--- title: Barack Obama Daily Show Appearance Is Last With Jon Stewart description: President Obama made his final appearance on 'The Daily Show' with host Jon Stewart on Tuesday. canonical: https://time.com/3966905/barack-obama-jon-stewart-daily-show-final/ author: Jack Linshi article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-07-21T22:19:19.000Z article:modified_time: 2023-12-13T04:07:47.000Z article:section: Politics og:title: President Obama, Jon Stewart Share 'Daily Show' Stage One Last Time og:description: "I’m going to issue an executive order. 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Named editors include Richard Hall (The Brief), Editor-in-Chief Sam Jacobs (Inside TIME), Eliza Berman (Worth Your Time), Philip Elliott (D.C. Brief), Justin Worland (Future Proof) and Harry Booth (In the Loop). Health Matters is written by TIME's health desk. #### How do I sign up for a TIME newsletter? Go to time.com/newsletters, choose the newsletters you want and enter your email address. There is no cost and no subscription requirement. ### Sources * TIME Newsletters: [time.com/newsletters](/c/time-nl-network-2026q3/newsletters?i=6ece0cd8-b1a2-42df-aced-58e2bb0be3e5&cr=time-nl-network-2026q3-v1) ## Video: Know Right Now: Trevor Noah Will Replace John Stewart On The Daily Show [Watch (HLS stream): Know Right Now: Trevor Noah Will Replace John Stewart On The Daily Show](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/fkWQyCAv.m3u8) (1:01)  _Published 2015-03-30. Trevor Noah, a young South African comedian who has been a contributor on The Daily Show for barely four months, will replace Jon Stewart as host of the Comedy Central satirical news show._  by [Jack Linshi](https://time.com/author/jack-linshi/)  ## Jack Linshi Updated: Dec 13, 2023 4:07 AM UTCPublished: Jul 21, 2015 10:19 PM UTC  by [Jack Linshi](https://time.com/author/jack-linshi/)  ## Jack Linshi Updated: Dec 13, 2023 4:07 AM UTCPublished: Jul 21, 2015 10:19 PM UTC Two men who helped define liberal frustration over politics sat down on Tuesday to talk retirement, foreign policy and healthcare, as one prepares to leave the _The Daily_ _Show_ and the other the White House. For the seventh and final time, President Obama shared the _Daily Show_ stage with host Jon Stewart, whose successor [Trevor Noah](http://time.com/3766915/trevor-noah-tweets-outrage/) will take over the Comedy Central show next month. “I can’t believe you’re leaving before me. I’m going to issue an executive order,” Obama joked on the New York City set. “Jon Stewart cannot leave the show. It’s being challenged in the courts,” he said to laughter from the studio audience. The commander-in-chief also took time to sell the proposed [Iran nuclear deal](http://time.com/3959052/iran-nuclear-deal-barack-obama/), arguing that Republican critics seem to believe “if you had brought \[former Vice President\] Dick Cheney to the negotiations, everything would be fine.” Obama also told Stewart about “a bunch of other things we want to get done” for his last year and a half as President, including tackling climate change and fuel efficiency standards, in hopes that he can persuade China and India to reduce their emissions. Obama added that he knows not all goals will be reached before he leaves office, but that the country would still be better off than it was before. “If we lose sight of that,” Obama said, “then we’re feeding into this narrative that there’s nothing we can do.” _Read Next:_ [_A Brief History of Obama’s Daily Show Appearances_](http://time.com/3966335/a-brief-history-of-obamas-daily-show-appearances/?iid=time%5Freadnext) ### See Jon Stewart's Career Over the Years  Jon Stewart takes the reins as anchor of The Daily Show in 1999. Comedy Central/Everett  Stewart gets a cameo as Kevin Gerrity in the 1999 Adam Sandler movie Big Daddy. Columbia  Jay Leno interviews Jon Stewart on The Tonight Show With Jay Leno in 2000. NBC/Getty Images  Stewart plays Marion Frank Stokes in the 2002 black comedy Death to Smoochy Warner Bros.  Jon Stewart and his team win the first of many Emmys for The Daily Show in 2003. Chris Weeks—FilmMagic/Getty Images  Jon Stewart hosts the 78th Academy Awards in 2006. Academy of Motion Picture Arts—WireImage/Getty Images  Stewart has a cameo as himself on The Simpsons in 2008 in the episode "E Pluribus Wiggum." Fox  Steven Colbert and Jon Stewart host the Rally To Restore Sanity And/Or Fear on the National Mall on Oct. 30, 2010 in Washington, DC. Win McNamee—Getty Images  Jon Stewart interviews President Barack Obama on The Daily Show at the Harman Center for the Arts in Washington, DC, Oct. 26, 2010. Jim Watson—AFP/Getty Images  Jon Stewart speaks at the 51st USO Armed Forces Gala & Gold Medal Dinner on Dec. 13, 2012 in New York City. Michael Loccisano—Getty Images  Stewart makes his directorial debut in the 2014 drama Rosewater. Open Road Films  Jon Stewart announces his retirement for the end of 2015. Comedy Central [_Listen to the most important stories of the day_](http://time.com/newsletter/the-brief/autoplay/?xid=spl-fullbrief-article) ## Transcript [ MUSIC ] So we are very pleased to welcome our newest contributor from South Africa, Mr. Trevor Noah. Trevor, thanks for joining us. [ APPLAUSE ] Nice to see you. Welcome, sir. No, no, no, seriously. I've been holding my arms like this since I got here. I never thought I'd be more afraid of police here than in South Africa. It's your Ebola, my friend. No no, no no. South Africa, John. We haven't had a case in over eighteen years. In fact, my friends warned me. They were like, Trevor, don't go, don't go to the US. You'll catch Ebola and I was like, you know what guys? Just because they had a few cases of Ebola doesn't mean we should cut off travel there. That would be ignorant, right? [ LAUGH ] In my heart I know, it is time for someone to have that opportunity. And, [ NOISE ]. It's, it's been an, an, absolute privilege. It's been the honor of my professional life and, I thank you for, for watching it. 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