Most of us have been pushed and landed on our ass, instead of our feet, at one point or another. Of course, being callously told to throw your stuff in a cardboard box and leave lends itself to feelings of humiliation. But just because someone fires you doesn’t mean it’s the end of the road, at least if you take fellow late-night icon Dave Letterman’s advice to Jon Stewart to heart.
“They have locked the door and told me, ‘Get your shit and get out’,” Stewart told fellow comedian Larry Wilmore in 2016 during the final episode of Wilmore’s canceled late-night talk show, The Nightly Show. Stewart was talking about how some people in the entertainment world treated him after missteps in his early career. Back in the early 1990s, Stewart had a talk show of his own on MTV, aptly titled The Jon Stewart Show. He described it as a bit of a scramble as the show was bought by Paramount to replace comedian Arsenio Hall's.
