--- description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. title: The Daily Show image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7bbc826b25e87635/69869f1306f2c11ce8330465/t100_tv_daily-show-with-jon-stewart1.jpg?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- Aug 11, 2014 # _The Daily Show_ by [TIME Staff](/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close  Everett Jon Stewart’s nightly fake-newscast has become a bold, truth-telling _Onion_ of the air for a cynical, disaffected, not-as-ill-informed-as-you-might-think audience. And while we journalists often characterize the show as being about politics, it’s really about us: the show has nailed the reflexive media impulse to rationalize conventional wisdom, to sensationalize, and to reduce everything important to a branded phrase and a dandy graphic. (“Mess O’Potamia,” e.g., for the war in Iraq.) Stewart and company have found the B.S. detector that stenographic media outlets seem to have thrown in the trash, cleaned it off, souped it up, and cranked up its sensitivity to 11. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collections/all-time-100-tv-shows/3101518/the-daily-show/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/all-time-100-tv-shows/3101518/the-daily-show/"},"headline":"The Daily Show","datePublished":"2014-08-11T20:40:40.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-02T23:01:10.218Z","description":"","url":"https://time.com/collections/all-time-100-tv-shows/3101518/the-daily-show/","keywords":["Late Night","Comedy","News","The Daily Show","Jon Stewart"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7bbc826b25e87635/69869f1306f2c11ce8330465/t100_tv_daily-show-with-jon-stewart1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"creator":"TIME Staff","articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7bbc826b25e87635/69869f1306f2c11ce8330465/t100_tv_daily-show-with-jon-stewart1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}],"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":"https://time.com/collections/all-time-100-tv-shows/3101518/the-daily-show/","name":"The Daily Show"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"The Daily Show","description":"Stewart and company have found the B.S. detector that stenographic media outlets seem to have thrown in the trash, cleaned it off, souped it up, and cranked up its sensitivity to 11.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/1rsIb714/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2007-09-04T17:46:32.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/1rsIb714.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/collections/all-time-100-tv-shows/3101518/the-daily-show/","duration":"PT33S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/collections/all-time-100-tv-shows/3101518/the-daily-show/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```