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If helium was sweating, Stewart wasn't showing it, arsenic helium took hosting duties and dissected the concern connected "The Daily Show," successful his ain inimitable style.
Jon Stewart poses for a representation successful promotion of his forthcoming directorial and screenwriting diagnostic debut "Rosewater" connected Nov. 7, 2014 successful New York. Victoria Will/Invision/AP
Jon Stewart has fixed the Trump medication a hosing-down, doing truthful successful the driest imaginable manner.
Stewart and his late-night pals and rivals, including Jimmy Fallon and the outgoing Stephen Colbert, are surely feeling unit pursuing ABC’s arguable determination this week to “indefinitely” suspend Jimmy Kimmel Live, pursuing comments made during his monologue astir Charlie Kirk, the assassinated blimpish pundit.
President Donald Trump celebrated that quality with a station connected Truth Social, and Federal Communications Commission seat Brendan Carr issued his ain informing that the authorization would revoke the licenses of immoderate web affiliates choosing to aerial Kimmel’s remarks, which helium referred to arsenic “news distortion” and “the sickest behaviour possible.”
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Once determination was an imaginary enactment that mustn’t beryllium crossed. Now talk-show hosts tin spot it.
If helium was sweating, Stewart wasn’t showing it, arsenic helium took hosting duties, a alteration from his emblematic schedule, and dissected the concern connected The Daily Show — successful his ain inimitable style.
“We person different amusive hilarious, administration-compliant show,” helium said astatine the apical of his opening gambit, whilst donning a Republican-approving reddish necktie and wearing a look that was dripping successful satire.
Stewart spent a chunk of his opener playing a line-toeing sycophant, referring to Trump arsenic the “great leader,” “sun god” and adjacent “your lordship.”
The Daily Show‘s seasoned big is, of course, a maestro of the treble entendre and helium tin snark with the precise champion of them.
Though measured, Thursday night’s variation was classical Daily Show. The squad fto video bash the talking, arsenic clips played of blimpish talking heads throwing their voices down the Constitutional close to escaped speech, but contradicting themselves erstwhile they don’t similar that speech. Add to that Fox News’ mentation of the Jan. 6 Capital onslaught arsenic a “sightseeing” excursion, and aboriginal Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth making airy on-air astir the 2023 hammer onslaught connected Paul Pelosi, hubby of past House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
“Our large medication has laid retired precise wide rules connected escaped speech,” remarked Stewart. “Now, immoderate naysayers whitethorn reason that this administration’s code concerns are simply a cynical ploy, a bladed gruel of a ruse, a smokescreen to obscure an unprecedented consolidation of powerfulness and unitary intimidation, principle-less and coldly antithetical to immoderate experimentation successful a law republic governance. Some radical would accidental that.” And then, the punchline: “Not maine though, I deliberation that it’s great.”
Earlier this month, The Daily Show collected three wins astatine the Emmy Awards, tied the Comedy Central show’s grounds for wins successful a azygous year.