God, that has to be depressing for him. He did so much to set that show up for success, but he's now coming back in to put out fires and try to get it working again.
He thought he was retiring and moving to doing good work. AppleTV fucked him on editorial control and his baby TDS couldn't hold itself up on its own.
Meanwhile his protegee is winning Emmy after Emmy with one of the best programs out there.
And worse, coming back in for the 2024 election. The joke people were telling when he left is that leaving right as Trump was coming into power was 'such a waste' of comedy potential. And his response was, pretty frankly, that it was an awful thing he didn't want to see. Now he's coming right back into it.
I really hope he's able to come back, get it back in shape, and then find a strong successor and go back to doing the projects he really wants to be doing. If anyone can, it's Stewart, I suppose. I'll give it a watch with him back in the helm, which is more than I can say of most of the rest of it since he left.