Jon Stewart to Pull a Rachel Maddow

Jon Stewart is taking a page from the Rachel Maddow playbook in his return to “The Daily Show.”

Stewart is returning to The Daily Show on February 12th but will only be hosting the show on Mondays.

Maddow made a deal with MSNBC to host her show only on Mondays.

“Jon Stewart is the voice of our generation, and we are honored to have him return to Comedy Central’s The Daily Show to help us all make sense of the insanity and division roiling the country as we enter the election season,” Chris McCarthy, president and CEO of Showtime/MTV Entertainment Studios, said in a statement. “In our age of staggering hypocrisy and performative politics, Jon is the perfect person to puncture the empty rhetoric and provide much-needed clarity with his brilliant wit.”

The Daily Show has not had a permanent host since Trevor Noah left last year.