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The Daily Show will look a little different when viewers tune in on Monday night.
Instead of Jon Stewart, who has been anchoring the Comedy Central show on Mondays for the past two months, correspondent Jordan Klepper will be behind the desk this Monday. He'll continue as host on Tuesday and Wednesday, and Stewart will close out the week on Thursday night.
The schedule for this week is an inverse of how The Daily Show has operated since Stewart's return in February — he has anchored the show on Mondays, and members of the show's news team have held down the rest of the week.
The switch is likely to be for this week only. Stewart is slated to be a guest on John Mulaney Presents: Everybody's in L.A. on Netflix this week, a set of live talk shows that are part of the streamer's Netflix Is a Joke festival in Los Angeles.
Stewart's return has given The Daily Show a sizable ratings boost over its averages in 2023, when a series of guest hosts anchored the program following Trevor Noah's departure. Two months into the Stewart-and-correspondents arrangement, the show is averaging about 538,000 viewers per night, a 60 percent improvement on the 2023 average.
Stewart will continue hosting once a week through the presidential election.
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