The Daily Show is a Peabody and Emmy Award-winning American satirical television program produced by and airing on Comedy Central. The half-hour long show premiered on Monday, July 22, 1996, and was hosted by Craig Kilborn, who acted as its anchorman. Kilborn left the show in December 1998; Jon Stewart has hosted since January 1999. Providing news-related comedy in the tradition of several popular comedic forerunners (Saturday Night Live's "Weekend Update" segment, HBO's Not Necessarily The News, Channel 4's The 11 O'Clock Show, the BBC's The Day Today and That Was The Week That Was, CBC's This Hour Has 22 Minutes and TQS's 100 Limite), The Daily Show reports with a satirical edge about the foibles and hypocrisies of the real world. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/The+Daily+Show">Read more on Last.fm</a>. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.