Jon Stewart Admits He Doesn't Know Future At Comedy Central As Merger Looms

"The Daily Show" big Jon Stewart admitted Thursday that he was unsure of his early astatine Comedy Central arsenic its genitor institution Paramount's merger pinch Skydance Media looms.

Stewart told listeners of his "Weekly Show" podcast that while his early pinch nan drama web whitethorn beryllium uncertain, he is judge that he will onshore connected his feet nary matter nan result of nan merger.

"Do you deliberation that Skydance would get free of 'The Daily Show’ aft nan merger?" 1 fan-submitted mobility read.

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"Boy, that's a bully question," Stewart responded. "You know, unfortunately, we haven't heard thing from them."

Stewart told his podcast viewers that he is uncertain astir his early astatine Comedy Central arsenic its genitor institution plans to merge pinch Skydance this year.

The late-night big continued, noting that while cipher astatine Skydance has told him "don't get excessively comfortable successful that office," he's still uncertain astir what comes next.

"I've been kicked retired of s---tier establishments than that. We'll onshore connected our feet," he asserted, adding, "I honestly don't know."

The late-night big quipped Comedy Central is "kind of for illustration Muzak astatine this point," adding that his show and "South Park" are nan "only benignant of life" that nan transmission seems to person astatine nan moment. The drama transmission often airs reruns of shows for illustration "The Office", "Seinfeld" and "Futurama."

Stewart began hosting "The Daily Show" connected Mondays past year. He hosted nan show from 1999 to 2015 earlier stepping down.

The aforesaid time Stewart aired his podcast, his friend and chap late-night big Stephen Colbert revealed that his show connected CBS, "The Late Show," is group to beryllium canceled adjacent May. CBS is besides nether Paramount's umbrella, and immoderate observers claimed nan cancellation was related to nan pending merger and Colbert's disapproval of Paramount settling President Donald Trump's suit against CBS News.

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"'THE LATE SHOW pinch STEPHEN COLBERT' will extremity its historical tally successful May 2026 astatine nan extremity of nan broadcast season," CBS said successful a statement. "We see Stephen Colbert irreplaceable and will discontinue 'THE LATE SHOW' franchise astatine that time. We are proud that Stephen called CBS home. He and nan broadcast will beryllium remembered successful nan pantheon of greats that graced precocious nighttime television."

Stewart hosts "The Daily Show" connected Mondays. (Brad Barket/Invision/AP)

CBS said it was "purely a financial determination against a challenging backdrop successful precocious night," adding, "It is not related successful immoderate measurement to nan show's performance, contented aliases different matters happening astatine Paramount."

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Fox News' Joseph Wulfsohn contributed to this report.