History Series / TheDailyShowWithJonStewart

* {{Corpsing}}: Jon tends to giggle a lot while trying to report. One of the greatest examples is when he and Stephen completely lose it while reporting the [[http://www.cc.com/video-clips/1gonk2/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-prince-charles-scandal Prince Charles Scandal.]] He does it often during the tosses to the Colbert Report as well, or whenever one of his correspondents says something he wasn't expecting. Jon rarely tries to keep a straight face during his reporting, however.

* NotSoDifferent: 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.

** A particularly hilarious example when Herman Cain closed his campaign for the GOP Presidency by quoting the [[Anime/{{Pokemon 2000}} second Pokémon movie.]] His response is to make fun of this with his ''own'' flurry of particularly accurate Pokémon references.

** "To be fair to Herman Cain, we can't all be as wise [[Anime/{{Pokemon}} as Slowking wearing the Shellder of knowledge]]. The Shellder of knowledge; look it up!" The culmination of a lengthy discussion on why Herman Cain picked the wrong ''Pokémon'' film quote to use to close his campaign.

* TheCameo: With overlapping JustForFun/OneOfUs part, in one episode when Jon Stewart was criticizing the national spying programs and mentioning a spy satellite NROL, there was [[LightNovel/HennekoTheHentaiPrinceAndTheStonyCat one particular cute highschool girl]] who is being tentacle raped by the logo's octopus. [[http://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2013/12/09-1/tsukiko-from-henneko-makes-a-cameo-appearance-on-the-daily-show You'll have]] [[http://www.cc.com/video-clips/wnciaf/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-that-thing-they-said-they-re-not-doing--they-re-totally-doing to see it for yourself]].

* YouKeepUsingThatWord: Jason Jones asks if the (bigoted) local leader of and ''Americans Against Hate'' chapter knew what "against" meant. Said leader had passed out pamphlets to not officially allow a Muslim-American into the party.

* TheCameo: With overlapping JustForFun/OneOfUs part, in one episode when Jon Stewart was criticizing the national spying programs and mentioning a spy satellite NROL, there was [[LightNovel/HentaiOujiToWarawanaiNeko one particular cute highschool girl]] who is being tentacle raped by the logo's octopus. [[http://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2013/12/09-1/tsukiko-from-henneko-makes-a-cameo-appearance-on-the-daily-show You'll have]] [[http://www.cc.com/video-clips/wnciaf/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-that-thing-they-said-they-re-not-doing--they-re-totally-doing to see it for yourself]].

** Jon's impression of Dick Cheney depicts him as Burgess Meredith's version of [[Series/{{Batman}} The Penguin]].

* StrawCharacter: The show isn't above picking the craziest people they can find in the editorial segments (who will agree to be on camera) to argue for the "wrong" side while often using more qualified and sensible people to argue the "right" side, but given how hilariously bad some of their arguments are, and how much this is done in more (allegedly) serious news shows, [[TropesAreTools the comedy is usually better for it]].

No, he's [[PainfulRhyme lactose intoleroni]]

* ShortTitleLongElaborateSubtitle: Many of the guests' books.

* RevolvingDoorCasting: Up until about the 2008 presidential election, correspondents and contributors tended to come and go at the rate of + /-1 a year. From then to a little after 2012 presidential election the five main correspondents jobs were held by Aasif Mandi, Jason Jones, Samantha Bee, Wyatt Cenac and John Oliver, the longest stretch of consistent correspondents in the show's history. After the 2012 election this more or less became the standard again, however.

* CastHerd: Up until about the 2008 presidential election, correspondents and contributors tended to come and go at the rate of + /-1 a year. From then to a little after 2012 presidential election the five main correspondents jobs were held by Aasif Mandi, Jason Jones, Samantha Bee, Wyatt Cenac and John Oliver, the longest stretch of consistent correspondents in the show's history. After the 2012 election this more or less became the standard again, however.

* FacePalm: A favorite reaction of Jon when confronted with the most [[DrinkingGame/TVTropes egregious]] [[YouFailLogicForever logical fallacies]].

[[folder: A - B]]

** In [[http://www.cc.com/video-clips/yuy2eb/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-america-s-love-affair-with-war a field piece]] about UsefulNotes/AmericanCivilWar reenactors, John Oliver actually broke his nose. In an interview on NPR, John Oliver noted that his boss's reaction was:
--->The first thing they asked was: Did you get it on camera? And we said, yes. And they said, good. Was it funny? And then you've got - yes, yes, it was funny. So by the time I got back to the office, we'd already sent the footage back. So all I could hear was gales of laughter as people just kept repeat viewing me smashing my face into the ground. So, we ended up doing a reenactment, a re-reenactment at the end of that piece with a huge bodybuilder guy playing me with a more - yeah, like a huge chest.

---> '''Jon Stewart:''' [[[http://www.cc.com/video-clips/1lvzto/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-truthiness-to-power After calling 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.

-->"Have you ''read'' this book?"

* BackForTheFinale: Most of the corespondents from the past 16 years returned on Jon Stewart's last show. [[spoiler: Including Craig Kilborn, the show's original host and Jon's predecesor.]]
--> '''Steve Carell:''' Becoming an international superstar was just something I did while waiting for my next assignment. We've all just been waiting the whole time.

--->"NOBODY PUTS BRUCIE IN A CORNER!"

-->'''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 {{Wiki/Wikipedia}} [[RefugeInAudacity literally moments before going on air]]."

--->'''Jon:''' "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..."]]

--> '''Jon''': It's fine! You're doing fine, focus. What have you learned so far today?
--> '''Jordan''': Well, uh...you have to dial 9 to get an outside line...um, lunch is at 1...uh...and if I keep my head down here for a couple years I have a real shot at getting my own sitcom on NBC.

[[folder: C - D]]

-->'''Sam:''' When a bound and naked prisoner has electrodes attached to...
-->'''Jon:''' ''(interrupting)'' Okay, Sam, Sam, Sam...
-->'''Sam:''' Oh, I'm sorry. To his T-E-S-T-I-C-L-E-S... testicles.

-->'''Jon''': It seems like every year the War On Christmas starts earlier and earlier...

-->'''Kristen''': Why, what do you mean?
-->'''Jon''': ...nothing.

--->'''Jon''': Sometimes I can be unexpectedly confrontational, and other times...it’s almost as though I don’t know what the f**k I’m talking about at all.

---> "The bottom line: don't pick a fight with Jon Stewart. ''Do not do it. You cannot win.''"

---> '''Jon:''' Very cute. The kittens lack the capacity to understand the horror of this story.

---> '''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!

-->'''CNN Anchor''': [Al-Zawahiri] is more of a no. 2 than a no. 1
-->'''Black''': I dunno, Al Qaeda's former no. 1 seemed like more of a no. 2 to me. ({{Beat}}) I'm talking about poop, Jon.
-->'''Stewart''': Yes, I know.

[[folder: E - F]]
* {{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 quite clear that said people fit in with "flavor 2" as they tend to "hate 50% of the country".

--->"C'mon, guys, we should be doing ''better'' than this!"

[[folder: G - H]]

* AGoodNameForARockBand: Cribbing a quote from a CNN Anchor about a sex scandal, Jon proclaims
--> '''Stewart''': "If there's not a hip indie band named ''Lesbian Bondage Fiasco'' by next week..."

-->'''PF Rep''': All the animals [the bodybuilders] can go in their cages and the rest of the people can come here."
-->'''Jason Jones''': You know who else said that?
-->'''PF Rep''': .....Hitler?
-->'''Jason Jones''': What?? No! I was going to say UsefulNotes/ThomasJefferson!

--->'''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!

---> '''Mayor Rahm Emanuel:''' What has nine-and-a-half fingers and won't miss you at all? This guy!

[[folder: I - J]]

--> '''Jon:''' You can't be a dick to (Newt) Gingrich. He's a master of [[FooFu dick fu]]. He will use his opponents' dickishness against ... Newt studied it in the mountains of Tibet with the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalai_lama Dicky Lama]].

---> '''Jon Stewart:''' I'm sorry Kristen, I... why, why, why is that?
---> '''Kristen:''' Well Jon, you might just say... I'm "bear-en".

--->'''Jon''': ...what's that? ...you want the Emmy back? Now? [''meekly''] ...sorry.

---> "I'm going to say it right now, Jon Stewart is a racist. I don't believe that to be true, but I'm saying it."

--> "What if both of those bodies are ''fucking idiots''?"

[[folder: K - L]]
* KentBrockmanNews: Most of the correspondents

--> Like ''[[GratuitousSpanish mis hermanos]]'' The Music/DeadKennedys say, "Kill, kill, kill, kill, kill the poor!"

[[folder: M - N]]

--> 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; [[UsefulNotes/TheWorldCup God, how did we blow that game!?]]''

---> '''Stephen Colbert''': ...did you set fire to Dick Gephardt?
---> '''Jon Stewart''': That's right, Stephen, we lit former Majority Leader of the House Dick Gephardt on fire...and then we blew him up.
---> '''Stephen Colbert''': ...kudos.

---> '''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!

--->'''Jon''': Isn't that the whole thing, if you lick a frog you get crazy thoughts?
--->'''Kermit''': If you lick a frog, you're crazy before you started!
--->'''Jon''': I can't believe it, the frog's running circles around me!

---> '''Jon''': [[DoubleEntendre Got a little frog in your throat?]]

[[folder: O - P]]

-->"It's not that hard to pronounce. Repeat after me: Rod-- BLAGOJEVICH WITH THE SCHNITZENDREUBLE, WITH THE GOVERNING AND THE CORRUPTION..."

--->'''Jon''': [''[[http://www.cc.com/video-clips/aeuvf6/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-wrongnado---cnn while criticizing Wolf Blitzer]]''] I don't know, why don't you ask [[SincerityMode your best colleague]]? [''screen displays photo of Cooper'']

--->'''Jon''': Still, Shep Smith [is] one of those people at Fox I like very much, I think he's very good -- maybe I should give him the benefit of the doubt.

-->''In the bedroom you'll find a box marked porn... It's not porn, Jon, it's [[DistinctionWithoutADifference 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!]]''

---> "I've said this before, and I'll say it again... [[PrecisionFStrike Go fuck yourself]]!"

[[folder: Q - S]]

-->'''Stephen''': I hate you Oliver! You're not my real Jon!

-->''"Do not pick a fight with Jon Stewart. Do not do it, you can not win."''

-->'''Jon Stewart''': You're going ''Richard II'' on us?
-->'''John Oliver''': [[SoundEffectBleep F--k]] yeah, strap in!

-->'''Stewart''': You known it's bad when ''the camera guy'' goes, "Fuck this! I'm outta here!"

-->'''Jon''': We went with (randomly slamming a dude because he had a funny name) mainly because I am a twelve-year-old boy trapped in a 75-year-old man's body.

--> '''Stephen:''' Yeah, you know what "z" stands for, Jon: ''[[{{Revenge}} zrevenge]]''!
--> '''Jon:''' See you in a minute, Stephen!
--> '''Stephen:''' ''I will have my zvengeance!''

** A particularly hilarious example when Herman Cain closed his campaign for the GOP Presidency by quoting the [[Anime/{{Pokemon 2000}} second Pokémon movie.]] His response is to make fun of this with his ''own'' flurry of particularly accurate Pokemon references.

** [[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]].]]

---> '''Jon:''' ''(in high pitched voice)'' ...Holy s** t! They're gonna air this!? This is gonna be awesome!

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

[[folder: T - V]]

--->And no, this teleprompter is not stuck!

---->'''Jon''': [[BlatantLies Thank God we didn't miss any inherently funny scandals!]]

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

--> '''Samantha Bee''': Man, this stuff is wizard!
--> '''Jon Stewart''': Is that a new word for "good"?
--> '''Samantha Bee''': Probably.

* {{Troperiffic}}

* VitriolicBestBuds: With Crearor/BillOReilly.

[[folder: W - X]]

---> '''Jon Stewart''': In a segment we like to call "Jon Stewart's Story Hole". Remember, it's our little secr-who wrote this?

---> '''Jon''': *chuckles* I'm a bad writer.

[[folder: Y - Z]]

---> '''Stewart:''' What's with the Yiddish tonight? What's with the -- "shmaltzy", and the "just gave me a little schpilkis, but" -- "I took my punim over there", bing bang boom -- \\

-->'''Dana Perino''': I don't know all the particulars of the bill, *stammers* the point of it... I have no idea what Anthony Weiner's even talking about! He's just screaming and it is ''such'' a turn-off.
-->'''Jon Stewart''': Is it? Is it a turn-off? Is that from your ''Playboy'' profile? "My turn-offs include Weiner screaming, and in any way [[TakeThat justifying my being treated as an expert]]"?!

* TheCameo: With overlapping OneOfUs part, in one episode when Jon Stewart was criticizing the national spying programs and mentioning a spy satellite NROL, there was [[LightNovel/HentaiOujiToWarawanaiNeko one particular cute highschool girl]] who is being tentacle raped by the logo's octopus. [[http://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2013/12/09-1/tsukiko-from-henneko-makes-a-cameo-appearance-on-the-daily-show You'll have]] [[http://www.cc.com/video-clips/wnciaf/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-that-thing-they-said-they-re-not-doing--they-re-totally-doing to see it for yourself]].

* ElectionNight: Heavily spoofed whenever it rolls around.

** You can literally hear the female section of the studio audience squeeing in the 4/26/10 show when [[FetishFuel Jason Jones swaggers on set holding an assault rifle.]]

** In [[http://www.cc.com/video-clips/yuy2eb/the-daily-show-with-jon-stewart-america-s-love-affair-with-war a field piece]] about AmericanCivilWar reenactors, John Oliver actually broke his nose. In an interview on NPR, John Oliver noted that his boss's reaction was:

** Rod BLAGOJEVICH

* RealSongThemeTune: "Dog on Fire" by Bob Mould, as covered by TheyMightBeGiants.

* FacePalm: A favorite reaction of Jon when confronted with the most [[TVTropesWikiDrinkingGame egregious]] [[YouFailLogicForever logical fallacies]].

** Jon admitted in his interview with RachelMaddow that his famous labelling during the rally of cable news as "the 24 hour political pundit perpetual panic conflictinator" was a reference to ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb''.

* SpoofedWithTheirOwnWords: It does this all the time. Interviewing Jon Stewart, RachelMaddow even claimed to see little difference between his method of parodying events and her own of humorously reporting on them.