Apple TV+'s 'The Problem with Jon Stewart' offers free audience tickets for July filming

The new Apple TV+ current affairs show "The Problem with Jon Stewart" is distributing tickets for filming dates in July, allowing fully-vaccinated people to be part of the show's audience.

"The Problem with Jon Stewart" is being filmed in New York on July 14 and July 16, according to ticket distribution service 1iota. Filming will take place in front of a live in-studio audience, with potential members of that crowd now able to apply for tickets to attend.

To attend, audience members must be fully vaccinated for COVID-19 for at least two weeks after receiving their last dose from a one-shot or two-shot vaccine series, the event page first reported by 9to5Mac reads. If a request is successful, audience member pods must upload a photo of their vaccine card to a CTEH portal for review and verification.

As well as providing proof, those in attendance will also have to complete a screening including a temperature check before entering the venue, and will be required to wear appropriate face coverings at all times.

The tickets are free but are only open to people aged 18 years or older. It is also very probable that more recording dates will open up to fill out the rest of the season.

Few details are known about the show itself, except it will be a multi-season, one-hour, single-issue series that will "explore topics that are currently part of the national conversation" and Stewart's advocacy work, said Apple when revealing the show in April.

Apple plans to start airing "The Problem with Jon Stewart" in September. A companion podcast for the show is also planned to be distributed.

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thinkman100000000 3 Years · 87 comments

About 3 years ago

Jon Stewart broke barriers and gave us the (always unpleasant) news in a comedic, schtick-filled way. It wasn't until he left and started popping up on other shows that I realized how annoying and egotistic he is. Put egomaniac/motor-mouth Conan O'Brien and him on stage together and it's likely they will talk over one another until your head explodes!

sconosciuto 4 Years · 295 comments

thinkman100000000 said:

Jon Stewart broke barriers and gave us the (always unpleasant) news in a comedic, schtick-filled way. It wasn't until he left and started popping up on other shows that I realized how annoying and egotistic he is. Put egomaniac/motor-mouth Conan O'Brien and him on stage together and it's likely they will talk over one another until your head explodes!

meh... it is likely a job hazard. I cannot think of a single person who does that kind of job for a living, who doesn't think that their every passing brain fart needs to be shared with the world. Bill Maher is really bad on that count, one of the reasons I quit watching him after 15+ years. Stewart single-handedly killed the wretched "Crossfire", sadly he did not also permanently kill Cucker Tarlson's career but he sure did cause him to be out of favor for several years until Bill O'Reilly's creepiness became too much for even Fox News Channel. Stewart also fought for (and won the fight) 9/11 first responders when Congress wanted to give them the shaft.

I'd rather hear from Stewart any day of the week and twice on Sunday than Hannity or Maher or Ingraham or any of the other bloviating fearmongers.

GeorgeBMac 8 Years · 11421 comments

I know the article said that "few details are known" about the show. But their description of it was, to me, vague and ambiguous.

But, it sounds like Stewart is essentially resurrecting his old Comedy Central show. If so, that could be good -- IF they can keep him from branching off into minor issues causes that he is obsessed with.

I'd like to hear more about this show -- it has a lot of potential.

Appleish 8 Years · 717 comments

I still fondly remember Jon 2004 slicing up Crossfire on CNN:

Tucker Carlson did attempt to backtrack a little and assure Stewart that he and Begala were there “to love you, not confront you. We’re here to be nice.” But Stewart wasn’t having any of it. Even if Carlson was there to be nice, Stewart was not: “I’m here to confront you, because we need help from the media and they’re hurting us… It’s hurting America. Here is what I wanted to tell you guys: Stop. You have a responsibility to the public discourse, and you fail miserably.”

Resulting in Carlson losing his contract at CNN and ending up at GQPFaux News, deep in nothing to do with love.

grblade 16 Years · 93 comments

Appleish said:

Resulting in Carlson losing his contract at CNN and ending up at GQPFaux News, deep in nothing to do with love.

Actually Tucker had already taken a job at MSNBC when Crossfire was set to be canceled but agreed to stay on at CNN until his contract expired. Now he hosts the highest rated show in the history of cable news.