Jon Stewart Returns to The Daily Show, Links Trump Aide Natalie Harp to Elizabeth Holmes
Jon Stewart came back to The Daily Show on 9 September 2026 after a month-long hiatus, and his first monologue back used a viral documentary trailer to draw a line between Donald Trump's aide Natalie Harp and convicted Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes (Deadline).
The trailer in question is for You Can See Everything, a documentary about Holmes directed by Nathan Fielder and premiered by A24 at the Telluride Film Festival. A clip released from the film went viral for the intensity of Holmes's unbroken stare at Fielder and a moment in which she rocks her baby with her foot while seated (Deadline).
Stewart used that trailer as a springboard. He described Harp, who is known to some as "the human printer," as a single conduit through which the outside world is filtered before it reaches Donald Trump (Variety). To make the comparison land, he aired a CNN clip displaying one of the letters Harp reportedly wrote to Trump, in which she says: "I never want to bring you anything but you." Stewart joked that he would pretend the line referred to dishwashing liquid (Deadline).
The monologue also trolled Trump over a string of recent events, including Trump's order to rename Lake Ontario as Lake America. That move prompted South Park to announce it was changing its own name to South America (Deadline).
Beyond the opening segment, The Daily Show's website carried an extended interview with Senator Lindsey Graham, titled "Lindsey Graham - Russia, Trump & More - Extended Interview" (The Daily Show). In that conversation, conducted with guest host Al Franken, Graham discussed Russia's war in Ukraine, his years in the U.S. Senate, Trump's legal troubles, and the 2024 presidential election (The Daily Show).
For a returning episode after a month off, the hour touched a remarkable range of ground: a film-festival documentary clip, a presidential aide's letters, a lake renaming, and an animated satire responding to both. Stewart's monologue did what the show does when it is fully loaded — it pulled threads from separate stories and tied them together on the same desk.
