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Comedy Central took a bit of a breather after Jon Stewart’s final Daily Show to let Stephen Colbert soak up some spotlight at CBS, but with Trevor Noah’s September 28 premiere fast arriving, it’s time to put asses in the chairs. Groove to some Kanye and lower your seat for our first look at The Daily Show With Trevor Noah.

Jon Stewart said goodbye to The Daily Show last night in equal parts star-studded and quiet, personal fashion as former correspondents like Steve Carell, Stephen Colbert, John Oliver and Olivia Munn returned to pay their respects, while Bruce Springsteen closed out the slow with a performance — at Stewart’s request — of his 1999 song “The Land of Hopes and Dreams” and, for his fellow New Jerseyan, “Born to Run”.

We are going to miss Jon Stewart.

Jon Stewart officially has a replacement: Comedian Trevor Noah will be taking over hosting duties on The Daily Show!

The Daily Show and Comedy Central have announced that, after a long search with many rumored candidates, Trevor Noah will succeed the retiring Jon Stewart as the host of the late night program. Noah, a 31-year-old stand-up comedian, has served as a correspondent for the show but, so far, has only made three appearances.

It's the moment we all knew would happen eventually -- and, based on the immediacy of the news cycle and when late night shows are actually filmed, it's the moment most of us also knew was happening yesterday -- but 'Daily Show' host Jon Stewart has finally announced his retirement after seventeen years at the news desk. Stewart's show films in the late evenings in New York City, so the news that he had announced his imminent retirement during a taping last night hit the wire many hours before the show actually aired.

Jon Stewart may be one of the hardest working men on television, but it looks like he's about to take a break from hosting 'The Daily Show' for a few months. But he's not going on a vacation: he's going to direct a movie. 'Rosewater' will not only be Stewart's first time behind the camera, it will be something completely out of his regular wheelhouse.

Comedy Central's long-running 'The Daily Show' host Jon Stewart is taking the summer off for the first time since getting the position in 1999 -- but it's for a good cause. He's making a movie about Iranian journalist Maziar Bahari, who was arrested shortly after appearing in a 'Daily Show' sketch.

Back in the day, high school classes would only show “how a bill becomes a law” videos, but Rhett Felix, a teacher at Eureka High school outside of Peoria, Illinois, tried to spice things up a bit. He used clips from Comedy Central’s ‘The Daily Show with Jon Stewart‘ to educate his students about current events, but the local school board placed him on paid suspension once word got out.

Donald Trump is again feuding, this time with ‘Daily Show’ host Jon Stewart. He claims Stewart has gotten away with a “racist rant” after he made jokes about Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain. Some people collect stamps, some collect coins. Trump collects enemies. The real estate mogul counts Rosie O’Donnell, Martha Stewart, Jerry Seinfeld, Marc Cuban, Bill Cosby, President Obama, Robe

Donald Trump is not only calling a ‘Daily Show with Jon Stewart’ segment “racist,” he’s calling it “very, very racist.” On Monday, Stewart did a segment on the show about the sexual harassment allegations against Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain. During the segment, Stewart mocked Cain’s explanation for what happened, as well as making many jokes about how the world of pizza restauran