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Posted: 2024-10-28T20:18:34Z | Updated: 2024-10-28T20:18:34Z

NEW YORK (AP) Jon Stewart isnt done skewering the news hes signed on to continue hosting The Daily Show on Mondays through the end of next year.

Paramount announced Monday that Stewart would continue hosting the Comedy Central series once a week, as hes done through much of 2024 in the runup to the U.S. presidential election.

The Emmy winner hosted The Daily Show from 1999 through 2015, delivering sharp, satirical takes on politics and current events and interviews with newsmakers.

In his return run, hes maintained his acerbic take on American politics and the presidential race, which was shaken up in July when President Joe Biden announced he would no longer seek reelection and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris as the Democratic nominee.

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His ability to cut through the noise and deliver clear-eyed insights is exactly what we need which is why we are thrilled to have him leading The Daily Show for another year, said Paramount Global co-CEO Chris McCarthy.

Stewart, who returned in February and was originally supposed to host through the November election, joked in a statement that he wanted to host every other Monday, but that he will suck it up and keep up with it weekly.

Stewart will also remain an executive producer on the show, which relies on a revolving series of hosts for the other days of the week. The Daily Show airs Mondays through Thursday at 11 p.m. Eastern on Comedy Central and streams the next day on Paramount+.