Jon Stewart headlined a particular episode of The Each day Present on Thursday (September 18) night time and, as anticipated, the 25-time Emmy winner reacted to the information that ABC suspended fellow late-night host Jimmy Kimmel Dwell! within the midst of stress from the Federal Communications Fee chair. Solely, as a substitute of addressing the difficulty head-on with a instantly scathing monologue or considerate speech on censorship, Stewart took his uniquely satirical strategy to the matter.
Within the opening act of the episode (embedded above), Stewart spent 23 straight minutes cosplaying as a North Korea-style media sycophant of Donald Trump, shivering with unbridled enthusiasm for the president and discovering variety phrases to say about each doable scenario involving Trump.
Dubbing himself a “patriotically obedient host,” Stewart reacted to the entire highlights of Trump’s abroad go to to the UK — particularly probably the most awkward moments of his state dinner with Nice Britain’s royal household — with utter adulation.
“Father has been gracing England along with his legendary heat and radiance. Gaze upon him with a gait much more majestic than that of the royal horses that pranced earlier than him, he wowed the English with appeal, intelligence, and an plain sexual charisma that stuffed their air like a pheromone-packed London fog,” Stewart joked of Trump’s look. “And as a part of this historic journey, the perfectly-tinted Trump dazzled his hosts at dinner with an illustration of his unmatched oratory talent.”
Stewart continued the schtick of lavishing reward upon Trump for the subsequent jiffy, pretending to be sheepishly afraid that he, too, may face the wrath of the administration’s FCC chair, earlier than relating the Kimmel scenario instantly… er, not directly, because the case could also be.
“Now the go to to England couldn’t have gone higher for our president. Lastly, a rustic affording our nice chief the respect and deference that any solar god would command,” he mentioned, earlier than introducing a clip of a British journalist asking, “We noticed the dismissal of a really well-known chat present host in America final night time, Mr. Kimmel. Is free speech extra underneath assault in Britain or America?” To that, Stewart responded with feigned outrage, “How dare you, sir?! How dare you, sir?! What outfit are you with, sir, the Antifa Herald Tribune? Why I wouldn’t even line my parrot’s cage along with your rag. There’s a really affordable rationalization for what befell this scallywag, Kimmel.”
Stewart then performed a clip of Trump reacting to the information himself to say, “Properly, Jimmy Kimmel was fired as a result of he had dangerous rankings greater than the rest, and he mentioned a horrible factor about a terrific gentleman referred to as Charlie Kirk. And Jimmy Kimmel will not be a gifted particular person. He had very dangerous rankings, and they need to have fired him a very long time in the past. So , you possibly can name that free speech or not.”
After momentarily dropping the guise and yelling at Trump’s nonetheless picture to “shut the f**okay up,” Stewart resumed his subservient character efficiency to say, “You might name it free speech in jolly outdated England, however in America, we’ve little one thing referred to as the First Modification. And let me inform you the way it works. It’s a totally scientific instrument that’s saved on the president’s desk, and it tells the president when a performer’s TQ expertise portion, measured principally by niceness to the president, goes under a sure degree, at which level the FCC should be notified to threaten the acquisition prospects for billion-dollar mergers of community associates. These associates are then requested to present ultimatums to the even bigger mega company that controls the circulation of state-approved content material, or the FCC can simply threaten these licenses instantly. It’s primary science.”
Watch the above-embedded clip for Jon Stewart’s full opening phase on Thursday’s The Each day Present version.