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jilter
02-21-2009, 09:43 AM
What happened?
If he is away, shouldn't they announce it on his website?
I don't understand.
hefe
02-21-2009, 10:06 AM
What happened?
If he is away, shouldn't they announce it on his website?
I don't understand.

a) What? I hadn't heard anything. Is the show on break?

b) His website, or the show's website? If something would happen, the company owned website probably wouldn't talk about it.
LoadStar
02-21-2009, 10:14 AM
It looks like he was off for a week. Guy has to be able to take a vacation every now and again.

New episodes return on the 23rd (guest: Jeff Bezos of Amazon.com)
lambertman
02-21-2009, 11:39 AM
If Jon announced on his website every time he went on vacation, it would be a livejournal.
pdhenry
02-21-2009, 12:07 PM
Doesn't Stewart usually take off weeks with a federal holiday?
DevdogAZ
02-22-2009, 12:32 AM
Doesn't Stewart usually take off weeks following weeks in which he worked a full schedule?
FYP.

Only being slightly facetious. Seems like the Daily Show takes the week of about once a month. Compared to other nightly shows, such as Letterman, Conan, Kimmel, etc., Stewart takes far more days off. I'd take the time off too, if I could get it. I'm just surprised Comedy Central is so willing to give him so much time off.
madscientist
02-22-2009, 09:37 AM
Only being slightly facetious. Seems like the Daily Show takes the week of about once a month. Compared to other nightly shows, such as Letterman, Conan, Kimmel, etc., Stewart takes far more days off.+1

Very frustrating: "what?!?! Another vacation week?" And he doesn't even have the excuse of doing the Oscars this year.
LoadStar
02-22-2009, 11:30 AM
+1

Very frustrating: "what?!?! Another vacation week?" And he doesn't even have the excuse of doing the Oscars this year.

It's possible that they set the air schedule - and therefore his vacation schedule - based on the potential of him being invited back to host. They probably plan that sort of thing way back at the beginning of the season.
Peter000
02-22-2009, 12:19 PM
Vacation weeks don't bother me. It's the bad guide data that bothers me. Comedy Central, If you are going to repeat a show 4 times a day, and one week a month, please make it so my TiVo recognizes and only records new episodes.
madscientist
02-22-2009, 04:33 PM
Vacation weeks don't bother me. It's the bad guide data that bothers me. Comedy Central, If you are going to repeat a show 4 times a day, and one week a month, please make it so my TiVo recognizes and only records new episodes.Heh. The guide data for TDS has been crap for so long I forget to bother to complain about it :)
pdhenry
02-22-2009, 04:41 PM
The generic guide data for reruns has a characteristic signature ("A humorous slant...") that can be used in an Auto-Recording wishlist to exclude recording reruns. This week's episodes all had that guide data language.
Martin Tupper
02-23-2009, 06:46 AM
The Daily Show, Wishlists, and You...or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love The Daily Show (http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.php?t=373836)
sharkster
02-23-2009, 03:13 PM
Vacation weeks don't bother me. It's the bad guide data that bothers me. Comedy Central, If you are going to repeat a show 4 times a day, and one week a month, please make it so my TiVo recognizes and only records new episodes.


ITA! I hate having to go in and manually set up all the new eps for recording because when I had a season pass it picked up every freaking fracking episode 4 times a day. :mad:
DevdogAZ
02-23-2009, 03:13 PM
Vacation weeks don't bother me. It's the bad guide data that bothers me. Comedy Central, If you are going to repeat a show 4 times a day, and one week a month, please make it so my TiVo recognizes and only records new episodes.

Heh. The guide data for TDS has been crap for so long I forget to bother to complain about it :)
I've made it a weekly ritual to just go through the To Do List and delete all but one of the daily scheduled recordings of TDS and TCR.
doom1701
02-23-2009, 03:18 PM
+1

Very frustrating: "what?!?! Another vacation week?" And he doesn't even have the excuse of doing the Oscars this year.

I wonder if he gets more vacation time to make up for a possible lack of pay. TDS might be Comedy Central's hotest show, but it's still Comedy Central. And Jon Stewart could probably pull a show on any of the major networks if he wanted.

Viewership is probably only minimally affected on vacation weeks, so maybe "Comedy Central Pay, but 3-4 months of vacation each year" is what seals the deal to keep Stewart on the show.

Edit: Or the fanfic Highlander/Daily Show crossover story I did on a dare years ago is true, and they just need the week off each month to clean the blood off the walls. :)
aindik
02-23-2009, 03:38 PM
I agree with doom. Comedy Central gives him that much time off because they'd rather give him time off than pay him. In addition to all the vacation, he also, of course, only works four days a week.

And I also agree with Martin Tupper. His method rules!
LoadStar
02-23-2009, 05:09 PM
Don't forget that besides for being the host of TDS, he's also head writer. He also has his own production company (Busboy Productions) which is responsible for shows on Comedy Central (Important Things with Demitri Martin, Colbert Report) and elsewhere.

I'm sure some of what is seen as "vacation time" is actually time where he is managing his other business.
mattack
02-23-2009, 10:57 PM
What happened?
If he is away, shouldn't they announce it on his website?
I don't understand.

http://www.interbridge.com/lineups.html
Dan203
02-24-2009, 04:43 AM
My biggest pet peeve with the vacation weeks is that they always replay the same 4 episodes from the previous week. I know it's a news show and it's suppose to be current, but replaying the same episodes we just saw last week is boring and causes me not to watch. If they were to dig into the archives and play a few episodes from a few years back I might watch just for the nostalgia.

Dan
trainman
02-24-2009, 06:02 PM
My biggest pet peeve with the vacation weeks is that they always replay the same 4 episodes from the previous week. I know it's a news show and it's suppose to be current, but replaying the same episodes we just saw last week is boring and causes me not to watch. If they were to dig into the archives and play a few episodes from a few years back I might watch just for the nostalgia.

This affects all the late-night talk shows -- they usually don't go more than a couple months back for reruns. I remember back when NBC would sometimes run "Late Night with David Letterman" reruns that were from a couple years previous, but I guess these days, the networks think people won't watch something that seems "old."
aindik
02-24-2009, 06:07 PM
I guess these days, the networks think people won't watch something that seems "old."

I think it's more that they realize that, if they run something from two weeks ago, the vast majority of people watching won't know it's a rerun.
mattack
02-24-2009, 10:31 PM
Though one exception is that during the writers' strike, both Leno & Letterman DID air some ancient episodes.. (I still have 'em recorded.)
Fleegle
02-24-2009, 10:45 PM
Well, he does have a large sector of teh universe to protect, nut JUST Earth...

http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h181/osimonmischief23/JohnStewart.jpg
DevdogAZ
02-25-2009, 12:57 PM
Regarding the reruns, I'd think that if they chose classic episodes and interviews from the past and promoted them as such, they'd do better than just airing some random episode from a couple of weeks ago.
jilter
02-27-2009, 06:24 AM
Meanwhile his show on Wednesday was one of his best. Ever.
Generally it is his opening segments I enjoy the most and his opening 2 segments on Wednesday were pure brilliance.
jilter
08-31-2011, 11:12 PM
http://www.interbridge.com/lineups.html

/Bump
I came here to once again find out where my fave is, and the link above proves to still be useful. Fall must be here!

Thanks mattack!
dianebrat
09-01-2011, 07:11 AM
/Bump
I came here to once again find out where my fave is, and the link above proves to still be useful. Fall must be here!

Thanks mattack!

He does also announce on the show that they will be away for the next week or 2 weeks as the case may be. He certainly did just that before this break.
zalusky
09-01-2011, 10:40 AM
His writers do an incredible amount of research pulling up all those clips contradicting whatever issue in a short amount of time. He needs to keep them happy. Besides the time off gives me time to catch up on all my backed up queues.
netringer
09-01-2011, 12:56 PM
I agree with doom. Comedy Central gives him that much time off because they'd rather give him time off than pay him. In addition to all the vacation, he also, of course, only works four days a week.

And I also agree with Martin Tupper. His method rules!

I've never heard that Jon Stewart is underpaid. He's been in the running in every Late Night kerfuffle since before Conan was hired. He has the same agent, and David Letterman's World Wide Pants company had him under contract.

Methinks that Comedy Central pays their franchise player competitively...and he's very happy there.
zalusky
09-01-2011, 02:33 PM
I've never heard that Jon Stewart is underpaid. He's been in the running in every Late Night kerfuffle since before Conan was hired. He has the same agent, and David Letterman's World Wide Pants company had him under contract.

Methinks that Comedy Central pays their franchise player competitively...and he's very happy there.

In fact he is starting to beat Leno and Letterman in the ratings. I think he has much more freedom in his current gig than if he took over the big shows.

Both Conan, Letterman, and Jay had to drop the edgy stuff once they got their gigs. I think John is pretty happy where he is.
mattack
09-01-2011, 10:31 PM
Yeah, this time both shows are doing 2 week breaks IIRC... and I think they had a week break not too long ago.. and the other late night shows seem to have taken/be taking longer than usual breaks (multi-week breaks) too. Kimmel maybe because of the death of Uncle Frank.. But Letterman took like 3 weeks off, even vacation-phobic Leno was off for 2 weeks IIRC.

Someone may possibly prove me wrong, but it sure seems like more than in previous years.
sieglinde
09-02-2011, 11:07 AM
I don't remember getting the two week warning. The Daily show just didn't show up on my to do list.
zalusky
09-02-2011, 11:13 AM
He typically discusses it on the Thursday before he takes time off in the first segment.
netringer
09-02-2011, 02:29 PM
In fact he is starting to beat Leno and Letterman in the ratings. I think he has much more freedom in his current gig than if he took over the big shows.

Both Conan, Letterman, and Jay had to drop the edgy stuff once they got their gigs. I think John is pretty happy where he is.
I'm listening to "The War for Late Night."

Conan stayed more "edgy" at "11:30" and won the coveted 18-29(?) group while "blue collar" Leno had better "broad based" ratings overall of the 18-dead crowd. Dave did better and started winning the younger crowd, too.

It was up to the networks to decide if they want lots of "broad based" or the profitable group and they leaned more to "broad based." for the simpler story, but in the end it was cheaper for NBC to pay off Conan (with $40M!) and bring Jay back to 11:30 because Jay has a ridiculous "play AND pay" clause in his contract.

NBC will now ride with the Big Dog all the way down.
getreal
09-02-2011, 06:24 PM
Kimmel maybe because of the death of Uncle Frank..

:eek: When did that happen??

I only flip across Kimmel every once in a while, but I can't stand his skits with Guillermo, so that always turns me away. But Uncle Frank was standing next to him the last time I had flipped across the channel, so his passing must have been real sudden.

But I never miss an episode of Colbert or Stewart, although sometimes I get caught up on their episodes on the weekend.
DevdogAZ
09-02-2011, 06:31 PM
:eek: When did that happen??

I only flip across Kimmel every once in a while, but I can't stand his skits with Guillermo, so that always turns me away. But Uncle Frank was standing next to him the last time I had flipped across the channel, so his passing must have been real sudden.

But I never miss an episode of Colbert or Stewart, although sometimes I get caught up on their episodes on the weekend.
Uncle Frank passed a little over a week ago. Jimmy's been in repeats for a couple weeks, so if you flipped by during that time, you were seeing a rerun.
berkchops516
09-06-2011, 12:46 AM
Sometimes I wish they would have guest hosts while he is out. Let John Oliver or Asif Mandvi host sometimes.
zalusky
09-06-2011, 10:25 AM
Sometimes I wish they would have guest hosts while he is out. Let John Oliver or Asif Mandvi host sometimes.

I think his staff would enjoy some vacation as well. I think its a combination of ratings being lower around the holidays, and the basic need to take vacation. They do a lot of research putting together those shows in addition to the comic timing of how they play it.

I actually enjoy having a John break once in a while to catch up on everything else.
Steveknj
09-06-2011, 10:46 AM
Sometimes I wish they would have guest hosts while he is out. Let John Oliver or Asif Mandvi host sometimes.

Years ago, they used to have Corell or Colbert sub for him. The only one of the current crew I could see subbing for him would be Oliver. But I think it's fine they take a couple of weeks off toward the end of August.
jilter
09-06-2011, 09:57 PM
He does also announce on the show that they will be away for the next week or 2 weeks as the case may be. He certainly did just that before this break.

Funny that I missed that - then again - there is always a lot of commotion here during his show, I don't know why.....I should watch in middle of the day I suppose.