By Thursday morning, it’s adrenaline (and perhaps lots of caffeine) that’s fueling “ The Daily Show ” team in Chicago. And yet, tonight is perhaps their biggest episode of their entire week in town for the Democratic National Convention : A live episode, with host Jon Stewart, set to air at 11:30 p.m.
ET. Hopefully that means the show will go live around that time just after Kamala Harris finishes her acceptance speech for the Democratic presidential nomination at the United Center. But as their colleagues at CBS’ “ The Late Show With Stephen Colbert ” experienced this week, the DNC makes no promises of sticking to a set timetable.
“The Late Show” went with live episodes throughout the week, which means it often wasn’t going off the air — and clearing out Chicago’s Auditorium Theatre — until close to 1 a.m. local time.
“I can’t even imagine doing all the shows live!” says “The Daily Show” executive producer Jen Flanz, as she preps for Thursday’s show. “I love our live shows because they really infuse that energy of what just happened. But we’re not a news show, and in order to comment on the news, you need a little bit of time to digest it and write a more focused take of what the previous night was.
That’s what ‘The Daily Show’ does. “Being on the road can take something out of you, and then doing a live show, even at home, is exhausting in a different way,” she adds. “So, for others, I give Colbert and that show a lot of.