One-trick pony Jon Stewart claims Apple TV+ canceled his show because ‘they didn’t want me to say things that might get me in trouble’
One-trick pony Jon Stewart is again claiming that Apple TV+ canceled his show not because basically nobody was watching it either in its original form or in its reboot attempt in a second season, but because “they didn’t want me to say things that might get me in trouble.”
Ahead of his return as host of Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show,” Jon Stewart stopped by “CBS Mornings” to explain why it was finally time to return to his old job.
“I wanted a place to unload thoughts as we get into this election season,” Stewart said. “I thought I was going to do it over at — they call it Apple TV+. It’s a television enclave, very small. It’s like living in Malibu. But they decided…they felt that they didn’t want me to say things that might get me in trouble.”
Stewart debuted his Apple series, “The Problem With Jon Stewart,” in 2021 as part of a multi-year first-look deal he signed with the streaming arm of the tech giant. The first season of the show aired episodes every two weeks, while the second season switched to a weekly format. “The Problem” had Stewart exploring a single topic with each episode.
MacDailyNews Take: All of these watery claims – notably lacking any proof – are excreted from just one source, Jon Stewart, who is, by now, clearly a one-trick pony (running back yet again to The Daily Show after a failed film career and then a twice failed Apple TV+ show) – and a bitter pony at that. Stewart’s bitterness is likely due to being repeatedly rejected by both the audience and eventually by the people who bankrolled him until even they, likely fans themselves, had to stop flushing cash and cancel his eminently ignorable blather.
Fun facts: Apple let Jon Stewart say things that might get him in trouble for a full first season that nobody watched. Apple then allowed Jon Stewart to try to reboot the show for a second season, again allowing him to say things that might get him in trouble, and paying him while nobody watched again.
The Problem with Jon Stewart was canceled because the audience didn’t give a shit about it.
Jon Stewart is too small – he’s a Shetland one-trick pony – to simply accept his cancelation, so he runs to a sympathetic media (itself failing) spreading a cover story, sans proof, while he trots back to the only place he’s ever had any “success,” The Daily Show, a ratings-less show an a tiny, ever-shrinking cable outlet that nobody watches, that today is nothing more than just a generator of short TikTok clips that target a small echo chamber of a certain political bent.
How to save face when your low-viewership flop is finally canceled (after a bonus season gifted by Apple)? Drop the threadbare “creative differences” into the complicit press and let the echo chamber do the work. pic.twitter.com/GgBVGCREeE
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