as we've said, it is the end of ewart.or jon st his jokes and rants have been a huge success for comedy central and had a major effect on u.s. politics. matt: polls show that his show is the primary source of news for gen xers and millenials. for more, i am joined by the director for the u.s. center of politics. ewart has done is turned his comedy program into the main source of news for the kids, right? and the kids are now in their 30's. some studies what have said. i think that is overly critical of gen xers. i have talked to 20,000 young people over several decades, certainly over the whole time jon stewart has been on. i wouldn't say it is their main source of news. it is the source of fake news that they enjoy the most. sometimes, they like background knowledge. it is true.sume i have had students come up to wart saidy jon ste this. is it accurate? there is a grain of truth, but of course, it's entertainment. pimm: he has said that laziness on the part of the mainstream press has helped them lose an audience. do you

ewart airrt -- to 2600 shows reaching an audience that once news of the comedic sense., d.c. says it will preserve his daily show set. , withustin fox with us his great work and his book on the rational market and at the harvard business review. a journalist or comedian or did he invent something different? justin: he started out as a comedian and started taking his job more seriously. everybodyt like this, -- his importance is probably being blown out of proportion, but he did come at a time when the network news and cable news were losing a bit of their authority, he was a large segment of the american population, they became the most authoritative news figure. brendan: i thought it was disingenuous of him to continue to insist he was just a comedian when he was obviously so much more than that. what is amazing is how many that havedeveloped become a part of we assume is on television, jump cuts, pulling clips, things like, i refer to someone as our chief european this function court nader -- correspondent, this is that -- that is lifted from "the daily show." tom: a

>>yeeporter: the show that will perhaps be ewart's most lasting had no jokes. it was the first after the attacks of september 11th, 2001. >> we're going to get back to this. and it's going to be fun and funny and it's going to be the same as it was. as stewart goes off the air, his racy is promise neptly on display with former "daily show" correspondents everywhere you look. >> pull back the tears, john. >> now it's a south african newcomer trevor noah with the daunting task of filling jon stewart's shoes. >> jon stewart directed a movie last year. he could be directing a new movie. he and his wife bought a farm for an animal sanctuary. the rule appears to be go as long as you need to, on. there's nothing after him. you can bet you'll see some of the old correspondents. >> you get he sense he can take a blank piece of paper and write anything he wants to do and he's going to get the opportunity. >> he's had many suitors. he said he wants to take a minute to figure it out. >>> the sergeant pepper has been called the best album of all time. why is a certain rock