I love the guy and the courageous left-leaning progressive stances and slandering he’s doing to the you-know-who administration atm.

I think he’s up there with Ruby Setnik, Romesh Ranganathan and Stephen Colbert as my favourite leftist satirist, and his podcast is such a fun time-waster of a audio frequency too.

But I respect your opinion if you aren’t a big fan of his.

  • Tattorack@lemmy.world
    10·
    1 day ago

    He’s my favourite Green Lantern. Sure, his constructs aren’t as inventive as Hal Jordan’s, and he’s not as powerful, but I think h-… Ooooohhhh that guy. Oh…

  • katy ✨@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    1 day ago

    i liked him a lot more on the apple tv show than the daily show (though i still do love him on the daily show) but i also think that by in large he’s only as good as his writers and i thought the writing staff was FAR more intersectional and diverse on the problem.

    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
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      11 hours ago

      i never watched his show before he left, seen clips of youtube. i only ever knew his association with colbert the most.

  • treesquid@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    He started Tucker Carlson’s villain arc, which is at least hilarious. He has a higher hit rate than most but also occasionally suffers from old man syndrome. As progressive as he started, he is now an affluent old white man that’s been insulated from hardship for decades, and sometimes suffers from the lack of contact with reality that results from that.

  • DarkFuture@lemmy.worldEnglish
    371·
    2 days ago

    Guy has called out abuses of power, non-stop, for decades. What’s not to like?

    And he doesn’t just do it on his show for ratings. Guy stood the fuck up, in person, in DC, for 9/11 responders for YEARS to get them what they deserved.

  • gigastasio@sh.itjust.works
    852·
    2 days ago

    Jon is on the side of common sense and that’s his biggest advantage. If you look at his career as a whole you’ll see that he’s not afraid to call out absurdities and injustices regardless of what side of the aisle it comes from. He critiques government, not just republicans.

    Also incase you haven’t picked up on it from others, you’re using the word ‘slander’ incorrectly.

  • njm1314@lemmy.world
    181·
    2 days ago

    I generally like him, but he can be frustrating because his general mindset seems to be that of the comfortable liberal. Sure he sees problems, but he’s wealthy and comfortable and doesn’t really want the system changed because it works for him and at the end of the day that matters more than the people currently getting hurt. Order and property like all the rest.

    Thats why so many of his takes seem focused on market solutions. He’s a capitalist who refuses to acknowledge that capitalism is the inherit source of all the issues he claims to care about. So no matter how much I enjoy his wit or comedy he’ll always come across as somewhat hypocritical.

  • ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net
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    2 days ago

    Very intelligent guy. He was always aware of his privilege and used his position to fight for the right things. Amazing interviewer.

  • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
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    2 days ago

    isnt he pretty soft on israel though, people thought his stance is wierd. he does advocate for troops, but unlike Sinese hes not glorifying them at every turn, if knows Sinese is very a very frequent visitor to reddit, always promoting how he helped the troops, or how he was in forrest gump, he suddenly came on reddit just before the '24 election, so he had ulterior motive.

    • 𝕱𝖎𝖗𝖊𝖜𝖎𝖙𝖈𝖍@lemmy.world
      6·
      1 day ago

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2zbN3AuHG8

      I’m not really seeing it in this clip. Mind you, this is from 2024 but even then he seemed to understand the situation.

      This HuffPost article from July 2025 also states:

      “I feel like I’m watching something that is so self-evidently inhumane and horrific and to be told that I have to shut up because I risk the Jewish state by speaking out? I would say the opposite,” said Stewart in an interview with Jewish Currents editor-at-large Peter Beinart.

      “I think they’re putting the likelihood of a surviving Jewish state much more at risk with this type of action. I think they’re the ones being [antisemitic] … [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu, with the definition of antisemitism, would probably have to bomb himself.”

      • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
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        11 hours ago

        hes pretty careful with what he says. sacha baren cohen is another one, but i think hes a slightly more supportive of of israel, not by much though.