. >> brown: samantha bee served as the daily show's longest-serving regular correspondent before leavingrlier this year. >> jon gave me the freedom to explore areas of concern that i felt passionately about. and that was very, very invigorating. jon was our benevolent overlord. working on the daily show changed my life profoundly. typically if he's pushing us in a direction, he's pushing us in the direction of elevating a joke which is great and >> brown: current daily show correspondent and stand up comic al madrigal shared this anecdote with us. >> at one point, during a daily show fieldpiece, i started spinning, like wonder woman almost, in between cities. and for no reason, whatsoever. and i remember him just laughing out loud in the screening, and going, that doesn't make any sense, i love it, go for it. >> brown: not everything was rosy, it seems: former daily show correspondent wyatt cenac recently claimed that stewart blew up at him for questioning the racial overtones of a skit. cenac was the only black writer on the program at the time. another recent report, by "politico," tha