Jon Stewart's 'The Daily Show' finale beats Conan, Colbert departures
"The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" aired its final episode on Thursday. Comedy Central, owned by Viacom Inc. , reported that the departure episode was the second-most viewed in the show's 19-year run, behind the Oct. 29, 2008, episode, when President Barack Obama appeared during the 2008 presidential election. Comedy Central said 3.5 million viewers tuned in to see Stewart's final show, while there have been an additional 1 million streams of the show on the network's app, thedailyshow.com and Hulu. The episode more viewers than the departures of Conan O'Brien from "Late Night" and Stephen Colbert from "The Colbert Report." According to Nielsen, the finale was the most social episode of the show ever, with 117,000 tweeting about the show on Friday.
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