Jon Stewart Is Bringing His Comedy Chops to HBO
Maybe Jon Stewart wasn’t kidding when he described life without applause (aka off of TV) as a “barren wasteland” at the Emmys back in September. HBO just announced that Stewart has signed a four-year production deal with the cable network that will begin with “short-form digital content” pushed to HBO Now and HBO Go, along with a first-look development option for film and television projects.
Stewart, according to HBO’s announcement, will be working with a cloud graphics company called OTOY Inc. to “allow him to produce timely short-form digital content, which will be refreshed on HBO Now multiple times throughout the day”—essentially filling the part of HBO’s comedy landscape not taken by Jon Oliver’s in-depth segments on Last Week Tonight.