Reddit reviews The Daily Show (The Book): An Oral History as Told by Jon Stewart, the Correspondents, Staff and Guests

According to The Daily Show book published last year, primarily because Viacom completely beefed their previous contract situation prior to them leaving, which kinda exacerbated the situation when the end was near and Stewart was just done with doing the show and needed to stop. Colbert was in a similar situation, but got offered the Late Show, and since their contracts were linked, it kinda all came down at once.

Cool book if you've been a long fan of the Daily Show to read, but really one just for the fans. All told first person from the staff.

I am a huge fan of the format. a few of my favorites:

Live From New York: The Complete, Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live as Told by Its Stars, Writers, and Guests

The Daily Show (The Book): An Oral History as Told by Jon Stewart, the Correspondents, Staff and Guests

Those Guys Have All the Fun: Inside the World of ESPN

The Union of The State

Slimed!: An Oral History of Nickelodeon’s Golden Age

I Want My MTV: The Uncensored Story of the Music Video Revolution

Here's the book if any one is interested: https://www.amazon.com/Daily-Show-Book-History-Correspondents/dp/1455565385

I am going to disagree because I think you're viewing TDS as a fixed point when it's in truth evolving with the political climate and hosts.

• The Daily Show with Kilborn was much more in the mold of what Weekend Update was. It very much used the format of news to find whacky stories or people. It punched down. When Jon came on board he began heavily modifying the whole structure of the show, top to bottom. For more detail, on this, I would highly recommend The Daily Show ( The Book ) By Chris Smith.
  
  
• Once the structure of the Show was in place it was largely a response to the alienation liberals felt during the years of Bush and success of Fox News. This formula couldn't continue after the resurgence of the Democratic party and the election of Barack Obama. Stewart could no longer attack Fox because it was punching down rather than up, as it used to be. I highly recommend this Vox video on this shift in the tone of The Daily Show in these years. Now to address the host, Trevor Noah. I agree, initially, Trevor did flounder but because he was trying to be Jon. Jon worked in Juvenalian satire. Juvenal satire follows the pattern of abrasively ridiculing societal structures. Trevor Noah is a satirist in the Horatian style. Horatian satire is solving social problems through light-hearted, gentle, humor.
  
  
• Now, look at the legacy of the Daily Show. John Oliver and Samantha Bee all follow a more Juvenal (Stewart) model. Stephen Colbert is interesting because he alone of the former TDS staff follows a more Horatian style. Seth Meyers is very Juvenalian in his delivery in A Closer Look. I agree Seth would be a great fit for TDS but only at the time of Jon Stewart, in the same way, another Juvenalian, John Oliver, was a successful stand in. It will be interesting to see how Noah uses TDS and Horatian satire now that he is in a similar situation that Stewart was early on in the show.

The Daily Show book makes it pretty clear that these types of stuff isn't the kind of stuff the daily show would do or look into or that Jon would even be aware of.

In fact in the earliest days of taking over the show, Jon veered them away from celebrity stuff very forcefully to do politics mainly, and he personally wasn't really in the loop with anything except stuff for the show as they discuss that his life really changed with the show from his comic days, both personal and professionally. Its incredibly reasonable to say he would have no idea of any of this stuff

He just had a book come out, that'd be a good place to start!
https://www.amazon.com/Daily-Show-Book-History-Correspondents/dp/1455565385
I haven't read that one yet, but I own this one and it's a fucking gem: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0446199435/ref=pd_sim_14_5?ie=UTF8&pd_rd_i=0446199435&pd_rd_r=HM6EMA8B18N7CF4QD5WM&pd_rd_w=0HHEw&pd_rd_wg=zPzwr&psc=1&refRID=HM6EMA8B18N7CF4QD5WM

Also, here is a handy list compiled by a fan of the Daily Show of all books that had been featured there, but it's not super well organized so I would start from the back of the list as page 1 are the most recent ones featured and that'd be Trevor Noah.
http://www.dailyshowbooklist.com/browse-books-by-cover.html

Here you go.

Edit: not sure why this is being downvoted.

Mate! I'm a huge jon stewart fan! Glad that you appreciate satire as I do. Here's my thought about satire in indo: I'm not going to jump into conclusion that it's not possible to do satire in Indonesia. In fact there are so many satirists in indo, unfortunately just like any other art form, it's barely unnoticed.

Here's an example, Ryo Kusumo's letter is one of the best satirical piece written in recent years. It's clever. Well written. Deadpan, amusing but in a serious manner. The response to this piece is an entertainment on its own. A range of negative criticism and hilarity. Scrolling through the comment section is a time worth spending. Most people get the intention but those who don't, and they try to elaborate their understanding about the letter. Priceless.

Mate, I'm sure indonesians are open to satire. The challenge is that there are this overwhelming amount of bullshit artists whom make outrageous statements and bullshit promises, ran for public office, got elected, use their power and influence to make bullshit policies. They are so far up their own ass, it makes them so sensitive to any kind of criticism. To their credit they are extremely good for being a bullshit artist. Oh, and don't let me start with how media play its role with their brouhaha. To be fair thou, it is hard being journos in this day and age.

That's why satire is really important in today's political climate, especially if the intention and purpose is to raise an awareness for not only young people, but all the public in general to be more engage and have reasonable conversations about politics. For sure, satire is not a solution to the big problem, but it is like taking cocaine to cure gonorrhoea. I know it's not only stupid, alas, I will get into a lot trouble because of it, and most importantly: it's not going to cure my gonorrhoea! but hey! at least I can have a laugh at my stupidity, not taking myself too seriously, and aware of my ignorant so I could start to understand and question what the main problem is.


PS: if you love the daily show with jon stewart/trevor noah, john oliver, stephen colbert, samantha bee, bassam youssef, I couldn't recommend you enough to read this book. It's such a great insight into what goes behind the scene and its writing process, which is, seriously, the heart of the show. The Daily Show is well-known for its talented writers.They won a lot of Emmy for best writing during Stewart era. I could talk for hours about that show. Also, there is this Malcolm Gladwell piece about satire. I hope you enjoy it.

TLDR: Yes, it is possible to make a political satire in Indo. And if there is any satirist from indo, instead of criticising their work and telling them that it's impossible and scare them with the status-quo, why not starting to appreciate and trying to understand their intentions. Because, you know, at least they try to do something and speak up about their concerns.