Many mourned when Jon Stewart left The Daily Show earlier this year, and while he’s popped up here and there since, most of us would like regular doses of him on our screens again. Thanks to a deal Stewart signed with HBO, that may soon be the case. Only this time the screens will be smaller and, as he potentially previewed on The Daily Show with Trevor Noah last night, the content will be shorter.

Stewart’s deal with HBO has him focusing, for now, on “short-form digital content” for the HBO Go and HBO Now streaming services. (With a potential for TV series and movie projects down the road.) We got a taste of what a short-form digital piece from Stewart might look like last night.

The former Daily Show host set up a pre-taped clip by saying that he had a topic he was passionate about but that because “I don’t have a show, and nobody gives a shit anymore.” That subject is the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act which was passed five years ago to support first responders (thanks in large part to The Daily Show) but expired in part in September 2015 and will expire more fully next October.

To shame Congress into doing something to protect the act, Stewart mustered a full camera crew and produced something that looked a lot like a classic Daily Show pre-taped segment. Only instead of eager young correspondents in suits, we have a bearded Stewart in an F.D.N.Y. shirt and jeans. Stewart then went on to use his temporary Daily Show platform in order to take direct aim at Senator Mitch McConnell and present a stunning visual on the health of 9/11 first responders. Stewart reconvened a panel of four first responders he had on the show in 2010 and—due to poor health or death—only one was able to make it.

Now, can we be sure that Stewart will be doing something similar to this for HBO? Not at all. Knowing Stewart, his short-form digital content could be all about wrestling or beard maintenance. Stewart clearly wants to put some distance between himself and his old gig. “Appearing on television 22 minutes a night clearly broke me. I’m pretty sure I can produce a few minutes of content every now and again,” Stewart joked when announcing his deal with HBO. And, on a recent podcast, HBO’s other shiny new star Bill Simmons said Stewart confided that he was worn out from being at the center of a polarized and extreme news cycle.

So it’s possible Stewart’s new HBO content will have nothing to do with politics. But watching Stewart tear up ever so slightly as he talked passionately about 9/11 first responders last night, it’s hard to imagine Stewart pursuing a project where he’s not able to use his platform and power to effect change. There’s no indication whether those HBO segments will be bookended by Stewart sitting back behind a desk like his former colleague John Oliver does. But after watching him scream “he’s not nice!” in reference to McConnell, it’s clear that Stewart in disgruntled, bearded anchorman mode would be pure magic for HBO.