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Back in July,\u00a0The Daily Show<\/i> did something very impressive when it brought in new viewers in the 18-49 demographic when Josh Johnson started as one of the rotating hosts on the show. His very first week beat out\u00a0<\/span>every other late-night show host<\/span><\/a> in that demographic. Now, according to\u00a0<\/span>LateNighter<\/i><\/span><\/a>, The Daily Show<\/i> has performed another impressive feat in that demographic.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Not only did\u00a0TDS<\/i> hit its highest quarterly ratings in the last four years, it had its largest audience share in a decade. But the\u00a0<\/span>biggest noteworthy<\/span><\/a> bit of ratings news comes from the fact that the show is dominating in the 18-49 market \u2014 and more impressively, the 18-34 market. When Jon Stewart hosts on Monday nights, the show is the number one in late night for both groups.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n This is important because young people have all but fled the late-night time slot, leaving the audiences for the live after-hours programming to a mostly geriatric crowd. According to a press release from\u00a0<\/span>Comedy Central<\/span><\/a>, the \u201caward-winning franchise landed the #1 spot among cable late-night series in 3Q, securing the top spot on Monday nights across key adult demos during 10 p.m. to 3 a.m. Social platforms boast the best 3Q social performance in franchise history with views and total minutes consumed, both up double digits.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n In a time when most late-night programming is struggling to capture the eyes of younger audiences,\u00a0TDS<\/i> is showing that there\u2019s room for growth and that Stewart still has the juice to bring in young people. It will be interesting to see what parts of the\u00a0TDS<\/i> are replicable across the other late-night shows, or if Comedy Central will try to bring on Stewart for more nights in order to further bolster their standing with the most sought-after and advertiser-friendly demographic.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n What\u2019s most exciting is that all over the country, liberal boomers texting their college and post-grad children Facebook clips of Stewart\u2019s takedown is not for nothing. Keep texting those horrendous links from a social platform those kids don\u2019t use anymore. It\u2019s working!<\/span><\/p>\n