Was far better before it started taking itself seriously.

I was a naive kid who grew up under Bush and boy did the curtains get pulled when Obama was elected and TDS stopped making fun of the president

When it's good, it's great. Jon Stewart gave a comedic voice to a generation of progressives. Sometimes it went over the top in pushing an agenda, but it really was just damn funny too.

Really confused on how to rate this. Most people don't even remember Kilborn. Stewart is gone, and the Stewart/Colbert dominated era of the show was just a phase. They chose to move on with another host, and of course it wasn't the same. Noah was a bizarre choice. He lacks any nuance, and his delivery leans more toward smug than Stewart's distress with issues. I find his constant grin and looks for approval to be disingenuine and distracting. It was a short lived show they've refused to let go.

A very inconsistent show, which is to be expected given its nature as a satire with multiple hosts, writers, and performers. It is funny but far less so when its clear bias is allowed to shine and the jokes become less funny and more pandering.

Hard for me to rate, as my politics changed quite a bit during Jon Stewart's run on the show. At my raging leftiest back in college, I was as rabid a fan as anyone out there and faithfully consumed every episode. More recently, I'm still a Democrat, but a far more cynical and suspicious one who dislikes a lot of what the left gets up to these days, and I came to not enjoy this show much any more. I think I last watched an entire episode in... 2012? Still, I can't say I disliked it always.

keep in mind that Stewart, according to Polifact, has a mixed record of factual accuracy, so he's not really a respectable source of information for political news. Early on in the show's life I think there was some pretty good comedy as there were actual attempts to satirize the news and other events. Eventually, Stewart's humor just ended up consisting of him making funny faces of things put out of context and pushing his liberal agenda. At least he admits when he's wrong, though.

An annoying and formulaic show that consists of emotional responses to clips that are either taken out of context or edited in such a way to make a point that may or may not be invalid. Cut to: Jon Stewart looking horrified. It's entertainment for college students or adults that never grew up. It's hard not to get annoyed with a show that does everything in its power to make you think its the most clever thing in the world.

Jon needed to break the interview formula. Having some interviews would have been fine, but then asking questions obviously written by a publicist to some stupid tv/movie star kinda killed the momentum of the show. Some of his interviews were great but if he cut it down to 1 or 2 a week instead of every day, the show would have been better.

Tedious Liberal bullshit.

Whether you love or hate his humor or politics, this show was a game changer. When it started it was a bore with a former Sportscenter anchor out of his element. Stewart slowly warped the show into what would become the bastion for liberal politics. Fox News naysayers will cry bias, but even Democrats were not safe from the shocking use of common sense.

I can honestly say that I don't always see eye to eye with some of the hyper-liberal stances TDS has been known for, but christ has this show made me laugh over the years. Jon's evolution from scrawny jokester swimming in his suit to one of the most influential political pundits in modern American history has been an honor to watch. TDS has given rise to some of the greatest comedians we laugh at today. Let the war on bullshit never die Mr. Noah. Please continue to brainwash me with rationality.

[seen most of Stewart era, a smattering of Noah era]

It used to be too cutesy, pandering and fallacious like a Michael Moore “documentary”. Arrogant & elitist. However, I do quite adore Jon Stewart for his post-TDS activism, and just who he seems to be as a person. Since Stewart returned in the wake of that absolute tool Trevor Noah, TDS is incredible on Mondays & a much needed stand-in for the vacuum left by a lack of Colbert Report. But the rest of the week, other hosts make it the usual polemic, trite clickbaity drivel you find on both sides.

Show is not same or much good since Jon Stewart departed.

Some of Stewart's monologues and gags were pretty great. The show was often better when not trying to be funny. Trevor Noah era is completely shite with no reason for existing in the oversaturated field.

Let's ignore the modern Daily Show.

Score based largely on the golden (showering) years of the Bush administration. Where I've diverted my attention to other fares of recent I can't bring myself to downplay the weekend wasting significance of spelunking TV and PC alike for more and more correspondent dream team niblets from the inauguration of Colbert to the escalation of Oliver and Bee.

100 points go to Trevor Noah, minus 80 for his constant concept creep, false analogies, lack of wit, and the hijab-is-liberation apologists on his show.

The original liberal news satire show.

The constant lampooning of news and politics was neverending in our ridiculous world, and Jon Stewart and his writers never missed an opportunity.

Witty at times but it slowly declined in quality as things got stale. The episodes John Oliver hosted later on were great, a stark contrast to what the show had become.

Got repetitive if you watched a few episodes in a short space of time but specific ones could be amazing. Stewart lost steam after Obama got into power, so maybe most of the hilarity came from cutting through the sanitized newsroom filter and simply presenting the idiocy of the Bush era with "this actually fucking happened". In a meta twist Trump's severe case of NPD and ensuing twitter ranting have rendered TDS (and other political humor shows to be fair) almost obsolete.

Every correspondent segment ever--and everything resembling its fakeness--is unbearable.

Always entertaining but rarely reaches the level it is constantly spoken of as living on. Though that's admittedly nearly impossible given how many episodes there are.