The Daily Show is back from its winter hiatus tonight and it’s going into the show with some wind in its sails.
In 2025, the Comedy Central show scored its highest-rated year since 2020 among people aged between 18 and 49 and landed its biggest share since 2015.
The show, which is hosted by Jon Stewart, Ronny Chieng, Josh Johnson, Michael Kosta, Jordan Klepper and Desi Lydic, saw 16% growth in ratings in the 18-49 demo between 2024 and 2025. Per Nielsen, it went from an average of 0.366% to 0.423%.
In terms of share, this grew by 25% in the same period from a 2.2 to a 2.76.
The company said that on Monday nights, which are hosted by Stewart, who recently signed another one-year to remain through 2026, it was the number one late-night cable show among the 18-34 and 18-49 demos. There aren’t a great deal of others apart from Bravo’s Watch What Happens Live.
These numbers shouldn’t come as a huge surprise given that in June, the network touted the fact that in the second quarter of 2025, it landed its best quarterly share since the third quarter of 2015.
The Daily Show also had its best year ever when it comes to social views. It reached 6.7B views, per the company, which it said was up 72%, while engagements were up 45% to 418.8M and total minutes consumed rose 44% to 11.2B.
Stewart returns to host the show tonight with Senator Mark Kelly joining for an interview. Kelly could see a reduction in his retirement rank and military pension after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth started administrative actions against him following comments to remind those serving that they should refuse illegal orders.
Chieng will host the rest of the week with guests including No Other Choice director Park Chan-wook, Freakonomics’ Stephen J. Dubner and Lucy Liu, who is promoting Rosemead.
