The site of Jon Stewart’s most recent battle with Arby’s is no longer a stronghold of the fast food franchise. The Hollywood location that Stewart dubbed “Mount Poopmore” after it attempted to lovingly pay tribute to him and Jimmy Kimmel is now shuttered.
“Jon and Jimmy were here,” Arby’s posted on its Sunset Blvd. marquee back in May, the day after Jimmy Kimmel Live! aired a segment in which Kimmel drops a carpooling Stewart off at the chain he loves to hate.
Today, that same board reads “Farewell Hollywood, TY for 55 great years.”
In what KTLA called “the end of an era,” the location at 5920 Sunset Blvd. permanently closed its doors on June 17, 2024. The decision was the result of lingering financial hardship following the pandemic.
“I really feel we would have closed during the pandemic, except for the federal loans,” explained 91-year-old original owner Marilyn Leviton in an interview with the news station. “Arby’s is demanding more technical equipment, which we can’t afford.”
Stewart’s beef with the fast food chain dates back to his original run on The Daily Show. Where other brands might have sent “cease and desist” letters, Arby’s lapped up the free publicity, and ultimately took out ads on the show in response. (Back when Stewart announced his retirement from TDS in 2015, the sandwich chain even offered him a job.)
On the May episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Stewart implied Arby’s was “a diarrhea factory”—prompting Kimmel to defend the chain, revealing that he’d had Arby’s cater his 30th birthday.
Following the surprise Jimmy Kimmel Live! appearance, Arby’s shared their marquee tribute to social media, tagging the two hosts and vowing, “This is now a historic landmark.”
Barely 15 minutes later, Stewart reposted the image, bestowing a name upon the “landmark”: “Mount Poopmore.”
“I’m awfully sorry that it came to this,” Leviton told KTLA in an interview. “I think we did a good job for 55 years.”
KTLA reported that the Arby’s location was “the only fast food restaurant on Sunset Boulevard that actually had a view of the Hollywood sign” when it opened. That was on January 5, 1969—back when Stewart was barely six years old.
