Jon Stewart on His Journey from Comedian to Activist, the Legacy of ‘the Daily Show,’ and the State of the Modern Media Landscape

People's Party with Talib Kweli

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🗓️ 13 March 2023

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Voice of a generation, Jon Stewart joins Talib Kweli at the Blue Note Jazz Club to talk about his journey from stand-up comedian to activist (and back to stand-up comedian). He reflects on the legacy of The Daily Show, the modern media landscape, and his new show The Problem With Jon Stewart. Stewart also reflects on the passing of the Daily Show torch to Trevor Noah, and shares how he balances his passion for standup, making movies, and breaking down the news. Stewart also gives us insight into the struggles he faced helping to pass the Pact Act. For old fans of The Daily Show and new fans of The Problem with Jon Stewart—as well as anyone who enjoys the art of great satire—this is a must-listen.

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0:00.0	Peace and love party people. This is Talib Kuala Lee to BKMC, the MCEO.
0:03.8	You are about to hear an excerpt of People's Party hosted by me and my lovely and talented co-host, Ms. Jasmine Lee. What up Jasmine?
0:10.4	What up Peeps to hear our entire combo and all of our episodes with stars from the game to Lil Kim, to Anthony Anderson, to my sister Tiffany Haddish,
0:18.5	subscribe to the Luminary channel on Apple Podcasts.
0:21.5	Now I want to shout out Derek Hamilton.
0:24.1	Derek Hamilton is a great guy that's so smart.
0:27.5	A lot of people know about him. He's a pro-black anti-racist, economist, very smart, into social justice, but knows his shit
0:35.7	when it comes to the numbers. Pro-reparations guy. So we're going to make an argument for reparations.
0:40.2	He's the guy to make the argument.
0:42.0	Lava Burton is a cast against on the show with his book. It all started with slave labor.
0:48.3	Because everything starts with slave labor.
0:50.8	That's right.
0:51.3	It's the joke. You speak about reparations on your show. Thank you for doing that.
0:55.6	You have a whole reparations episode. You discuss how racism is a spectrum that ends at racism on both sides.
1:01.9	That's right.
1:03.3	Tony Morrison did a, had a viral moment years back.
1:06.5	Right.
1:06.8	As she's talking about in the discussions of racism, how we solve it, please take me out of it.
1:10.8	This is the oppressor problems. White people problems. A white people problem.
1:13.9	Right.
1:14.0	To solve.
1:14.9	And you took that to heart.
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