"Appearing on television 22 minutes a night clearly broke me," Stewart says. "I'm pretty sure I can produce a few minutes of content every now and again."
When they ran out of room for rescue animals in their home, Tracey Stewart and her husband, former Daily Show host Jon Stewart, bought a farm. Her new book is Do Unto Animals.
The self-deprecating host of Comedy Central's The Nightly Show says it took a few months to get comfortable in his new role. "People are holding your feet to the fire immediately," he says.
The host of the political satire program for 16 years ended his run with many of the personalities who had either helped him make the jokes or been on the receiving end of them over the years.
How do you say goodbye to TV's smartest satirist, especially when he seems determined not to get too sentimental? You invite everyone who's ever been a correspondent, and a surprise guest or two.
As Stewart says goodbye, Fresh Air replays parts of interviews with the host. "I don't know that there will ever be anything that I will ever be as well-suited for," he said.
The set tells "an important story about how political satire and news as humor made 'The Daily Show' a trusted news source for a generation," the D.C. museum devoted to news said.
Stewart, the show's host, called Noah, the man named to succeed him, "incredibly thoughtful and ... funny." Noah had been criticized for the tone and content of some of his tweets.
Soon after it was announced that Noah will host The Daily Show, it emerged that some of his tweets mocked women and Jews — tweets that critics have called sexist and anti-Semitic.