Jon Stewart’s first show back (screenshot)
Jon Stewart made a “triumphant” return to Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show” on Monday night. But was this a triumph for the comic or the result of his failures since leaving?
“Why am I back,” Jon Stewart asked his audience. Did he go back because he had nothing better to do? And did Comedy Central only take him back because the show’s ratings plummeted and it could not find a new permanent host? And don’t forget his failed attempts at becoming a Hollywood movie director.
Obviously the world was desperate for Jon Stewart to return to tell everyone what is right and what is wrong. Stewart stepped down in 2015, a year before Donald Trump became President. Many people speculated what it would have been like to have his commentary on Trump offered up on a daily basis. Unfortunately, they had to make do with Jimmy Kimmel, Stephen Colbert, Seth Meyers and many more slam Trump every day on their talk shows.
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Fortunately, for all, Jon Stewart could not live without an outlet for his narcissism. Not since Apple canceled his failed talk show “The Problem with Jon Stewart” that nobody watched. Of course, Stewart maintains that the program was canceled due to his politics and insistence on criticizing the Chinese government when Apple worried this would harm its business interests in the country.
Jon Stewart is not impressed with either Joe Biden or Donald Trump.
“These two candidates, they are both similarly challenged,” Jon Stewart said on his first show back. “And it is not crazy to think that the oldest people in the history of the country to ever run for president might have some of these challenges.”
“They’re both stretching the limits of being able to handle the toughest job in the world,” he added. “What’s crazy is thinking that we’re the ones, as voters, who must silence concerns and criticisms. It is the candidates’ job to assuage concerns, not the voters’ job not to mention [them]
“One thing we know for certain is this: We have two candidates who are chronologically outside the norm of anyone who has run for the presidency in the history of this country,” he said.
“Joe Biden isn’t Donald Trump, but the stakes of this election don’t make Donald Trump’s opponent less subject to scrutiny,” added Jon Stewart. “If your guy loses, bad things might happen, but the country is not over. And if your guy wins, the country is not saved.”
What?
What does that mean?
Well, the good news is we will have plenty of time to figure it out. Jon Stewart will be on once a week for the next year.
