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“You don’t even know how to get Apple TV, do you?” Stewart jokes at the end of his Problem premiere.

It’s little surprise that Stewart would come back as well, but it is a bit of a jolt to see him do so on Apple TV+. (Remember Foo Fighters’ performance of “Everlong” during Letterman’s final episode? I’m getting misty just thinking about it!) But in a twist befitting this era in which nothing is ever really over, Letterman returned to “late night” just a couple years later with My Next Guest Needs No Introductionon Netflix in 2018. It was a big moment, and Letterman and Stewart’s exits, especially, were major productions. Also debuting and on the horizon: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore, and Full Frontal with Samantha Bee. Craig Ferguson had stepped down as Late Late Show host in December, and James Corden and Stephen Colbert had already been named his and Letterman’s successors. That year marked the official change of the late-night guard, as Jimmy Fallon took over The Tonight Show from Jay Leno in 2014 with his former SNL colleague Seth Meyers to follow as his Late Night replacement. Stewart’s final episode on Comedy Central aired just months after David Letterman left his CBS creation, Late Show. Perhaps that’s why it appears, from his new show’s first two episodes, as though Stewart is still figuring out how he and his new show want to contribute to the new conversation. Only six years have passed since Stewart stepped down from his genre-shifting Daily Show run, but it feels much longer. In a visual brainstorm of the show’s title, we observe increasingly cheeky suggestions like “The Weekly…” “Monthly…” and “Annual…” Words like “program” and “product” intertwine, alongside ideas like The Cash Grab with Jon Stewart. The problem with Jon Stewart’s new show, The Problem with Jon Stewart, is not that it’s a cash grab-but its opening credits preempt that notion anyway with a joke.

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