A question about comedy as John Oliver takes over The Daily Show - TV Guidance - Macleans.ca: almost everything is gone. Even “The Toss” between Stewart and Colbert is gone. Instead, the first act is almost always an extended version of what Kilborn and Stewart used to call “Headlines,” and the second act is often the same, unless it’s a pre-taped field piece. Free-form riffing on the day’s news, field pieces and interviews; that’s pretty much all she wrote.
I don’t know why this happened, exactly, or why the show hasn’t developed new segments to replace the ones that were retired.