Comparing Stephen Colbert’s Career Track to Jon Stewart’s

Well, Stephen Colbert will apparently be succeeding David Letterman as host of The Late Show. Personally, I’m not that concerned. For one thing, I’m sure Colbert will do a fine job. For another, I haven’t watched Letterman for years anyway (though I used to watch quite a bit). The thing that struck me was finding myself contrasting the career tracks of Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart.

I mean, Colbert was a smaller player on Stewart’s The Daily Show for a while there before getting his own show. His show was a humorous political show similar to The Daily Show. Now he’s going to be moving up to a bigger time general variety show.

Meanwhile, Jon Stewart was a smaller player way back in the early nineties in his own general variety show on MTV, The Jon Stewart Show. Then he moved up when he went to head the humorous political show that is The Daily Show.

Isn’t that at least mildly amusing? They both have moved up to bigger things…but in completely opposite paths. Okay, maybe it isn’t so interesting. I just thought it was an amusing observation, a connection between the two stars.