Jon Stewart: “That’s Not Cancel Culture”

The New Yorker Radio Hour

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Politics, Arts, News, Wnyc, Books, David, Storytelling, Society & Culture, Yorker, New, Remnick

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🗓️ 19 October 2021

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

“The Daily Show with Jon Stewart” defined an era. For more than sixteen years, Stewart and his many correspondents skewered American politics. At the 2021 New Yorker Festival, Stewart spoke with David Remnick about his new show, “The Problem with Jon Stewart”; the potential return of Donald Trump to the White House; and the controversy around cancel culture in comedy. “What do we do for a living?” Stewart asks, of comedians. “We criticize, we postulate, we opine, we make jokes, and now other people are having their say. And that’s not cancel culture, that’s relentlessness.”

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0:00.0	This is The New Yorker Radio Hour, a co-production of WNYC Studios and The New Yorker.
0:09.2	Welcome to The New Yorker Radio Hour. I'm David Remnick. Let's start here.
0:13.6	This is the Daily Show with John Stewart.
0:19.5	From the 2000 election to 9-11 and the Iraq War,
0:23.3	right up until Donald Trump rode that escalator in the Republican campaign.
0:27.8	The Daily Show with John Stewart often drove political conversation in this country.
0:32.5	And Stewart's approach to political entertainment has proliferated all over
0:36.5	from John Oliver to Samantha trevor noah and more
0:40.3	his new show on apple tv plus the problem with john stewart is out now and i spoke to john stewart the other day
0:47.6	at the new yorker festival now where you've been what's your life been like you cut out in 2015
0:54.1	there were a lot of disappointed people but things come to an end um Now, where you've been? What's your life been like? You cut out in 2015.
0:54.2	There were a lot of disappointed people, but things come to an end.
0:57.7	Well, it was interesting.
1:00.0	It was funny when I went back to do the show that we're doing now for Apple, and the first
1:05.2	day that we were there, you know, you have an audience interaction generally before the show.
1:10.2	You'll go out and just say hello and you'll introduce yourself to everybody and kind of take some questions.
1:15.0	And one of the questions somebody said to me is, you know, you've missed so much over these last, you know, five or six years.
1:24.1	And I had to remind them, you know, I am alive.
1:27.4	Like it's not, I don't actually not,
1:30.1	I haven't been on television, but I too had to take precautions during COVID and suffered the
1:37.2	stress and frustration and anger of the Trump years. You, you live all that. But you knew what they're asking.
1:45.1	You were, you were a nightly presence for 15, 16 years, and then, and then not.
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