This is the most press The Daily Show has gotten since the Jon Stewart days. Having new hosts every week possibly brings in new audiences. It’s basically SNL now.

  • Trumps_Cellmate@alien.topB
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    10 months ago

    Seems pretty stupid and non progressive to run someone off for doing recreational drugs and having sex with women

    Wow this famous guy on television bangs woman and does coke ???

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      10 months ago

      It was 20 years ago now but he was a public figure breaking the law so it was never gonna end well. If it was weed he’d probably have gotten away with it but coke is a class A. Theoretically possession is 5 years in prison I think.

      I do recall at the time the general public was pretty forgiving but the BBC is publicly funded, the optics of keeping someone on who is doing coke and shagging hookers aren’t great for that.