Jon Stewart Admits ‘The Daily Show’ Didn’t Do Enough To Address Diversity During His Tenure -

[albert chan]

https://deadline.com/2020/06/jon-stewart-admits-the-daily-show-didnt-do-enough-to-address-diversity-during-his-tenure-1202968567/

Jon Stewart has spoken openly about the fact that that The Daily Show didn’t adequately address issues of workplace diversity during his tenure as host.

Stewart, who hosted the Comedy Central series between 1999 and 2015, made the admission in an interview with Charlamagne tha God on his radio show The Breakfast Club.

He said that The Daily Show did have a policy that removed names from submission packets. “But we still kept just hiring white dudes. White dudes from a certain background,” he said. “What we realized is the river that we were getting the material from, the tributary was also polluted by the same inertia. And you had to say to them, send me women, send me black people. And all of a sudden, women got funny. It just kind of happened. But they’d been funny all along. We just hadn’t actively done enough to mine that.”

The show was criticized in 2010 in an article in Jezebel for having a predominantly white, male writers’ room. “I remember going back into the writers’ room and being like, ‘Do you believe this shit? Kevin? Steve? Mike? Bob? Donald?’ Oh. Uh oh.”

The director of Irresistible also addressed a fallout between himself and correspondent Wyatt Cenac over his impression of Herman Cain. “I did a bit about Herman Cain where I adopted Herman Cain’s accent. To me, it was just his accent. But to that writer, it was a racist bit,” he said.

“He called me out in a meeting with everybody around, and I got defensive and got mad. It took me a long time to realize that the real issue was that we hired a person who is black, and that because then they felt like they’re carrying the weight of representation. So, they suddenly feel like, ‘I’ve got to be the speaker of the race.’ And that puts a pressure on them. We think we’re doing the right thing, but we’re not doing it in the right way. Those were hard lessons for me, and they were humbling lessons. And I was defensive about them and still didn’t do it all right.”

 

[BlueSpark]

White dudes from a certain background

Oy vey what could this mean

 

[Immortal Technique]

I'm guessing his movie Irresistible ain't doing so hot since he's come out of his hidey-hole.

 

[albert chan]

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/jon-stewart-why-joe-bidens-humility-makes-him-right-leader-us-1300362

During his appearance on 'The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,' Stewart revealed that he initially supported Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren and talked about how the 1918 pandemic compares to the current crisis.

After being critical of presidential nominee Joe Biden, Jon Stewart shared what he believes makes the former vice president the best-suited leader for America.

"What I think in this moment this country needs is a leader of humility that understands that he doesn't understand, that understands the humanity of this experiment and the difficulty that it is in maintaining it," Stewart said on Wednesday's The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. "It gives me hope that maybe he is the man of the moment."

Stewart, who also shared that he initially supported either Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren in the Democratic presidential primary, said that Biden wasn't even in his top four choices for the next president. But upon seeing past Biden's "Uncle Joe character," Stewart said that he has learned to value the Democratic nominee's life experiences, noting that the grief from loss Biden has experienced leads to humility.

"There's a humility to the randomness of tragedy that brings about a caring that can't be faked and it can't be contrived," Stewart said. "Trump doesn't have that gear."

During his Wednesday night appearance, Stewart also chatted with Colbert about the 1918 pandemic and how policies from nearly 100 years ago aren't all that different from today's. Stewart shared that during the 1918 health crisis, experts advised staying inside and wearing masks and maintaining social distancing.

"It's 102 years, we've literally just been driving in circles," he quipped on the late-night show. "They haven't made any improvement over the last 102 years. Somebody screwed up."

When asked about the current government's response to the COVID-19 outbreak, Stewart joked that he blinked "S.O.S" in morse code.

 

[дядя Боря]

I love it when rabbid dims come out to admit their "faults" to whore for attention and brownie points. Most shitholes that screech about racism, be it a mayor, PD chief, complain about systemic racism that they are in charge of, but because they are talking about it, that should somehow make it right and give them some credibility. It's like a rapist or murderer, who was never caught, steps out of the shadows and complain that it is wrong to rape and kill, and what a problem we got here, all the meanwhile the white elephant in the room is that they themselves were in charge of the mess they complain about.

with John, I had some good laughs during Bush years and it got boring with Obama. Too late to regret about lack of black writers etc. It won't fix anything now, he is just attention whoring to be relevant again.

 

[Bland Crumbs]

Meet the new face of TDS.

Biden's humility?

“I said, ‘I’m telling you, you’re not getting the billion dollars.’ I said, ‘You’re not getting the billion. I’m going to be leaving here in,’ I think it was about six hours. I looked at them and said: ‘I’m leaving in six hours. If the prosecutor is not fired, you’re not getting the money.’ Well, son of a bitch. [Laughter.] He got fired. And they put in place someone who was solid at the time.”

Real fucking humble.

“CornPop was a bad dude and he ran a bunch of bad boys,” he said.

One day, Biden recalled, CornPop refused to wear a bathing cap, flouting pool rules. Biden spotted him on the pool’s 3m diving board, and decided to lay down the law.

“You! Off the board, or I’ll come up and drag you off,” Biden shouted.

CornPop came down but apparently was displeased – not least because Biden had also called him “Esther”, a reference to then-prominent swimmer Esther Williams.

CornPop said he would be waiting outside. He was true to his word, Biden remembered: “He was waiting there with three guys [with] straight razors.”

Acting on the advice of a man he described as a pool mechanic, Biden walked out to meet CornPop head on.

“I walked out with the chain. I walked up to my car,” Biden said. “I said: ‘First of all … when I tell you to get off the board, you get off the board, and I’ll kick you out again. But I shouldn’t have called you Esther Williams, I apologize.’

Humility.

“Look, the reason I’m running is because I’ve been around a long time and I know more than most people know and I can get things done,” Biden responded. “That’s why I’m running. You want to check my shape, let’s do push-ups together. Let’s run. Let’s do whatever you want to do.”

What a guy.

Never mind his history of abject failure in terms of policy and decisions.

Yeah, Jon, he is your man.

I used to think Stewart was intelligent but now I think he's a pedophile and the DNC called him up and asked him about his victims.

 

[crocodilian]

What a shameless establishment crony. It's especially sad when he made a majority of his fame & fortune off political satire.

 

[Too Many Catgirls]

Jon... shut the fuck up. You got out, so stay out.

All this guy had to do was nothing, now he's gone and opened his big mouth and opened himself up to being demolished by the mob. I have no sympathy for what comes next.

 

[CIA Nigger]

It's funny that the OP article talks about The Daily Show's Jezebel story because that was actually used as an example in the famous book Trust Me I'm Lying (an expose about media manipulation and whatnot). Chapter 13 (the first one of the second half of the book that goes over the effects of news blogs) discusses the story in detail.

It also went into detail on why apologizing never works, and why the media doesn't care even if you write a response letter saying it's bullshit. They've poisoned your reputation so they can make a few bucks.

 

[From The Uncanny Valley]

Diversity is a terrible religion and I refuse to be a part of it.

 

[MrJokerRager]

Jon Stewart would have been better off living quietly on his farm as people would remember him fondly and money is not an issue for him. But he had to fuck it all up. He belongs to the 1990s and 2000s. He fit in perfectly in that era but this era is different, this era does not need him.

I am surprised how after he would leave, it would be some bowtie faggot by the name of Tucker Carlson that would go on a redemption arc and be the most trusted pundit on cable television even willing to call subtly Trump a pussy for some of his shit.

 

[Jimjamflimflam]

Amazing that he knew it was a problem but didn't do anything about it.

Anyways "news" shows like the daily show is why politics has become so divided. A bunch of know nothing useful idiots who think a intelligent counter to a point is smugness and snark.

 

[ZehnBoat]

Amazing that he knew it was a problem but didn't do anything about it.

but he feels bad, and has money so it's okay
again, i notice rich and famous people can just walk away from these things, but average people can't...

 

[The Pink Panther]

>comedy show
>WE HAVE TO ADDRESS SERIOUS ISSUES IN A SERIOUS WAY
>mfw

 

[Harlay de Champvallon]

He now laughs at the goy.

 

[MrJokerRager]

Jon Stewart is on Joe Rogan today but is doing it from a webcam. Probably gonna skip out on watching it and rather watch Colin Noir to see what he is been up to.

 

[FaramirG]

The sad thing is that when they changed their hiring practices the quality of the correspondents (of any race) went way down. Jessica Williams, Jordan Clapper, Al Madrigal, and Trevor Noah were painfully unfunny. The ones who showed the slightest bit of talent (Oliver, Minhaj, Cenac) all left to do solo gigs, leaving this dull program that feels like some college kids trying to do their own version of the daily show. You'd never believe it was the same show that used to have Carrell and Colbert.

 

[SteelPlatedHeart]

Media sucks ass right now.

 

[Fluoxetine Man]

I am surprised how after he would leave, it would be some bowtie faggot by the name of Tucker Carlson that would go on a redemption arc and be the most trusted pundit on cable television even willing to call subtly Trump a pussy for some of his shit.

I'd love it if Tucker interviewed Steward now.

 

[Trilby]

Media sucks ass right now.

It has since the start of the century as far as I'm aware.