Jon Stewart, Josh Johnson Split Daily Show Desk for Shortened Week

Comedy Central’s “Best F**king News Team” is back tonight, with the first in a shortened week of new Daily Show episodes.

Jon Stewart kicks things off Monday with New York Times White House correspondents Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan, who are promoting their new book Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump.

Josh Johnson will then host The Daily Show Tuesday and Wednesday nights. This will mark Johnson’s fourth cycle behind the desk in 2026, following his previous stints the weeks of January 20, March 23, and April 27.

On Tuesday night, Johnson welcomes Lou Diamond Phillips, who is promoting the new film Gangland, which he stars in.

Wednesday brings comedian, actor, and host Jay Pharoah, who will be promoting Fox’s game show The Quiz with Balls and his new album The Odyssey.

The Daily Show will be dark Thursday, heading off a day early for an extended one-week vacation surrounding the July 4 holiday. The show is set to return Tuesday, July 7.

Johnson recently kicked off his new 34-city Comedy Band Camp Tour, following the May 22 release of his first HBO special, which spent two weeks on HBO Max’s Top Ten Most-Watched list.

The popular comic/veteran Daily Show writer joined the Comedy Central program’s host rotation midway through its 2025 run and immediately connected with viewers—particularly those in the advertiser-coveted 18–49 demo.

The Daily Show airs weeknights at 11 p.m. ET/PT on Comedy Central and is available to stream the next day on Paramount+.

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  1. SM in SF says:

    would you make Stephen Colbert guest host of the week already.

  2. Leibowitz carrying all these DEI people says:

    Just like his tribe purchased them from the ports of West Africa and sold them to the New World.

    But somehow ‘white people’ did that, even though the small hats have always had corporate power.

    The very people who talk about ‘privilege’ in white countries of the supermajority (oh who would have thunk it?) somehow missed the part where 2% of the population has most disproportionate control purely because of nepotism.

    1. Don’t look now, Zero says:

      Your white supremacist core is showing.

      Thanks for playing buzzword bingo and don’t let the door hit you on your way out, m’kay?

    2. Corrie-luv says:

      Tell me you never watched The Daily Show w/o saying you’ve never watched The Daily Show

      This is VERY tone-deaf (and racist) if you don’t know The Daily Show’s history of correspondents/contributors; they’re not perfect, but at least Comedy Central has a platform to showcase them.

      1. lol ‘muh racism’ in 2026 says:

        You….are….so…cringe.

        Nobody under 40 days this boomer cuckoldry anymore.

        Grow up

        Nobody is impressed.

      2. You, a millenial zero? says:

        Telling an older person to grow up?

        Connie has more maturity in her fingernails than you do in your entire body, Zero! It is YOU that’s going to grow the fuck up, lest the grown ups drag you by the scruff of your hair to the woodshed so that they can take turns whipping your bare ass black and blue, bitchboi!

  3. Phyllis Maurer says:

    I love, love, love both Jon Steward and Josh Johnson. The are my absolute favorite comedians in the entire world. Currently hoping Josh Johnson is coming to Atlanta sometime soon. I want tickets sooooo bad!!