John Stewart recently weighed in on the

future of his show and the tone he takes

isn’t necessarily like the best news if

you’re a big fan of the Daily Show. So,

take a look.

Do you think that Sky Dance would get

rid of The Daily Show after the merger

goes?

Sky Dance, the company that’s coming in.

Boy, that’s uh that’s a good question. I

I don’t I have, you know, unfortunately,

we haven’t heard anything from them.

They haven’t called me and said like,

“Don’t get too comfortable in that

office, Steuart.” You know, but I’ve let

me tell you something. I’ve been kicked

out of establishments than that. We’ll

land on our feet. No, I I honestly don’t

know. I think we’re the only sort of in

like life that exists on a current basis

other than like South Park, but

reruns of the office.

It’s the only thing on there. I’d like

to think we we bring enough value

to the property. Like if they’re looking

at it as as purely a real estate

transaction, I think we bring a lot of

value, but that may not be their

consideration. I don’t know. They may

sell the whole place for parts. I just

don’t know. We’ve all got a surmisal

about like who actually is owning it and

what his ideology is, but ideology may

not play a part. I don’t I just don’t

know. Yeah. So, look, he he’s not like

sure that something bad is going to

happen, but he clearly seems to think

it’s a serious possibility. I mean, if

they were to get rid of I What is Comedy

Central at this point?

Well, what is Comedy Central right now

is what they’re talking about, right?

Comedy Central.

Yeah. Yeah. No, that’s a good point.

But, but

only original program on a television

network.

Sure. Sure. Um, I think it would it

would be mad. And again, just like with

Col Bear, who we talked about earlier,

Stewart has done a lot of critical

commentary of these companies giving

Donald Trump just massive multi-million

dollar bribes so that he won’t shut down

their mergers and that sort of thing.

Um, he talked recently about the

Paramount, uh, what was referred to by a

guest, uh, Steve Croft, former 60

Minutes reporter as a shakedown. Um, and

yeah, that’s the way they’ve been

describing it because that’s what it is.

Our government is functioning in a quasi

mafiaesque way. And for all the many

times that they’ve crowed about like

legalized comedy, no cancel culture,

they want to shut down all of the the

the prominent and popular voices that

criticize them. And so Trump will 100%

use the power of the government in

pursuit of that. What do you think about

John Stewart? I mean, so John Stewart is

in the original fiber of Comedy Central,

and I am not talking about the Daily

Show. I’m talking about short attention

span theater like which he host which

was a thousand years ago, right?

Um he h he left Apple over very similar

reasons when Apple did show up and say

you can’t talk about this.

Yeah.

He was doing the problem with John

Stewart and he left because of that

exact reason and he went to comedy

central who kind of was like you want to

come back you can do it let’s do it and

he has not only the daily show but the

weekly show which is his podcast that he

does through comedy central and it’s

really good and people should listen to

it. It’s great. It’s fantastic. John

sent me an episode and I was like, I

watch I listen to it. It was fantastic.

Fantastic. Um, and we talk about it on

his uh No, we don’t. We talk about the

same subject on his Patreon or whatever.

Anyway, so I think with this scenario,

like

Paramount has a lot of difficult

decisions to make, right? And I think

they could make them in ways that didn’t

overlap so much with uh what a somewhat

cynical eye would very obviously see as

like bribing Donald Trump over a 60

minutes episode where it was like you

have to prove malice in order to win

these things in my experience from what

I know. And there is no malice. I mean

malice is so difficult to prove. So they

just gave him $16 million.

And like I can’t overstate the

reputation of Sky Dance’s CEO as just

and that’s Ellison’s kid as like this is

just a vanity project for this guy.

Yeah.

And this in many ways if you’re looking

for a narrative is a win for Silicon

Valley over the San Fernando Valley.

The Silicon Valley folks own

the entirety of entertainment now from

Apple TV to Amazon Prime to now Oracle

Money allowing them to swoop in and buy

it. Whereas before GE on NBC, right? GE

uh is trying to sell you microwaves.

Just watch any episode of 30 Rock and

you’ll see a pretty good analysis of

that. And they would do it for in

pharmaceutical company money and all

that stuff. But this is just the like

it’s a pleasure project for someone

who’s the scion of a technology company.

Yeah,

that is how sad it is. And there’s tons

of uh Tik Tok and Instagram handles you

should follow about the disintegration

of Los Angeles and the entertainment

industry’s ability to shoot anything in

this town. Tons of people are going to

be out of work. And what are they going

to be replaced with? me and John gh I

mean that’s the truth just

up

the business model of Silicon Valley is

to instead of there being like four

corporations that own five TV networks

right now there are the same people are

just there’s like a like one company

owns every YouTube show yes there’s more

YouTube channels but one company owns

the entire or the entire org chart

and the things they do to tinker with it

have benefits and they have downsides.

Like the old version was like there’s a

ballast that keeps anything from going

too crazy one way or another. Now we are

just by def definitionally in our own

algorithmic bubbles. Kaisen is the

biggest late night host and YouTube ad

revenue trumps all the network’s ad

revenue by a lot.

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