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I'm joined by my fellow banterer, Michael Schneider, of TV Guide magazine.

Hello, Michael.

Hi, Kim.

Well, so, wow, what a news week.

I'm going to start out with my personal heartbreak, which is John Stewart announcing, as people know by now, that he is going to go off the air.

But if I am heartbroken, I think Comedy Central is extra heartbroken because

that show, the Daily Show, is absolutely a staple of that network. Yeah, I mean, in the course

of a year, they're losing both John Stewart and, of course, Stephen Colbert, who's moving over to

CBS. Not to mention John Oliver is gone. And they didn't lock in John Oliver, who moved over to

HBO. So suddenly it's a wide open playing field. And yeah, as you mentioned, The Daily Show, huge for them. It's huge in the demos as well. Young People watch the Daily Show. Number one show among young men, the coveted very young male demographics. So they're going to have to be very careful in deciding who's going to replace John Stewart atop that show. Yeah, and I know a lot of names have come up, and, you know, I sort of squint and try to imagine it,

and I can't quite, but then again, John Oliver really stepped in when John Stewart went off to do Rosewater.

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