Overview

• Josh Johnson, who joined The Daily Show’s writing staff in 2017 and became an on-air correspondent in 2024, will anchor this week’s Tuesday–Thursday episodes with guests Rob Franklin, Samara Cyn and Christopher McDonald.
• He joins a Tuesday–Thursday lineup alongside correspondents Ronny Chieng, Jordan Klepper, Michael Kosta and Desi Lydic, while Jon Stewart continues to host Mondays.
• Since returning in February 2024, Jon Stewart has anchored one episode per week and launched The Weekly Show podcast to stabilize the franchise.
• Comedy Central adopted the rotating host model after Trevor Noah’s 2022 departure to cultivate internal talent and maintain audience engagement.
• These programming moves follow Paramount’s disputed, “purely financial” cancellation of Stephen Colbert’s Late Show and occur as the company pursues an $8.4 billion merger with Skydance Media.