Jon Stewart is weighing in.
The Daily Show host, who typically only anchors Monday nights, opened an emergency episode on Thursday by remarking on Jimmy Kimmel‘s late-night nixing after comments he made days ago about the murder of political pundit Charlie Kirk.
As we’ve been reporting, other late-night hosts have stepped forward to speak out about Kimmel’s show being indefinitely pulled off the air. And now, the political-minded Stewart is joining the fray.
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The 62-year-old opened his latest episode by sarcastically joking that he would be hosting a “patriotically obedient” and “government-approved” show. He quipped:
“We have another fun, hilarious, administration-compliant show.”
And then, as the audience laughed before beginning to boo President Donald Trump over the Kimmel fiasco, Stewart shushed them and yelled:
“Don’t f**king blow this for us!”
The legendary comedian then covered Trump’s trip to England by very cynically complimenting the president with some of the wittiest shade he could muster:
“Our great administration has laid out very clear rules on free speech. Now some naysayers may argue that this administration’s speech concerns are merely a cynical ploy. A thin gruel of a ruse. A smokescreen to obscure an unprecedented consolidation of power and unitarian intimidation and coldly antithetical to any experiment in a constitutional republic governance. Some people would say that. Not me though. I think it’s great.”
You can watch it all (below):
Like we said, Stewart usually only hosts the Daily Show on Mondays, so altering his schedule to host this late-week episode was a major bid to show solidarity with Kimmel.
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