After scuttling a months-long search for a new host, the Paramount Global network said it had enlisted Jon Stewart, who presided over the late-night mainstay’s most popular era, to serve as its host on Monday nights throughout the 2024 election cycle and to run the program. He is expected to oversee the program through 2025. Various “Daily Show” correspondents will host the program Tuesday through Thursday nights, and Jen Flanz, the current executive producer, will continue her duties on the show.
And rake in millions and become a cult figure. Really ruined him let me tell you what.
Sure he was successful in his second career as a Fox hack (though ultimately ejected from that as well and bumped down another level to a twitter video guy) - it’s a lot to ask to not just take someone down so hard they have to not only leave their job and go work at a different kind of company, but can never be successful again.
He was a hack at CNN. Jon Stewart may have gotten him fired, but you can’t seriously look at Tucker Carlson and say Jon ruined his career. Listen, I hate the man with a passion, but he’s living high on the hog.
Like I said, he ruined his career in the mainstream media, after which he did what so many people who couldn’t make it in the mainstream have done before him and went into the less prestigious right-wing propaganda industry where standards are lower if you’re willing to say abhorrent things. Tucker was indeed very successful at that second career and is a rich man (though he was already with the Swanson frozen food fortune) but I don’t think that invalidates the initial takedown.
If you’re a cook fired from a steakhouse downtown, and get hired at a cafe/restaurant near the town college’s campus, you haven’t changed careers. Someone’s opinion of the two restaurants doesn’t change that.