“Jon Stewart slipped unnoticed into the White House in the midst of the October 2011 budget fight, summoned to an Oval Office coffee with President Barack Obama that he jokingly told his escort felt like being called into the principal’s office.” Jon Stewart visited the White House. And Obama visited The Daily Show. That gives you some idea of the influence — on both sides of the aisle — Jon Stewart has built up over his tenure.

+ GQ’s Amy Wallace visits with the awesome Jeffrey Tambor who “is finally getting his leading-man moment. All he had to do was become a woman.”