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Here are some milestones of his tenure on "The Daily Show",
whose influence on American life is much larger than its small
nightly TV audience.
- Stewart took over as host in January 1999
- "The Daily Show" won 18 Primetime Emmy Awards
- Stewart hosted the Oscars twice, in 2006 and 2008
- "The Daily Show" Twitter account has 3.7 million followers
- The regular TV audience for nightly broadcasts of "The Daily
Show" is about 1.5 to 2 million people, or less than 1 percent
of the U.S. population
- A 2004 Pew Research Center poll found that 21 percent of 18-29
year olds cited "The Daily Show" as their regular source of
political news.
- Stewart helped launch the careers of Stephen Colbert, Larry
Wilmore and John Oliver
- Prominent "Daily Show" guests included U.S. President Barack
Obama, first lady Michelle Obama, U.S. Vice-President Joe Biden,
former U.S. Presidents Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter, former
Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf, science fiction writer Kurt
Vonnegut and numerous celebrities.
- Favorite targets for satire included Fox News, Bill O'Reilly,
former U.S. President George W. Bush, Donald Trump, Sarah Palin,
Glenn Beck, the Tea Party, Obamacare, the 24/7 news cycle of
cable TV news.
- Jon Stewart topped a July 2009 Time magazine poll as the most
trusted U.S. newscaster, with 44 percent of the vote, ahead of
NBC's "Nightly News" anchor Brian Williams.
- Some 200,000 people attended Stewart and Colbert's "Rally to
Restore Sanity and/or Fear" at the National Mall in Washington,
D.C., days ahead of 2010 U.S. mid-term elections.
- In 2014, Stewart released his first movie, "Rosewater," which
he wrote and directed, about the real-life detention in Iran of
Iranian-Canadian journalist Maziar Bahari. The movie won a
Freedom of Expression award from the National Board of Review.
- Stewart, 52, hosts his last edition of "The Daily Show," on
Aug. 6 with fellow comedians Amy Schumer, Louis C.K. and Denis
Leary as his guests.
(Reporting by Jill Serjeant; Editing by Eric Walsh)
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