The Jon Stewart Show - 1995 final episode with guest David Letterman 

Thank-you MTV...by cancelling this show you unknowingly gave the us The Daily and Colbert shows, and made our world a better place.

"do not confuse cancellation with failure" you can tell this message really stuck with him because jon told this to larry wilmore when larry's show got canceled in 2016

Jon Stewart went on to bigger and better things

Letterman with a cigar is such an iconic image, for some reason.

I was 20y/o and watched this show religiously while high as a kite!

I love that through RU-vid you can see the evolution of Jon Stewart.

"See you in '98, I guess..." Close, Jon. January of '99. :)

I absolutely love that Jon returned the favor when Comedy Central cancelled Larry Wilmore's show. He didn't want anyone else to go through what he went through on MTV, and comfort folks like Dave did to him. Way to go, Jon! You've influenced the media landscape just like your hero David Letterman did.

The 90's...when you could still smoke a cigar as a late night talk show guest.

"Often, it's the things we love the most that causes us the most pain" - Dave Letterman So true

I remember this. I was in high school, but I loved the Jon Stewart show!

The great irony is that Jon Stewart announced retirement the same year that Colbert is taking over David Lettermans spot. Even John Oliver has had major success on HBO. I love Jon Stewart, i hope he doesn't beat himself up that much over launching so many careers including Steve Carell.

Even then, Jon had an adoriing audience!

Damn, I wish I could go back and relive the 90's again, just a little bit smarter and more aware than I was. Sigh.

Wow, that Letterman morning show clip was pure gold.

Dave called it........ George Carlin called it......... legends just know

"cancellation should not be confused with failure"... I still miss Firefly :'(

And tonight marks the final episode of "The Daily Show" -- Man I feel old.

I actually remember watching this............ I was God knows how old like I think I was 10 or something. My oldest brother had us all stay up late to watch this as a big event. He's a badass who always knew what was the real good shit. Not just what the media told us what to like. So knowing Jon Stewart's stand up he knew that his show was going to be badass!! He was right and he never missed an episode of this talk show. I was a freaking kid so of course I missed like almost all of his episodes. But I do remember the night I watched this whole episode

That was cool of Dave passing on to Jon a few words of encouragement.

Dave should be the last guest on Jon's last Daily show again, that would be a nice touch. Be sad to see them both go later this year. For anyone wanting to see the Volvo Dave talks about in this video clip, it's highlighted in Seinfeld's interview with Dave on Comedians in Cars getting Coffee. Pretty nice car, and still runs about 20 years later.

The car Dave mentions is the car Jerry Seinfeld gets to drive when Dave is guest on Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee, see it! Jon went on to bigger and better and he did not screw up the Academy Awards :-)

The old Letterman was great!

Wow..this interview was reversed 10 years later, when Jon was the academy awards host, and letterman was interviewing HIM..and now one of JOns protoge's"Stephen Colbert" is taking over for David Letterman, when he retires! This is such an interesting flashback.

My favorite singer/songwriter Harve Mann doing his Lounge Singer Character (1953) Wow!

UPDATE: Jon Stewart will appear on the last episode of Larry Wilmore's The Nightly Show. This is clearly Stewart doing for Willmore what Letterman did for him, because as David let him know, "cancellation should not be confused with failure''

The Daily Show premiered the next year, hosted by Craig Kilborn, who then took over the Late Late Show following Dave, opening a spot for Stewart. He did OK over there.

wow, '95 looks so "back then" kinda time in history.

"I know the same is in store for you..." Dave called it........

Greatly appreciate this upload. My VCR cut off the last five minutes because something on the network carrying the show at one in the morning overran earlier in the evening. Nice to finally see the end of that first Jon Stewart talk show after all these years. "So Jon ... do you think being cancelled is going to hurt our ratings?" :D

Jon looked absolutely crushed at the end there. Little did he know.

I like the fact that he asked the audience at home to watch the credits so that his crew get their due credit...

I have part of this on VHS but it has deteriorated over the years. Thanks so much for posting this!

The energy of youth.

The only credits I've voluntarily viewed. Then again I would do anything Jon Stewart asked

at the 20 minute mark they show a clip of Letterman's other last show from his morning show days in 1980. The rabbit hole goes deeeeeeeep

This just makes me miss Dave so much already.

loved every minute of this! Blues Traveler was the cherry on top

Thanks so much for sharing! I love seeing how Jon has grown as an entertainer and host.

This sounds so painful, and hes so sad clearly, BUT GREAT THINGS ARE COMING FOR YOU JOHN!

Thanks for posting this! The Letterman interview is classic!

Great find! Thanks for posting this.

It happened for a reason. Had he found success here we would of never had the Daily Show and The Colbert Report. Jon, you're a mench! Shalom!

Perfect finale song from Buffalo Tom, unbelievable it was cut. Buffalo Tom, "Porchlight" Hey when the need becomes too strong or long And drawn out for me to take Like a cigarette burn to the fleshy turbines of my heart That faded afternoon floats breezily into my memory Cool shafts of light appear and I'm left here Standing naked on my own Your voice is small on my voice mail system A million miles away But if I turned it off I would not hear the little things you say The world must chill And like a king I ring up old acquaintances It's like the man says I ain't here on business It's all work anyway On any other day They say the light has got no equal On any other day The date's irrelevant but she was drunk In the heat of the June night The faces in the windows - shouts rang out Into dawn's early light The flailing arms and scrambling eggs I fled On my two shambling legs I gotta go I said - they both looked dead On any other day On any other day They say the light has got no equal On any other day On any other day On any other day They say the light has got no equal On any other day The fire blazed away The kitchen porch was all that remained And I'm out here alone - beat up and pissed Until this very day That old hotel rang back in fuzzy time And I was ravaged to the bone Your voice got smaller 'til I realized It was gone On any other day They'd say the light has got no equal On any other day On any other day I swear the light has got no equal On any other day I realize I realize It was gone

20:20 he makes a very prophetic statement."I lived through it" Jon did too.. Kudos david, you are a class act dear sir. !

Ahh...so many 90's memories. And seeing Higgins at the end, was a trip

Of course, the interesting post-script to this video is that, 19 years later, Jon Stewart could have taken over Dave's show had he wished.

and Jon ends up farming Lettermans future replacement

Used to watch this all the time. The Jon Stewart Show had such awesome and incredible musical guests. Sad it ended.

I don't care about the poor quality. This is Jon freaking Stewart. He could be broadcasting from the middle of a screaming badger farm and be videotaped on 8mm silent film and it would still have been a great show. Throw Letterman in there and you have genius everywhere you look.

I had just discovered this show during its final week and told myself, "I am going to be a lifelong fan of this program!" only to find out that it was being canceled.

13:00 - Jon mentioned this episode in the video "The Best Advice Jon Stewart Ever Received Was From David Letterman - After the Cut | The Daily Show" "Cancellation and I'm going to tell you something you know cancellation should not be confused with failure" What a great advice! Also, it is strange seeing Dave with a cigar

Ok that post-credit scene was gold

After his MTV show it was picked up for national syndication. Ran here in LA from 11-11:30 but never caught on enough to keep it alive. The rest is history. Since then with The Daily Show it has given star status to then-regulars Steve Carrell, Stephen Cobert, Ed Helms, Demetri Marin, and many others.

David is 100% class

Letterman, what a cool dude.

That was wild from start to finish.

I remember this exact period in time ... I thought Jon was good based on his stand-up ... and then I finally got around to watching his show and I watched one episode after another. By the tenth show in, I was hooked! Then, by the 11th show (this one) he was cancelled. Wish I'd seen them all!

Thanks Jon

funny, they both had final show in the exact next twenty years.

I remember this guy

Smoking on TV... Wow times have changed.

Oh the cigar boom was happening! Love this!

wow... most of these jokes still work today

The Volvo station wagon Letterman was talking about was featured in his episode of Seinfeld's Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee: comediansincarsgettingcoffee.com/david-letterman-i-like-kettlecorn Still running all these years later.

Gold …hindsight is 20/20 …👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻❤️

David Michael Letterman (12 de abril de 1947) es un presentador, comediante, escritor y productor de televisión estadounidense. 76 AÑOS.

Wow, I forgot what Dave was like when he was younger.

Tonight Show's Steve Higgins tends bar in the "flash forward" sketch at the very end. Small world, that showbiz...

I think Jon Stewart knew back then he’d land on his feet and everything would be okay 👍

7:16 you can tell that pissed jon off lol

2:30 + love all the 90's name throw outs! Memories ...

Funny how we didn't realize at the time how badly Standard Definition analog TV sucks.

WOW...

When Dave had fire and spirit, he gotten so mellow and was ready to retire.

Both of these dudes now have crazy Unabomber beards. Wild.

Steve Higgins of SNL and The Tonight Show was the head writer of this show. He plays the bartender at the very end, after the credits.

Wow I think Rove McManus in Australia somehow got copies of this to emulate it

I think the Paul Newman car reference is the same one that he also talked about on Jerry Seinfeld's 'Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee."

Letterman is actually more entertaining in the guest's chair.

This man has more talent in his pinky than Jimmy Kimmel… never should have been canceled

I had no idea who he was and that he had his own late night show in 1995. Only Letterman was on late night on Australian television. The others were obscure unknowns.

I wonder if David Letterman will be the last guest on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart

That talk show jon sketch was hilarious. The original lego movie.

Before Jon took over The Daily show it SUCKED so it's a good thing this thing was cancelled

Wow Bill Murray has been Letterman's bud for years then!

Dave, we miss you.

Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz (Nueva York, 28 de noviembre de 1962), conocido por su nombre artístico Jon Stewart, es un cómico, actor, escritor y productor estadounidense de origen judío, conocido por su trabajo en el programa The Daily Show emitido por Comedy Central. 61 AÑOS.

Was this a passing of the torch before anyone knew it?

As I gathered, BusBoy is Jon Stewart production house. I think wiki has more info.

is it me or does he look better now

Dave retold the Paul Newman car story on another show sometime after this was aired. He admitted that Newman was not happy that Dave used his name publicly in describing the car project. So when he retold the story, Dave left out Newman's name and simply referred to him as a celebrity friend. Apparently the friendship was maintained and I ruined by this, but it was amusing to have been in on the joke having seen this episode when it first aired.

Great vid! Thanks. But... Leno would have known it was a "huffer" not puffer.The term came from 1960's top fuel dragsters.

Letterman is smoking a cigar :D

Geee, you really can see the genesis of the guy who would take over in 1999 from Kilborn.

I don't miss the 90s at all lol

The irony that Jon's next show would help create Letterman's replacement, Colbert...

Is the 1hr cut of this episode out there?

Dave seems very Jeff Goldblum-esque in this video

Is that Steve Higgins, now announcer on Jimmy Fallons show, that's playing the bartender in the end bit?