Jon Stewart?

[jilter]

What happened?
If he is away, shouldn't they announce it on his website?
I don't understand.

[hefe]

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]

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]

If Jon announced on his website every time he went on vacation, it would be a livejournal.

[pdhenry]

Doesn't Stewart usually take off weeks with a federal holiday?

[DevdogAZ]

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]

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]

+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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

+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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

Though one exception is that during the writers' strike, both Leno & Letterman DID air some ancient episodes.. (I still have 'em recorded.)

[Fleegle]

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]

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]

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.