The Daily Show gains 100,000 subscribers alongside Lydic's Nvidia segment
Josh Johnson joins Desi Lydic's tech-news satire, while a Jon Stewart Short also draws an unusually fast start.
Why this story? The channel is adding 99,987 subscribers a day, 91 times a normal day (1,095).
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Desi Lydic's Nvidia segment has drawn nearly five million views, with Josh Johnson joining her for a comic response to the story. It arrives alongside a sharp subscriber jump for The Daily Show: about 100,000 in a day, rather than its usual daily gain of roughly a thousand.
The segment brings the program's news-satire treatment to reporting about Nvidia, espionage allegations and permission to sell chips to China. Johnson joins toward the end, following Lydic's breakdown. Its first-day viewing was more than six times the usual start for the channel's regular videos.
There is another fast-moving upload in the mix. The Jon Stewart Short about Trump's preference for heaven, and the complication of forgiving his enemies, started at more than eight times the channel's usual pace for Shorts.
Those individual hits sit beside a less obvious contrast: the channel's overall daily views are below its usual level. The subscriber jump accompanies standout uploads, not an across-the-board rise in viewing.
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- Channel
- The Daily Show
- Subscribers
- 14,200,000 ▲ 100,000 this week
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 81,501,201
- Channel views, pace per day
- 7,030,062 (on a normal day: 11,304,920)
The numbers
Here is how the subscriber jump and the two fast-starting uploads compare with the channel's usual day.


