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This is a good point. The righteous indignation of Jon Stewart can and has moved mountains... even if at least one time it moved a smarmy fascist mountain to a significantly more detrimental platform.
He started as host 5 months after Trump announced his candidacy, less than a year after he started as a correspondent and at least 6 years after starting professional comedy. So wtf are you talking about?
I don't think anybody is going to argue that Jon Stewart isn't just an order of magnitude better at this stuff than most of his competition, but the Bush years also had a hell of a lot more going on. Plus GOP politicians were less sycophantic extensions of Bush, so he had a lot more individual personalities to work off of. I'd also say the cast in that era was just overall stronger (and smaller/more consistent iirc).
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Trevor Noah's whole run was sabotaged by the Trump presidency. It's not like they could ignore it, but Trump shit really killed the whole genre by just making it an exhausting repetition of the same story with the same jokes for years on end.