“The Daily Show” as it exists today nearly came undone when Jon Stewart clashed with the show’s staff after taking over as host in 1999. When Stewart took the reins, he didn’t realize “a lot of the people who worked there were assholes,” he told Stephen Colbert Friday in an on-stage conversation benefiting the Montclair Film Festival in New Jersey.Stewart thought there would be room to improvise and take his own approach to the show, but apparently that wasn’t initially the case.
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