Jon Stewart: Then-NBC boss Jeff Zucker wanted me to be Jay Leno's full-time Tonight Show guest-host

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"That was the weirdest f*cking dinner," says Stewart of his dinner meeting with Zucker during the Leno era of The Tonight Show. Stewart tells Howard Stern that Leno had no idea that Zucker had pitched having him be The Tonight Show's permanent guest-host, a role Leno filled for Johnny Carson's Tonight Show.