Tonight is Jon Stewarts Finale with "The Daily Show".
BOLDUAN: Tonight, one of TV's most influential comedians will be ending his television run. Jon Stewart is set to bid farewell after 16 years and nearly 2,600 episodes.</s>BERMAN: Not bad at all. Stewart's finale will be longer than the usual half hour. It'll be about 50 minutes. Who is going to show up? Which correspondents will return? What jokes will he tell? The man with all the answers, CNN's chief media correspondent, host of "Reliable Sources," Brian Stelter, outside the Comedy Central studio. Hey, Brian.</s>BRIAN STELTER, CNN CHIEF MEDIA CORRESPONDENT & CNN HOST, RELIABLE SOURCES: I've got some of the answers, John. I'll manage your expectations. I can tell you that Jon Stewart wants this all to be kept a secret. He does not want anybody to get a preview of what he will be doing tonight. I think we'll see some of his former correspondents come back to greet him, maybe Stephen Colbert, maybe John Oliver, and some of his frenemies. I wonder if Bill O'Reilly will make an appearance. People have strong feelings about Jon Stewart. Some love him, some hate him. Everyone here loves him. These are fans that have been lined up since sunrise today. We spoke to one of them, Peter Knox. Here is what he said about tonight's finale.</s>PETER KNOX, JON STEWART FAN: I'm here because Jon Stewart basically educated most of my generation, I would say, on politics and why we should care about them, engage in them, make sense of them and in an educational way that was funny enough we paid attention. He's an icon and I'm amazed that I'm here live.</s>STELTER: We have a big night, guys. First the debate and then the final Jon Stewart "Daily Show."</s>BOLDUAN: I know. And with that in mind, I'm still surprised that he's ending his run in the middle of what could be an amazing election season.</s>STELTER: Yeah, that's exactly why he says he's doing it. He says the reason he's leaving now, he wants to give the next host, Trevor Noah, more time to get comfortable in the middle of the presidential election cycle. He will have three or four months of practice before the primaries even begin and he'll have lots of fodder for the election cycle next year. I don't think --I know for a fact we've not seen the last of Jon Stewart on TV. He won't have a "Daily Show" again but he'll have something. All the networks you can imagine all would love to sign Jon Stewart. We'll hear from him somewhere, some day in the future.</s>BERMAN: Brian Stelter outside, I think, the most-watched studio on earth today. Thanks so much, Brian.</s>BOLDUAN: Great to see you, Brian. He's going to try to get a seat inside. I know he is. I know he is. He does. Thanks for joining us this hour, everybody.</s>BERMAN: "Legal View" with Ashleigh Banfield starts now.