The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart YouTube Stats

@weeklyshowpodcast · News & Politics · Updated Nov 7, 2026

The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart channel overview

The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart (@weeklyshowpodcast) is a YouTube channel in the News & Politics niche created in 2024. It has 924K subscribers and 158M total views across 696 videos, an average of 228K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 796K views, and a typical video (the median) gets 822K views. Over the last 12 months, The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart published 43 videos (30% Shorts), and 1 of them (2%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

How much does The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart make?

Returbe estimates The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart's YouTube ad revenue at $16K – $63K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $1.7 to $6.81, typically $3.41, based on the channel's niche, audience language and the share of its views coming from Shorts. At that rate, 1 million long-form views earn about $3.4K.

Ad revenue is only part of the picture: sponsorships, affiliate links, memberships and merch often pay more than ads. Learn how RPM varies by niche in how much YouTubers make per 1,000 views, or check any channel with the free monetization checker.

Upload schedule

The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart publishes about 17.4 videos a month. Based on its last 43 uploads, its most common upload day is Thursday (28% of uploads), usually around 13:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 6, 2026.

The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart's best outlier videos

An outlier is a video that beats the channel's own typical views. These are The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart's biggest hits relative to its normal, the ideas its audience responded to most. What is an outlier video?

• Thank You, Voters | The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart1.4M views · Nov 4, 20264× typical views
• Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Socialism, Politics & NYC | The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart2.4M views · Aug 9, 20262.9× typical views
• Jonathan Swan’s Dive into Trump’s Reality | The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart2.2M views · Oct 8, 20262.7× typical views
• Abdul El-Sayed’s Progressive Policy Prescription | The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart2.1M views · Oct 24, 20262.6× typical views
• Podcasting Through It with Heather Cox Richardson | The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart1.8M views · Apr 11, 20262.2× typical views
• AI's Circle Jerk | The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart776K views · Oct 28, 20262.1× typical views
• A Bulwark Against Trump with Sarah Longwell | The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart1.6M views · Nov 6, 20262× typical views
• Data Centers, Debt & the Risks of AI’s Finances w/ Ed Zitron | The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart1.5M views · Oct 29, 20261.9× typical views

Latest videos

10 of The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• Elon Got Cybertrucked! | The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart224K views · Nov 6, 20260.6× typical views
• Future Of Never Trumpers | The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart223K views · Nov 6, 20260.6× typical views
• A Bulwark Against Trump with Sarah Longwell | The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart1.6M views · Nov 6, 20262× typical views
• MAGA Media Meltdown | The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart325K views · Nov 5, 20260.9× typical views
• Rejecting MAGA | The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart208K views · Nov 5, 20260.6× typical views
• Fresh Leadership | The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart199K views · Nov 5, 20260.5× typical views
• Thank You, Voters | The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart1.4M views · Nov 4, 20264× typical views
• Trump 😍 Butts | The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart84K views · Oct 30, 20260.2× typical views
• Anthropic's Valuation | The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart471K views · Oct 30, 20261.3× typical views
• Election F**kery? | The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart103K views · Oct 29, 20260.3× typical views

The News & Politics niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 59K videos from 997 channels in this niche. 17% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 16K views. Estimated RPM for the niche: $2 to $8.

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Frequently asked questions

Data from Returbe's index of YouTube channels, collected from public YouTube data. Earnings are estimates from views and RPM benchmarks, not figures from the channel. Returbe is not affiliated with The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart or YouTube.