I dived into the index of The Daily Show videos to see if I could find anything. Since of the departed correspondents, only Carell and Colbert have been most closely identified with the show (at least in my mind). It appears that with Colbert moving to his own show that there wasn't a goodbye as such, and Carell did just one in-studio piece in 2005 prior to formally leaving. He didn't appear to be that present on the show in 2004, but that could just be a fault of how the program indexes its videos.
It appears that Oliver's is a rare instance of playing the departure straight and at length. This segment when Rob Corddry left arguably takes the same idea in a very different direction. http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-august-24-2006/rob-corddry-a-farewell---the-day-the-news-weeped Oliver had the third-longest tenure (by years) of any current correspondent at 7+, which places him fourth all-time (behind Bee, Colbert, and Jones). As for total on-air appearances, I don't know how it shakes out, but I would guess his guest-hosting run places him higher than fourth. David ________________________________ From: Joe Hass <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [TV orNotTV] Stewart Says Goodbye to Oliver Minor point of order: I think it was Stewart and Oliver were writing the bit together. Oliver's utter dissonance when Stewart dropped the bit was funny. I cannot believe Oliver held it together to the level he did. Has TDS ever done that level of goodbye for a correspondent before? Finally, I don't think there was a bigger winner in television in 2013 than John Oliver, and there were few people more deserving. -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
