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Jon Stewart and The News Team Tackle the 2026 Midterm Candidates | The Daily Show
LongComedy
Published Oct 17, 2026
Views
3M
Likes
30K
Speed /h
51K
+24h
+748K
Early catch
Updated 04:10 AMBeat 90% of videos its age, 32 h after upload.
- Vs usual
- 2×
- Views/h now
- 31K
- Channel size
- 163K
Black: this video’s views at each read. Shaded: the median to the top 10% (the board’s reach bar) of all videos of its format at the same age; dashed: their top 1%.
Views over time
Views gained each hour, UTC- Views
- 3.2M
- Best hour
- +67.3K
- At 24 hours
- 1.9M
- At 7 days
- –
45 of 45 hours read. A gap is an hour we didn’t read close enough to say, not an hour without views.
viralshooter analytics
Our calculations on YouTube API data. Not YouTube metrics.
Position
- Speed percentile
- 89 / 100
- Category percentile
- 97 / 100
- ×base
- ×20
- Channel typical
- 163K · median
Dynamics
- Phase
- steady
- Acceleration
- 0.56×
- Momentum
- ×4.58
- Decay
- 0.44
- Speed half-life
- 10d
Engagement
- Like rate
- 0.92%
- Comments per 1k views
- 0.27
- Engagement rate
- 0.95%
- Views per subscriber
- 0.23×
- Crossed a language border
- No
◆ Calculated by viralshooter from YouTube API data. Not YouTube metrics and not endorsed by YouTube.
| Region | Chart | Best rank | First seen |
|---|---|---|---|
| Denmark | Category chart | #2 | Oct 19 |
| Norway | Category chart | #2 | Oct 19 |
| Canada | Category chart | #4 | Oct 18 |
| United States | Category chart | #4 | Oct 18 |
| Australia | Category chart | #6 | Oct 19 |
| Switzerland | Category chart | #7 | Oct 19 |
| Ireland | Category chart | #7 | Oct 19 |
| New Zealand | Category chart | #7 | Oct 19 |
| Sweden | Category chart | #9 | Oct 19 |
| United Kingdom | Category chart | #15 | Oct 19 |
| Belgium | Category chart | #16 | Oct 19 |
| Austria | Category chart | #17 | Oct 19 |
| Netherlands | Category chart | #21 | Oct 19 |
| Singapore | Category chart | #29 | Oct 19 |
| Germany | Category chart | #46 | Oct 19 |
| Canada | Category chart | #135 | Oct 18 |
| Spain | Category chart | #142 | Oct 18 |
3d
From the YouTube record
Fields of the video as the YouTube API returns them.
- Published
- Oct 17, 2026, 1:00 PM
- Duration
- 21:26
- Category
- Comedy
- Audio language
- English (en-US)
- Title language
- English (en)
- Captions
- No
- Definition
- HD
- Format
- 2D
- License
- Standard YouTube
- Licensed content
- Yes
- Embeddable
- Yes
- Made for kids
- No
- Age-restricted
- No
- Paid promotion
- No
- Public stats
- No
Topics
- Entertainment
- Politics
- Television program
Title and description in 1 languages
- English
Tags (23)
- the daily show
- the daily show episodes
- comedy central
- comedians
- comedian
- funny video
- comedy videos
- funny clips
- daily show
- news
- politics
- tom kean
- jon stewart
- election
- midterms
- midterm election
- michael kosta
- jordan klepper
- Vivek Ramaswamy
- ohio
- florida
- te brown
- susan collins
Description
Jon Stewart, Michael Kosta, and Jordan Klepper cover the contenders for the 2026 midterms: New Jersey congressional candidate Tom Kean pulls a months-long disappearing act, AI deepfakes take over political ads, Florida's Te Brown avoids the cops while seeking office in two different states, chronically “concerned” Susan Collins runs from accountability, and Vivek Ramaswamy nearly drops a kid at a rally in Ohio. #DailyShow #Midterms #Election #VivekRamaswamy #TomKean #TeBrown Subscribe to The Daily Show: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwWhs_6x42TyRM4Wstoq8HA/?sub_confirmation=1 Follow The Daily Show: Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDailyShow Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thedailyshow Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thedailyshow Stream full episodes of The Daily Show on Paramount+: http://www.paramountplus.com/thedailyshow Follow Comedy Central: Twitter: https://twitter.com/ComedyCentral Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ComedyCentral Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/comedycentral About The Daily Show: Jon Stewart and The Best F**king News Team host The Daily Show, an Emmy and Peabody Award-winning program analyzing the biggest stories in news, politics, and culture through a sharp, satirical lens. The Daily Show redefined the late night show category on TV and, with an audience of over 51M across social media platforms, has become a launching pad for some of the biggest stars in entertainment. The Daily Show airs weeknights at 11/10c on Comedy Central.Show all
Jon Stewart, Michael Kosta, and Jordan Klepper cover the contenders for the 2026 midterms: New Jersey congressional candidate Tom Kean pulls a months-long disappearing act, AI deepfakes take over political ads, Florida's Te Brown avoids the cops while seeking office in two different states, chronically “concerned” Susan Collins runs from accountability, and Vivek Ramaswamy nearly drops a kid at a rally in Ohio. #DailyShow #Midterms #Election #VivekRamaswamy #TomKean #TeBrown Subscribe to The Daily Show: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwWhs_6x42TyRM4Wstoq8HA/?sub_confirmation=1 Follow The Daily Show: Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheDailyShow Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thedailyshow Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thedailyshow Stream full episodes of The Daily Show on Paramount+: http://www.paramountplus.com/thedailyshow Follow Comedy Central: Twitter: https://twitter.com/ComedyCentral Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ComedyCentral Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/comedycentral About The Daily Show: Jon Stewart and The Best F**king News Team host The Daily Show, an Emmy and Peabody Award-winning program analyzing the biggest stories in news, politics, and culture through a sharp, satirical lens. The Daily Show redefined the late night show category on TV and, with an audience of over 51M across social media platforms, has become a launching pad for some of the biggest stars in entertainment. The Daily Show airs weeknights at 11/10c on Comedy Central.
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