LIZZ WINSTEAD Instead of Jon playing a character__he news anchor, one of the derelicts in a derelict world of media__on made a creative decision to take the show in the direction of the correspondents presenting the idiocy, and then Jon is the person who calls out the idiocy with the eloquence that the viewer wishes they had. And he did it in a way that__ not condescending, it__ not smug. It__ funny, it__ emotional, it__ calling out bullshit. So Jon became the voice of the audience.
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If comedy is tragedy plus time, I need more fucking time. But I would really settle for less fucking tragedy._ ~ Jon Stewart
As our larynxes descended, we were able to make sounds with our mouths in new and far more expressive ways. Verbal language soon overtook physical gesturing as the primary means of communication for all human beings except Italians. (Earth (The Book), p. 36)