Jon Stewart returned to host Tuesday’s (July 16) version of The Every day Present after Comedy Central shelved Monday’s episode, initially deliberate to broadcast from the Republican Nationwide Conference in Milwaukee.
“What a horrible f**king week,” Stewart mentioned on the high of the present earlier than sharing his ideas on the tried assassination of former president Donald Trump and the choice to not air Monday’s present.
The host sarcastically mocked his personal choice to return to The Every day Present to cowl the 2024 election. “‘Hey Jon, come again to The Every day Present only for the election, it’ll be enjoyable,’” he quipped. “’You are able to do sooner or later per week, it’ll be fun. What might go mistaken?’”
Stewart famous how they had been meant to be doing this week’s exhibits from the Republican Nationwide Conference in Milwaukee “however due to the try on the previous president’s life, the venue wherein we deliberate to do the present, a theater, which was initially positioned within the mushy perimeter was shifted, understandably so, to the arduous perimeter.”
“You actually don’t need to be within the arduous perimeter,” he continued. “It was locked down. They constructed cages across the theater, and due to that, we felt that we couldn’t placed on the theater exhibits successfully with out… individuals.”
Stewart additionally praised the mayor of Milwaukee for being accommodating and gracious to the present and mentioned he hoped they may reschedule an occasion there for the longer term. One occasion he’s decided to nonetheless make occur is “Indogcision,” the place “we get canines adopted and folks registered to vote.”
Nevertheless, he gave the “largest slice of reward” to the manufacturing group and crew for rescheduling and transferring every thing from Milwaukee to New York to get the present arrange and prepared in time for Tuesday night time.
As for his ideas on the capturing, Stewart mentioned, “We dodged a disaster, however it was nonetheless a tragedy.”
He additionally paid his respects to firefighter Corey Comperatore, who died from the capturing. “He had given his life in service to his neighborhood and he died actually shielding his household,” Stewart defined. “He’s a reminder that in these moments of disaster, there are helpers, and we are able to all make a option to attempt to be a kind of individuals.”
The comic additionally targeted on the net response and conspiracies.
“It’s this sample I really feel like we now have within the nation after we hear a few horrific occasion,” he mentioned. “You’re on pins and needles on this type of reverse demographic lottery to be sure that the psychopathic shooter doesn’t belong to one among your groups. , you simply sit there going, ‘Please, no Democrats, no liberals, no progressives…’”
He added, “And we’re all doing it. We’re all doing it. As a result of we’ve got to know what our posture shall be on the tragedy: Will or not it’s a haughty ‘I informed you,’ or maybe a circumspect, ‘Oh, let’s not rush to judgment. We shouldn’t generalize.’ After which it finally ends up being somebody we are able to’t even f**king work out within the first place.”
Stewart then introduced on former Fox Information host Invoice O’Reilly, somebody with whom he has clashed all through the years. O’Reilly final appeared on The Every day Present in 2014, when he and Stewart had a heated debate about race and white privilege.
“I like approaching right here, in entrance of all your mates out right here — and the viewers ought to know, I’ve no mates right here,” O’Reilly mentioned as he joined Stewart on the desk.
“Properly, not simply right here,” Stewart quipped.
The controversy this time round was friendlier, with the pair discussing the occasions that passed off in Pennsylvania on Saturday (July 13). O’Reilly, who has written a number of books concerning the assassinations of presidents, mentioned that each murderer or would-be murderer in American historical past has been mentally unwell.
Stewart then introduced up John Wilkes Sales space, the person who killed President Abraham Lincoln, to which O’Reilly mentioned, “Properly, John Wilkes Sales space was a fanatical conservative and racist who hated Lincoln.”
“Good factor that’s gone overseas,” Stewart joked.
You’ll be able to watch Stewart’s full opening monologue and debate with O’Reilly above.
The Every day Present, Weeknights, 11/10c, Comedy Central
