Jon Stewart won’t be the next Dan Rather
April 21, 2005 
Don’t worry, Daily Show fans, host Jon Stewart won’t be switching from fake news to real news anytime soon.
If there were ever serious consideration of giving the CBS Evening News anchor chair, or one of the chairs, to comic Jon Stewart, the host of Comedy Central’s Daily Show, Stewart put the kibosh on it on Thursday’s Access Hollywood.
“That is not happening,” Stewart says. “The news can use a lot of things, but I don’t think I’m one of them, so I’ll stick with what I’m doing. So that is a definite no.”
But Stewart did leave the door open a crack, if only a wisecrack. “If they add comedy, then it’s a whole other thing,” he said. “Come to think of it, they might have already added comedy.”
Don’t worry if you didn’t hear Stewart was being considered for Dan Rather’s seat. It seems that CBS President Les Moonves started the rumor, since he still has no idea who they want to lead CBS News in the future. (Not that ABC is having it any easier.)
But, yes, it would have been really funny to see Jon Stewart in the Evening News anchor chair.
