Arguably the real star behind the popularity of Comedy Central on “The Daily Show”, John Stewart still lingers in the mind of his fans.
“Jon was the voice of the viewer,” the series co-creator Lizz Winstead told NPR. “He was able to craft the show in his voice, craft the material.” She added that Stewart made viewers “be more invested in it because they saw somebody who was speaking for them as they also observed the absurdity of the day.”
Stewart’s tenure on the show would come to an end in 2015, with Stewart telling his successor Trevor Noah that he was “tired of being angry” (via the Independent).
After six years, he returned to the desk with a new show “The Problem With John Stewart.”
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An interesting thing about his fans is that they have always kept gazing how exactly “The Daily Show” legend is.
For the major Jon Stewart fans out there, there have been points in the comedian’s career where he hasn’t been limited to sitting behind a desk. Prior to his turn on “The Daily Show,” Stewart was actually an established actor.
A year before replacing the show’s first host Craig Kilborn, Stewart starred in the Robert Rodriguez sci-fi horror “The Faculty” as well as the romantic comedy “Playing by Heart” opposite Gillian Anderson, who was best known for her role as Scully on “The X-Files” at the time.
What Anderson was also known for was her height, especially beside “X-Files” co-star David Duchovny. The actress stands at 5′ 2,” according to the Express, and like Duchovny, Stewart towered over Anderson.
While maybe not as tall as Duchovny, who stands at 6 feet (via Celeb Heights), Stewart is around 5 ‘6″ or 5’ 7,” according to the Celeb Heights website.
But Stewart wasn’t always this tall. In fact, as a kid, he was often referred to as the “runt” of his friend group.
“I was very small in high school,” Stewart told the Los Angeles Times “So my role in every social interaction was always the wisecracking runt who had big friends.”