Late-night Talk Shows (or What Keeps Me up at Night)

By Humorinamerica @HumorInAmerica

Goodbye Jon Stewart... or goodbye Daily Show... or goodbye Jon Stewart's Daily Show... would have liked to hear him talk about the first Republican debate...

Originally posted on Johns Hopkins University Press Blog:

Guest post by Rebecca Krefting

I'm a worrier. I worry that I will sleep walk and chug turpentine ( it happens). I worry that I will throw myself off a cliff given the right opportunity (that's a thing). I worry that my neighbor's cat will give me poison ivy (that's for real). And I worry about the state of late-night television in the coming years. Without Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert's conservative alter ego, where are we headed, what can we expect, and where exactly will I find my nightly dose of satire?

Late-night talk shows (or what keeps me up at night) Jon Stewart's run on The Daily Show ends next week. The last taping will be on August 6th, and millions will be tuning in for Stewart's farewell show. Though the numbers are not in yet, I wouldn't be surprised if viewer ratings rivaled David Letterman's final show last May. Relatedly, in December 2014, after...