No. 57 in America · Week of November 9, 2026

Jon Stewart

Comedian, host of The Daily Show

Jon Stewart is a comedian and the longtime host of The Daily Show.

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Rank: 59.5
Score of 100: 102K
Wikipedia readers, 28 days: None
YouTube subscribers

Photo: PhilipRomanoPhoto, CC BY-SA 4.0

Score breakdown

59.5 of 100

Nine parts, measured fresh each week. This is where Jon Stewart's points came from, and the evidence behind each one.

Reach: 21.0 / 30; 102K Wikipedia readers in 28 days; no channel of their own, so Wikipedia alone at 80%.
Momentum: 3.5 / 5; Readers up 32% on the 28 days before.
Debate activity: 8.0 / 20; Debates on big occasions: A few high-profile debates rather than a regular practice.
Record: 6.5 / 10; 2 sourced debates on this page. One earns 40%; five earn it all.
Opposition: 7.0 / 10; 1 ranked opponent, 2 other notable opponents. Bigger opponents count for more.
Format: 9.0 / 10; Best 2 debates: formal debate, broadcast debate.
Results: 2.5 / 5; No audience vote on record, so this is even.
Range: 2.0 / 5; 1 subject debated.
Recency: 0.0 / 5; Latest sourced debate: 2012. Full marks within a year, none after ten.

Debate record

Debates on big occasions

The Daily Show
Satire
Media criticism

Took on Bill O'Reilly in a live, presidential-style debate in 2012.

Stewart hosted The Daily Show from 1999 to 2015 and part-time since 2024, and The Problem with Jon Stewart on Apple TV+ from 2021 to 2023.

He has won 25 Primetime Emmy Awards.

Wikipedia

On the record

Notable debates

2012
October 6, 2012
The Rumble in the Air-Conditioned Auditorium
Formal debate
Against Bill O'Reilly · George Washington University
A 90-minute debate in presidential format, streamed online, on topics from health care to the Middle East. Both said nothing changed their minds.
Source: The GW Hatchet
2004
October 15, 2004
Crossfire is hurting America
Broadcast debate
Against Tucker Carlson and Paul Begala · CNN, Crossfire
Booked to promote a book, Stewart instead argued with both hosts that the show's partisan format was failing public discourse. CNN cancelled Crossfire the following January.
Source: Wikipedia

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Notable debates

2012

October 6, 2012

The Rumble in the Air-Conditioned Auditorium

Formal debate

Against Bill O'Reilly · George Washington University

A 90-minute debate in presidential format, streamed online, on topics from health care to the Middle East. Both said nothing changed their minds.

Source: The GW Hatchet

2004

October 15, 2004

Crossfire is hurting America

Broadcast debate

Against Tucker Carlson and Paul Begala · CNN, Crossfire

Booked to promote a book, Stewart instead argued with both hosts that the show's partisan format was failing public discourse. CNN cancelled Crossfire the following January.

Source: Wikipedia

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