The Jon Stewart Show (1993)
The Jon Stewart Show (1993)
Plot.
The Jon Stewart Show was a late night talk show hosted by comedian Jon Stewart. The program premiered on MTV in 1993 as a thirty-minute daily program. At the end of its first season, MTV's then-corporate sibling Paramount Television retooled the program, extended it to sixty minutes, and used it as a replacement for the cancelled Arsenio Hall Show for the 1994-95 television season. While it garnered high ratings on MTV, in fact becoming its second most popular show behind Beavis and Butt-Head, The Jon Stewart Show was not a success in syndication and was cancelled in 1995.
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Cast & Crew.
Jon Stewart
Self - Host / Self / Host (Self)
Howard Feller
Sidekick / Self - Announcer / Self
Carl Burrows
Clauss Von Johnson / Jean Claude Von Johnson / Russ Johnson
Paul Sampson
Baywatch Moments Comedy Sketch / New Fox Pilots Comedy Skit
Frank Whaley
Self
Robert Klein
Self
Parker Posey
Self - Guest
Moira Kelly
Self
Media.
Details.
Release DateOctober 25, 1993
StatusEnded
Seasons3
Episodes4
Running Time30m
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Wiki.
The Jon Stewart Show is a late night talk show that was hosted by comedian Jon Stewart. The program premiered on MTV in 1993 as a 30-minute daily offering and became one of the network’s more popular shows.
Through a series of events that began with Arsenio Hall stepping down from his late-night talk show and the acquisition of Paramount Communications by Viacom, the parent company of MTV at the time, The Jon Stewart Show was retooled and launched in daily syndication for the 1994-1995 season as a 60-minute program with the first episode airing on September 12, 1994. It was canceled at the end of the season by distributor Paramount Domestic Television and aired its final episode on June 23, 1995.