YMMV / The Daily Show

• Crosses the Line Twice: One episode during the "guest host" era following Trevor Noah's departure hosted by Leslie Jones, known for her Hot-Blooded persona, had her trying to keep her cool in the face of despairing news. She does pretty well after news stories about Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s third-party run in the 2024 elections making him potentially a spoiler candidate and RFK Jr.'s anti-vaccine conspiracy theories, but what ultimately sets her off (and intro a string of these) is video of RFK Jr. going barefoot on a plane — more specifically, coming back from the bathroom.
  Leslie Jones: This is the most disturbing video I have ever seen of a Kennedy — and that includes the one where a guy's HEAD EXPLODES! Like, how are you the worst Kennedy? Your uncle killed a lady by driving off a bridge! But then I see your nasty feet... and I wish I was in that car. […] Why was that plane even allowed to land? Where is the Malaysian pilot when you need him?
• Genius Bonus: Stewart reacts to footage of Donald Trump eating pizza with a fork (a major faux pas in New York) by screaming "LA FORCHETTA SATANICA, AHHHHHHHH! EL PUBE DEL DIABLO!. The fork was in fact condemned as pagan and satanic when it was first introduced in Italy by the Byzantine.
• Misaimed Fandom: Quite a few people get their news from the show, much to the chagrin of the producers and Jon Stewart. Stewart even recorded a promo once yelling for those people to stop. However, he's seemed to embrace his position as the voice of reason in the news world, a position that Noah also was eager to embrace, as his "War on Bullshit" speech during his first episode attested.
• My Real Daddy: The Daily Show was originally started by Craig Kilborn as a "Weekend Update"-style comedy show. But in 1999, Jon Stewart became its new host, and under his guidance, the show changed from a light parody of local news to a deep and incisive political satire, held in higher esteem than many mainstream news outlets. In 2015, Jon stepped down as host and was succeeded by Trevor Noah, who acknowledged in his pilot episode how important Jon was by using a "step-dad" metaphor similar to the one made in Jon's first show.
• Older Than They Think: The Indecision (year) titles for elections actually predates the show, going back to the Comedy Central coverage of the 1992 election, hosted by Al Franken and Arianna Huffington.
• Replacement Scrappy: Trevor Noah received this reaction upon being chosen as Jon's successor in March 2015, the problem being that A. he's a very new correspondent who's been chosen over all the other, longer serving ones (partly because a lot of them have left the show), B. some finding his humor to be a little too reliant on race jokes, and C. some people just thinking he's not that funny, or at least not funny enough to succeed Jon. It's telling that the first years of Trevor's era had apparently seen some of the lowest ratings in years. He would eventually get out of the Scrappy territory, however, following his coverage of the 2016 election and the subsequent Trump presidency.
• Unpopular Popular Character: John Oliver's character seems to view himself as such, as do the other correspondents' characters. In real life, his guest-hosting was actually looked upon quite favorably—see Ensemble Dark Horse on the YMMV page for Jon Stewart's tenure.

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