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"Jon Stewart has revealed that he once seriously considered quitting The Daily Show. The comic said at a Montclair Film Festival fundraiser over the weekend that he was initially unimpressed with The Daily Show staff when he replaced Craig Kilborn as host in 1999.  &amp;quot;What I did not realize is, a lot of the people who worked there were assholes,&amp;quot; Stewart quipped, reports Third Beat. He went on to say of his troubled first year on The Daily Show: &amp;quot;I had, before taking [the job], some conversations with the powers that be there about the direction I thought we could move the show... I wanted it to be satirical in the classic sense of the word, not the Spy magazine sense of the word where you just add adjectives like &amp;#039;pepperpot&amp;#039;. &amp;quot;I walk in the door, into a room with the writers and producers, and the first thing they say is, &amp;#039;This isn&amp;#039;t some MTV bulls**t&amp;#039;... And then I was told not to change the jokes or improvise. [I told my agent], &amp;#039;Get me the f**k out of this&amp;#039;. These people are insane.&amp;quot; Stewart went on to reveal that it took him nearly three years to feel comfortable at The Daily Show, in which time the show experienced a substantial staff turnover.  He has remained on the Comedy Central series for the last 13 years and has interviewed luminaries such as US President Barack Obama and ex-British Prime Minister Tony Blair. The Daily Show airs Monday to Thursday on Comedy Central at 11pm ET. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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