What is The Daily Show about?
The World's Fakest News Team tackle the biggest stories in news, politics and pop culture.
The Daily Show (1996)
A brisk, satirical news team delivers witty takes on politics and pop culture with gritty humor.
Dry wit. A full-attention watch at a brisk pace. Emotionally it carries some weight.
Streaming on Paramount+.
The Daily Show parents guide
Some innuendo or implied sex and some strong language, about what a TV-14 should carry.
Our estimate: fine from about 13. Rated TV-14.
- Scare
- Not scary
- Jump scares
- None noted
- Gore
- No gore
- Violence
- No real violence
- Sex and nudity
- Mild
- Mild means innuendo, or sex implied off screen, with no nudity.
- Language
- Moderate
- Some strong profanity, a few f-words.
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Cast and crew
Created byMadeleine Smithberg, Lizz Winstead
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