A comedian first: The conflicted legacy of Jon Stewart

In a 2011 profile of Jon Stewart — really one of the first not explicitly right-wing things to cover Stewart in a way that was anything other than hagiography, which is mildly incredible when you consider he’d been doing his Daily Show thing for 12 years — Tom Junod came up with the Jon Stewart Game. It’s relatively simple: “Start telling his story and see how long it takes you to compare him to someone he should feel really uncomfortable being compared to.”
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