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Back from nan vacation vacation, Jon Stewart began his Monday nighttime stint astatine The Daily Show successful hopeless request of “some bully news.”
“I request immoderate relief. And I’ll show you why. Because arsenic galore of you know, that large Freedom 250 performance that I’ve so been looking guardant to,” he began sarcastically, pausing for assemblage laughter, “has tally into immoderate problems.”
Like his Sunday late-night counterpart John Oliver before him, Stewart had plentifulness of jokes astir nan bequest acts who dropped retired of nan nation’s semiquincentennial complete governmental concerns — each of whom stock nan aforesaid booking supplier successful Jeff Epstein of Universal Attractions Agency.
“Jeff Epstein of Universal Attractions is successful complaint of — forgive maine — recruiting talent for a Donald Trump party? That’s what you’re telling me?” Stewart said, incredulous.
“He yet thought he was going to get his happy end— but nope. Once again, they time off him hanging. Uh,” he said, earlier immoderate successful nan crowd jeered. “Oh, I’m sorry. I’m sorry. Too soon? Too soon? I didn’t cognize we had truthful galore Epstein sympathizers successful nan room!”
The governmental comic past transitioned to jabs astir nan continued drawn-out process of nan Iran-U.S. bid talks.
“You’re nan top negotiator successful nan world, and you’re saying that it’s difficult to bring together 2 differing sides pinch competing interests? If only location was a connection for closing that gap, a personification who could thief adjacent it. I don’t know, a gap-a-closenator,” Stewart quipped.
Toward nan last minutes of nan host’s monologue, Stewart was interrupted by nary different than Olivia Munn.
“Jonathan, coming is astir you. I americium present to grant you on 1 of your biggest, last typical sendoff shows. Just for illustration [Stephen] Colbert had a large production, immense stars — everyone loved it — I’m present for you, for that,” she said, arsenic Stewart tried to affirm that he was not leaving anytime soon and that “this is simply a normal Monday show.”
The Your Friends & Neighbors character past pulled retired an acoustic guitar, singing nan lyrics to an original song, which Stewart pointed retired was intelligibly written for Colbert. “You’re right,” she said. “No 1 cares if you leave.”
“OK, that’s not necessary,” he said, arsenic nan crowd booed successful support.
Munn noted she had missed retired connected Colbert’s sendoff erstwhile bookers passed connected her, and Stewart assured she’s invited immoderate time. “Really? Oh my God, convey you truthful overmuch ’cause there’s really not a batch of options left. It’s fundamentally conscionable you aliases nan Hot Ones feline [Sean Evans],” she said.
When Stewart added that she could return to nan table without needing to “pretend” to play an instrument, Munn scoffed: “I tin play guitar. How do you deliberation I sewage booked [for] nan Freedom 250 concert?”
