Unpo… wait, is this really even unpopular? It’s an opinion, at least:

Craig Kilborn was a better Daily Show host than Jon Stewart.

Under Kilborn, TDS was comedy mocking news shows.

Under Stewart, TDS is “comedy” “mocking” “news”.

I have no idea why Kilborn was the one who replaced Tom Snyder on The Late Late Show. Stewart was even the standard substitute host! And he was good at it! Stewart’s a solid interviewer, good at feeding someone questions to help them get out whatever they have worth saying.

But Kilborn’s good at doing interviews and making them about himself. Which was the point! I loved Five Questions. I loved when Your Moment of Zen was absurdist.

When Stewart came on, they updated the theme song to a cover by They Might Be Giants, that’s a perfect synecdoche for the transition.

He was pretty good in The Faculty though. That’s an underrated movie.