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Jon Stewart

lines on the record: 54
first: 2020-06-25
most recent: 2020-06-25
sittings or episodes: 1
sources: podcast

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“Well, by that point, I think I'd be so exasperated with the show he's been putting on. I mean, I think it's not like the show he's doing now is different than the show he did in 2015. So I imagine the difficulty there is, you know, there was very little difference from Tulsa than was him coming down the escalator. There's really been no change tonally, no change in the kinds of ham-handed showmanship. But this is during a pandemic is the right time to do a show with no audience. Now you know how it feels. He went out there with no audience, and that's what we'd be doing. It's always, the show always existed in the space between the meeting in the room and how they design what you see on television. So I'm sure we would have deconstructed what you saw on television versus how they had planned it.”
2020-06-25 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 392 — Jon Stewart · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, I mean, a very specific vein of it. And because it did well in the ratings, you'll see more of it. And they're all really impressive people. And what I like about what they've been able to do is they've been putting their own authenticity and spark and creativity into it to create and evolve it into new places. That's all you can ask of. That's really all that we did. We took what It's not like we invented the idea of commenting on political and media shenanigans in a humorous way. Hopefully we took the inspiration that we saw from other places. Knowled did it slightly differently or evolved it in a way that advanced the ball rather than fumbled it and seeing them do that and take it and elevate it from there is really nice.”
2020-06-25 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 392 — Jon Stewart · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“But I felt like the redundancy of political coverage, the corrosiveness of the cycle And my inability to evolve the show in a way that I thought would be a novel way of looking at it, I felt like I was going to, no matter who the players were, do something. Semi boilerplate and I felt like the show didn't deserve that, the audience didn't deserve that. They needed a new voice, a new enthusiasm, a new perspective. And, you know, Trevor's done that and more. So I've been really pleased with not just the decision for me creatively and personally, but also for all the great voices that have come out to do it in a more engaged way.”
2020-06-25 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 392 — Jon Stewart · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, no part of why I left was that I didn't think I could bring what would be necessary for, you know, was it an unusual election because Donald Trump is an unusual figure, of course. But the general structures and parameters of how the election played out were still also not unrecognizable from the previous four elections that we had done. Systemically, you know, You can change the players, but if it's all played on a super fund site, it's still sort of a polluted endeavor. No offense.”
2020-06-25 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 392 — Jon Stewart · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source