committed to certain issues. >> we are, as we speak, live from our election center studios in new york city's abandoned prostitute district. >> it was the 2000 presidential campaign when the show went from being mostly about pop culture to really focusing on the election. >> steve bodow was jon stewart's executive producer on "the daily show". >> by then, the show was a political show and it pretty much has been ever since. >> good news for mitt romney, he has won tonight, we can announce this right now, most of the confederacy. >> giovanni russonello writes the best of late-night column for "the new york times." >> mulling over the certain compact news story and teasing out all the ironies of it has become sort of the rubric for almost everybody on late-night. >> responding to trump's ill-informed tweets can be a full-time job. and i know, because it's my full-time job. >> late-night now had a blueprint. new shows were spawning new talent. >> jon stewart is the jumping