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We'll need a million Moments of Zen to emotionally endure this loss.
Who basically imported The Daily Show to HBO with Last Week Tonight. We also have Stewart to thank for Rachael Harris, Al Madrigal, Demetri Martin, Lewis Black, Samantha Bee, Aasif Mandvi, Beth Littleford, Rob Riggle, and John Hodgman.
Pointing out the number of times Fox News was face-slappingly wrong about facts small and large is a little like shooting fish in a barrel, granted — but Stewart still evinced just the right level of bemused rage anyway. And although Fox News certainly provided Stewart with a regular stream of material, if MSNBC screwed up, Stewart was also right there, his knives sharpened. The network that suffered Stewart's most incisive comic scorn, however, was by far CNN, including a Kickstarter campaign to buy the network!
Stewart made no secret of his ideologically liberal point of view, but Republicans in Congress over the last 16 years have certainly proved ripe for satire — like, most recently, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, whom Stewart likened to a turtle.
Of course, Democrats in Congress have also proved ripe for satire, and Stewart has also been happy to oblige.
Jim Cramer still probably wakes up in cold sweats.
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It's not easy to fill the guest spots on a late night talk show that airs four nights a week, especially one as unusual as The Daily Show was at its outset. But Stewart turned that into an advantage by booking authors of non-fiction books, which covered everything from the expansion of presidential powers to the future of cognitive studies to the expansion of the Taliban on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border.