Vanity Fair:
When Jon Stewart arrived at The Daily Show in 1999, he inherited a modest cable success—and a staff that wanted him to leave it alone. In an adaptation from The Daily Show (The Book), Chris Smith gets Stewart, Stephen Colbert, Steve Carell, and others to talk about the battles of that first year, and how the show found its radical voice.
I still watch it for its moments of brilliance but the new Daily Show isn’t nearly as good now in my opinion. It serves to highlight the lightning in a bottle Stewart captured.