jon stewart will host his last show on august 6 after he revealed that he decided to quit because he was becoming increasing depressed watching cable news  departing host jon stewart has revealed he will present his final the daily show on august 6 he kept things lighthearted by talking about how sentimental it will be and joked that he would dress well for his swan song he said: 'i mentioned to you that i would keep you up to date on any new information we had about the transition of the programme and all those other things 'we do have some specific information my last daily show program will august 6 'i will be wearing a suit, i will more than likely be showered' he told viewers he hoped they would join him and announced a competition to get tickets to the final show it comes after he revealed that he decided to call time on his 17 year reign because he was becoming increasing depressed by american politics and watching cable news stewart will be replaced by trevor noah, 31, who instantly became the center of a debate over his questionable jokes on social media noah has been accused of antisemitism for comments made about jews in tweets dating back to 2009 but stewart urged viewers to give the south african comedian a chance, saying he was 'an incredibly thoughtful and considerate and funny and smart individual' who would earn viewers' respect speaking after making his shock decision, stewart said he was looking forward to not having to watch the 'relentless' 24 hour news networks anymore 'watching these channels all day is incredibly depressing,' stewart told the guardian 'i live in a constant state of depression i think of us as turd miners i put on my helmet, i go and mine turds, hopefully i don't get turd lung disease' stewart has now set an official exit date, with comedy central announcing last month that comedian and the daily show correspondent trevor noah, left, would be taking over  asked if he'd ever voluntarily watch fox news, stewart said, 'let's say that it's a nuclear winter, and i have been wandering, and there appears to be a flickering light through what appears to be a radioactive cloud and i think that light might be a food source that could help my family 'i might glance at it for a moment until i realize, that's fox news, and then i shut it off' stewart also confessed that his 'moments of dissatisfaction' with the show had started to become more frequent 'it's not like i thought [the daily show] wasn't working any more, or that i didn't know how to do it it was more, 'yup, it's working but i'm not getting the same satisfaction,'' he said 'these things are cyclical you have moments of dissatisfaction, and then you come out of it and it's ok but the cycles become longer and maybe more entrenched, and that's when you realize, 'ok, i'm on the back side of it now'' stewart said he didn't have many regrets from his time hosting the comedy central show, but one was not pushing donald rumsfeld harder when he had the chance in 2011  even the upcoming 2016 presidential election campaign couldn't reignite stewart's passion the way it once did 'i'd covered an election four times, and it didn't appear that there was going to be anything wildly different about this one,' said stewart 'honestly, it was a combination of the limitations of my brain and a format that is geared towards following an increasingly redundant process, which is our political process 'i was just thinking, 'are there other ways to skin this cat?' and, beyond that, it would be nice to be home when my little elves get home from school, occasionally' stewart also said he didn't have many regrets from his time hosting the comedy central show, but one was not pushing donald rumsfeld harder when he had the chance the former secretary of defense appeared on the daily show in 2011 for an interview, which the comedian says he messed up 'he just went into the general gobbledegook,' said stewart 'mnah mnah mnah, well, you have to remember, it was 9/11 mnah mnah' i should have pushed, but he's very adept at deflecting' rumsfeld, who was on the show to promote his memoir, known and unknown, dodged stewart's questions about faulty us intelligence leading up to the iraq war the exiting host told the guardian that one reason for  stepping down early in the presidential election cycle was to give noah a big story to tackle stewart said he felt 'that, for the show, you don't want to leave when the cupboard's bare so i think it's a better introduction when you have something providing you with assisted fuel, like a presidential campaign'
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jon stewart announced the date of his final show live on air, joking he would 'wear a suit and shower'. 'i live in a constant state of depression i think of us as turd miners,' he said . stewart also confessed that his 'moments of dissatisfaction' with the show had started to become more frequent . comedian said he didn't have many regrets, but one was not pushing donald rumsfeld harder when he had the chance in 2011 