Jon Stewart, longtime host of the far left Every day Present, just lately appeared on Michelle Obama’s podcast and at one level she requested him if comedy is ‘serving to or hurting’ in ‘this political local weather.’
Stewart is decreased to providing a Kamala Harris phrase salad as a solution.
This second was so loaded with which means. To begin with, Michelle Obama begins by implying that it was exhausting for her to look at something like that whereas her husband was president. Why? Who was making enjoyable of him? Who EVER Made enjoyable of Michelle Obama? Saturday Night time Reside and the Every day Present definitely didn’t.
Additionally, why does Stewart even take her query significantly? Comedy is an efficient factor. It’s solely left wing scolds like Michelle Obama who wish to stifle ridicule.
If President Trump had had an opportunity to ask Stewart this identical query, which he wouldn’t, Stewart would have laughed in his face. However as a result of it’s Michelle Obama who’s asking, he has to take it very significantly.
Transcript through NewsBusters:
OBAMA: Do you assume comedy helps or hurts the political local weather?
STEWART: Oh, wow.
OBAMA: ‘Trigger right here’s what, you realize, like, I imply, generally I simply can’t watch something political, proper?
STEWART: Certain, certain.
OBAMA: Particularly then as a result of—
STEWART: Certain.
OBAMA: —it was like, “Is that is this humorous?”
STEWART: Proper. Proper.
OBAMA: You understand—
STEWART: Effectively, it’s private.
OBAMA: —or is it—yeah, yeah—
STEWART: Yeah, yeah.
OBAMA: —however I, you realize, I ponder what you assume as a result of it—generally I believe is it good that almost all younger persons are getting their information from The Every day Present—
STEWART: Proper.
OBAMA: —or that they, you realize, they need you to run for president—
STEWART: Proper.
OBAMA: —or you realize, I imply, that we’re in that place of, the place, you realize, particularly with social media—
STEWART: Proper.
OBAMA: —it’s like “The humorous man—“
STEWART: I imply, social media has—look, I believe the reveals that that we do now, they exit on social media on the factor—
OBAMA: Yeah.
STEWART: —however to a big extent as a result of we’re infrastructure heavy we’re—we do—we’re in some methods a relic of a earlier period the place it’s kind of like I’m operating a Blockbuster, a video retailer inside a Tower Information, you realize what I imply, the place individuals simply be like, “So that you promote what now? CDs?”
OBAMA: Yeah. Proper.
STEWART: However in different methods, it has extra attain as a result of social media locations at all over the place—
OBAMA: Yeah.
STEWART: —the query is what does—I by no means confuse cultural energy with energy.
Right here’s the video. Watch Jon Stewart squirm:
After Michelle Obama asks him if he thinks “comedy helps or hurts the political local weather,” Jon Stewart rambles on about “I discovered early on that the one of many frustrations of—one of many joys of it’s catharsis and having the ability to specific your self and try this factor that we talked… pic.twitter.com/RehjlKk1nm
— Alex Christy (@alexchristy17) August 27, 2026
Stewart is pathetic. The one cause he took the query significantly is due to who requested it. It’s so apparent.
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