Jon Stewart on The Daily Show’s Future: ‘I Just Don’t Know ... We’ll Deal with It When We Do’

STEWART: “What have we got? What do listeners want to know this week?”
UNKNOWN: “First up, Jon, do you think that Skydance would get rid of ‘The Daily Show’ after the merger goes through?”
STEWART: “Skydance, the company that’s coming in? Boy, that’s — that’s a good question. I — you know, unfortunately, we haven’t heard anything from them. They haven’t called me and said, like, ‘Don’t get too comfortable in that office, Stewart.’ But I — let me tell you something. I’ve been kicked out a sh*ttier establishments than that. We’ll land on our feet. No, I honestly don’t know. I mean, I think — I’d like to believe that, like, without ‘The Daily Show,’ I don’t know, Comedy Central’s kind of like muzak at this point without — I think we’re the only sort of, like, life that exists on a current basis, other than like ‘South Park’ — “
UNKNOWN 2: “Reruns of ‘The Office.’”
STEWART: “But it’s the only thing on there. I’d like to think we — we bring enough value to the property. Like, if they’re looking at it as purely a real estate transaction, I think we bring a lot of value, but that may not be their consideration. I don’t know, they may sell the whole f**king place for parts. I just don’t know. And we’ll deal with it when we do, but I’m so happy and proud of everybody that works over there. Like, they wanna do that? Knock themselves out. You know, as Jay Leno would say about Doritos, go ahead, crunch all you want, we’ll make more. So we will figure that out when the time comes and where we have to do it. But like I say, that is without — I have no knowledge. You know, we’ve all got a surmisal about, like, who actually is owning it and what his ideology is, but ideology may not play a part. I don’t — I just don’t know.”