playing By Heart"?
** Also [[http://www.cc.com/video-clips/5s3orv/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-state-of-the-union-2011---correspondent-rebuttal here,]] when Creator/LarryWilmore reminds modern viewers what Jon looked like back in 1999. Rowr.

* {{Montage}}: In honor of [[strike:Jeff]] Jon's 17 years as host. So far the themes have been [[BrilliantButLazy "I didn't actually read/watch/listen to whatever you're promoting"]] and [[{{Hypochondria}} "Jon being ill (or thinking he is)"]].

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* AcceptableTargets: [[http://www.cc.com/video-clips/09wu11/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-cpac-after-party Parodied]] when Jon Stewart checks a [[{{Doorstopper}} huge book]] on comedian ethics to see if it's all right to make fun of [[TeenGenius a 14-year-old speaker]] at the Conservative Political Action Conference (turns out, only if you're a classmate or sibling).[[invoked]]

* AdamWesting: Happens a lot with celebrity guests. KeithOlbermann does [[http://www.cc.com/video-clips/k40xmh/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-tech-talch---chatroulette a great one]] in the piece on ChatRoulette.

* AlterKocker: As part of the 2008 election cycle, Wyatt Cenac is sent to cover the opinions of a group of Jewish retirees in Florida during the debates. Eventually, the political discourse devolves into them all [[JewsLoveToArgue arguing with each other over trivialities]], with the increasingly bewildered correspondent unable to get a word in edgewise.

* AmusingInjuries: Jon Stewart accidentally cuts his wrist on some glass [[http://www.cc.com/video-clips/pxo9ic/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-jon-stewart-press-conference during a fake press conference (at 4:19)]], and [[{{Determinator}} keeps going]]. Then [[http://www.cc.com/video-clips/dp12kj/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-jon-stewart-press-conference---john-oliver-takes-over John Oliver steps in]] and they start making jokes about it while Stewart's blood trickles down onto his hand.

-->'''Jon''': I suppose I should be expressing some ambivalence about the targeted killing of another human being, and yet... uh, no.
* {{Angrish}}: After some clips, Jon will be incapable of speaking English for a few seconds due to disbelief or rage.
** [[http://www.cc.com/video-clips/j5ujut/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-i-give-up---9-11-responders-bill This]] has quite a lot. Understandably.

* ArchiveTrawl: Almost, if not the entire, show's run is available on the website.

--> '''Jon Stewart''': [[[http://www.cc.com/video-clips/1lvzto/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-truthiness-to-power After calling Tucker Carlson an arrogant douche]]] Tucker and I can talk like this because we already have a visceral negative reaction to each other. Not an ounce of friendship or respect between us. Truly one of the only people in the world I feel that way about.
** More recently, Sean Hannity, whom he subjected to [[http://www.cc.com/video-clips/o9sv2p/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-grazed-and-confused repeated]] [[http://www.cc.com/video-clips/sixd7e/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-sean-of-the-fled---stay-mr--hannity--stay lampooning]] on his show, ripping into him in various segments he comments on, and dubbing him ‘[[TakeThat The Arby’s of News]]’.

* MsFanservice: While there's little doubt that Creator/OliviaMunn would be this whether or not that was the plan, a veritable tempest in a teapot arose when a feminist (possibly or possibly not of the [[StrawFeminist silly variety]]) accused the ''TDS'' staff of sexism, saying they only hired her to try out for her sexiness. While most agreed that Munn's first two segments [[SoOkayItsAverage left something to be desired]], her third segment (a field assignment in UsefulNotes/{{Arizona}}) was [[GrowingTheBeard enough of an improvement]] that {{Slate}}, at least, said she warranted a little bit of patience.
** It's worth noting that this is the exact same complaint that gave her something of a BrokenBase among ''Series/AttackOfTheShow'' fans, which still lingers after several years of her hosting.
** In the end, her tenure was short-lived, as she became the lead financial reporter for [[TheNewsroom another fictional news show]].

** John used the fallacy-ridden manner of thinking GlennBeck uses to prove things to prove him wrong and evil.

* [[NotWorthKilling Not Worth Mocking]]: Stewart grabs a pair of glasses similar to those worn by GlennBeck. It comes off as a setup of another thorough, annihilating parody of Beck's rhetoric...until he throws the glasses down and says he's just not worth it anymore.

-->'''Oliver:''' "[[AlphaBitch I'm]] likely to try to put this in a [[BlatantLies ludicrously fabricated]] [[BasedOnAGreatBigLie historical context]], the BroadStrokes of which I will have derived from a [[CowboyBebopAtHisComputer cursory reading]] of [[TheOtherWiki Wikipedia]] [[RefugeInAudacity literally moments before going on air]]."

-->-- '''Rachel Maddow'''

--> Here's what's upsetting about this guy; fucking guy acts like we were 20 seconds away from total victory in Iraq, when suddenly ''Obama'' just gives it away at midfield, and then ''Osama bin Laden crosses it, and ISIS heads it home; [[TheWorldCup God, how did we blow that game!?]]''

* {{Homage}}: Jon riffed on [[WinstonChurchill Churchill]] while talking about his ''Crossfire'' appearance: "Tomorrow, I will go back to being funny, and [[http://www.cc.com/video-clips/mr122o/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-your-show-blows your show will still blow."]]

* TotallyRadical: Spoofed in a segment about the rush by politicians and the media to embrace {{Twitter}}, Samantha Bee gave a report which included the following exchange:

---->'''Jon''': When we left the world's two biggest trouble spots were Wisconsin and the set of ''TwoAndAHalfMen''. And then suddenly ALL HOLY HELL BREAKS LOOSE! I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT TO LOOK AT!

* NotSoDifferent: His claims to this effect - which he insists are weaker than they've been taken - have provoked a ''lot'' of backlash from the left, especially following the Rally to Restore Sanity, which he [[http://www.cc.com/video-clips/xjx8t6/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-msnbc-suspends-keith-olbermann mocked]] with his "[[BlameGame The Rally to Determine Precisely the Percentage of Blame to be Doled Out to the Left and the Right for Our Problems]] [[ALighterShadeOfGrey Because We Know the Only Thing That Matters Is That the Other Guys Are Worse Than We Are]] [[Series/TheColbertReport and/or Fear]]."

* TheSwearJar: An "[[UsefulNotes/BarackObama Obama]] [[OsamaBinLaden Osama]] Flub Jar".

* GoKartingWithBowser: Stewart refers to his 'weekend squash partner' BillOReilly.

* {{Joisey}}: Jon Stewart is from New Jersey (he even got to introduce BruceSpringsteen at the Kennedy Center Honors!) and will often use a parody Joisey accent.

* VitriolicBestBuds: With [[TheOReillyFactor Bill O'Reilly]].

[[caption-width-right:280:Go onnnnnn...]]

The bulk of the [[LongRunners Long-running]] [[Series/TheDailyShow satirical news program]] on Creator/ComedyCentral, hosted by Creator/JonStewart from 1999--2015.

Stewart himself took over from [[ThePeteBest Craig Kilborn]] in 1999 and turned the show into a household name[[note]]Stewart turned the show into the premier news/political satire show in the world, with "Indecision 2000" cited as the moment when the show really came into its own[[/note]], but it's also launched a few careers among its correspondents. Creator/SteveCarell and Ed Helms are successful alums, and Creator/StephenColbert got his own {{spinoff}} program called ''Series/TheColbertReport'' (a parody of confrontational talk programs such as ''TheOReillyFactor'',) which became a runaway success leading him to be picked [[Series/TheLateShowWithStephenColbert to take over]] for Creator/DavidLetterman. Two more ''Daily Show'' alums have since been given their own Comedy Central shows, Creator/LewisBlack's ''[[Series/RootOfAllEvil Root of All Evil]]'' and the critically acclaimed ''Series/ImportantThingsWithDemetriMartin''.[[note]]The other major ''Daily Show'' correspondent now with his own show is Creator/JohnOliver, whose ''[[Series/LastWeekTonightWithJohnOliver Last Week Tonight]]'' airs on Creator/{{HBO}}.[[/note]] The show's writing staff has also published two books in connection to the show, both parodies of high-school textbooks; they are ''[[Literature/AmericaTheBook America (The Book): A Citizen's Guide To Democracy Inaction]]'' from 2004 and ''[[Literature/EarthTheBook Earth (The Book): A Visitor's Guide To The Human Race]]'' from 2010.

!!''The Daily Show With Jon Stewart'' contains examples of:

-->''In the bedroom you'll find a box marked porn...it's not porn, Jon, it's [[NoExceptYes erotica]]! It's my legacy! [[http://www.cc.com/video-clips/mmu5bn/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-only-in-new-york----escaped-detainee That has to go to a library!]]''

* TrainingMontage: John Oliver performs one of these ''Film/{{Rocky}}''-style to "get in shape" for being [[FootballHooligans a drunken, violent lout]] during the 2010 World Cup.

* MagicalNegro: Referenced by the GenreSavvy [[http://www.cc.com/video-clips/assqw3/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-obama-s-running-mate Larry Wilmore]].

** Jon loves making comparisons of politician Mitch McConnel to a turtle.