--- title: Jon Stewart Reveals 'Daily Show' Blue Paper Scribbles description: "I draw a round-headed drunk guy, or I draw me when I was in a college," he says canonical: https://time.com/3976552/jon-stewart-blue-paper-scribbles/ author: Nolan Feeney article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-07-29T13:31:39.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:22:44.675Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Jon Stewart Reveals What He Scribbles on Those Blue Papers og:description: He draws when he gets bored og:url: https://time.com/3976552/jon-stewart-blue-paper-scribbles/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta0667755ca2e103e/6987efde2dce010c0a9e1d69/jon-stewart-david-letterman.png?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: jon-stewart-david-letterman og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Jon Stewart Reveals What He Scribbles on Those Blue Papers twitter:description: He draws when he gets bored twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta0667755ca2e103e/6987efde2dce010c0a9e1d69/jon-stewart-david-letterman.png?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Jon Stewart Reveals What He Scribbles on Those Blue Papers on _The Daily Show_  by [Nolan Feeney](https://time.com/author/nolan-feeney/)  ## Nolan Feeney Jul 29, 2015 1:31 PM UTC  Comedy Central  by [Nolan Feeney](https://time.com/author/nolan-feeney/)  ## Nolan Feeney Jul 29, 2015 1:31 PM UTC With just a few more days before Jon Stewart says goodbye to _The Daily Show_, he’s letting fans in on some secrets—like what’s up with those blue papers he’s always scribbling on during the show? The papers themselves are scripts for the show, but his drawings are just some rudimentary cartoons to keep his brain busy. “I get bored, I can’t smoke anymore, so I scribble, or I doodle the same cartoons over and over again,” he explains in the above video. “What I normally do is I draw a round-headed drunk guy, or I draw me when I was in a college.” No word on what happens to the scripts _after_ he’s done sketching—Comedy Central could probably make a lot of money auctioning off Stewart’s discarded doodles. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3976552/jon-stewart-blue-paper-scribbles/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3976552/jon-stewart-blue-paper-scribbles/"},"headline":"Jon Stewart Reveals What He Scribbles on Those Blue Papers on The Daily Show","datePublished":"2015-07-29T13:31:39.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:22:44.675Z","description":"\"I draw a round-headed drunk guy, or I draw me when I was in a college\"","url":"https://time.com/3976552/jon-stewart-blue-paper-scribbles/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","The Daily Show","Jon Stewart"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta0667755ca2e103e/6987efde2dce010c0a9e1d69/jon-stewart-david-letterman.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Nolan Feeney","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/nolan-feeney/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta0667755ca2e103e/6987efde2dce010c0a9e1d69/jon-stewart-david-letterman.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"jon-stewart-david-letterman","caption":"","creditText":"Comedy Central","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3976552/jon-stewart-blue-paper-scribbles/","name":"Jon Stewart Reveals What He Scribbles on Those Blue Papers on The Daily Show"}}]}] ```