Suit pants worn by Jon Stewart on his last appearance as host of The Daily Show
date: label: date made
content: before 2015
name: label: maker
content: Armani
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Daily Show host Jon Stewart wore these blue Armani suit pants on the last episode of the show he hosted, August 26, 2015.
label: Description (Brief)
content: From 1999 to 2015, Jon Stewart anchored The Daily Show, Comedy Central’s nightly satirical television newscast. The show sometimes functioned as a parody of television news, especially the 24-hour cable news networks whose programming grew increasingly sensational and politically polarizing in the early 2000s. Stewart’s well-informed but exasperated commentary on the absurdities of the American political system and media landscape made the show a hit, especially among young viewers. According to a poll by Pew research, by 2014, 12% of Americans got their news from The Daily Show, roughly the same reach as the national newspaper USA Today. Some commentators noted that “infotainment” programs like The Daily Show contributed to the same worrisome fusion of entertainment and news and decline of trust in journalism as cable news was creating. Several studies, however, showed that viewers of the program were just as accurately informed about current events as regular viewers of traditional broadcast news.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: Associated Place
content: Italy
topic: label: Subject
content: Television
label: Subject
content: News
label: Subject
content: Politics
label: Subject
content: Comedy
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content: Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
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content: Popular Entertainment
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2016.0101.06
label: accession number
content: 2016.0101
label: catalog number
content: 2016.0101.06
objectType: label: Object Name
content: pants, man's suit
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silk (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 37 in x 28 in; 93.98 cm x 71.12 cm