The Daily Show seasons
31 seasons · Comedy Central31 seasons · Comedy Central
Season 29 is the biggest. Season 31 started 13% lower than season 30, after a wait of 4 weeks.Season 29 is the biggest. Season 31 started 13% lower than season 30, after a wait of 4 weeks.
The Daily Show seasons
Through Nov 6Season Attention Score is a season's average Attention Score in its first 30 days. Learn more
SeasonSeason Attention ScoreChange
- Season 1Jul 1996 · 7 episodes
- 6 months after season 1 premieredSeason 2Jan 1997 · 16 episodes
- 1 year, 2 months after season 2 premieredSeason 3Mar 1998 · 33 episodes
- 10 months after season 3 premieredSeason 4Jan 1999 · 159 episodes
- 1 year after season 4 premieredSeason 5Jan 2000 · 166 episodes
- 1 year after season 5 premieredSeason 6Jan 2001 · 158 episodes
- 1 year after season 6 premieredSeason 7Jan 2002 · 160 episodes
- 1 year after season 7 premieredSeason 8Jan 2003 · 161 episodes
- 1 year after season 8 premieredSeason 9Jan 2004 · 161 episodes
- 1 year after season 9 premieredSeason 10Jan 2005 · 159 episodes
- 1 year after season 10 premieredSeason 11Jan 2006 · 161 episodes
- 1 year after season 11 premieredSeason 12Jan 2007 · 138 episodes
- 1 year after season 12 premieredSeason 13Jan 2008 · 160 episodes
- 1 year after season 13 premieredSeason 14Jan 2009 · 161 episodes
- 1 year after season 14 premieredSeason 15Jan 2010 · 161 episodes
- 1 year after season 15 premieredSeason 16Jan 2011 · 124 episodes
- 9 months after season 16 premieredSeason 17Oct 2011 · 157 episodes
- 1 year after season 17 premieredSeason 18Oct 2012 · 158 episodes
- 1 year after season 18 premieredSeason 19Sep 2013 · 159 episodes
- 1 year after season 19 premieredSeason 20Sep 2014 · 142 episodes
- 1 year after season 20 premieredSeason 21Sep 2015 · 161 episodes
- 1 year after season 21 premieredSeason 22Oct 2016 · 163 episodes57%
- 1 year after season 22 premieredSeason 23Oct 2017 · 157 episodes26%
- 1 year after season 23 premieredSeason 24Oct 2018 · 158 episodes10%
- 1 year after season 24 premieredSeason 25Sep 2019 · 160 episodes3%
- 1 year after season 25 premieredSeason 26Sep 2020 · 116 episodes4%
- 1 year after season 26 premieredSeason 27Sep 2021 · 140 episodes10%
- Straight after season 27Season 28Oct 2022 · 122 episodes60%
- 2 months after season 28Season 29Feb 2024 · 138 episodes218%
- 4 weeks after season 29Season 30Jan 2025 · 142 episodes47%
- 4 weeks after season 30Season 31Jan 2026 · 142 episodes13%
First 30 days of each The Daily Show season
Through Nov 6Attention Score on each day after a season came out
Day 1 is the premiere. Each mark on the bottom line is a day with a new episode of season 31.
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Time between The Daily Show seasons
Through Nov 6Usually 1 year between seasons. The longest wait was 1 year, 2 months, before season 3.
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