Jon Stewart Breaks Down Why His Apple Show Was Never Going to Work

Jon Stewart has finally broken his silence about what went wrong his Apple TV+ show before its cancellation—and revealed the moment he realized the “aims” of his show and the streamer “do not align in any way.”

The Problem With Jon Stewart, which aired for two seasons from 2021 to 2023 on the platform, was shelved last year as rumors swirled that Apple had tried to “censor” him. But Stewart said that’s not exactly what happened.

“They didn’t censor me,” Stewart said this week on the podcast The Town. “When you work for a corporate entity—that’s part of the deal, even at Comedy Central [where The Daily Show lives]: The deal is I get to do what I want, until they think it’s gonna hurt their beer sales or whatever it is that they wanna sell,” he continued.

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