Jon Stewart was a hot-seeking missile for the evening The Daily Show with a target placed on MAGA’s “sad” meltdown over Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime performance.
Starting with the big game itself, he let out a laugh early and said: “Man, if you like high-scoring tournaments where the outcome is in doubt until the last suspenseful seconds, this not the game is about you. A little bit. Grinding. It almost took all the fun out of watching the Patriots lose.”
But, at least there was a halftime show, where “Mr. Bunny killed it.” The broadcaster added, “It was fun and contagious and—oh, oh, right, okay, I forgot, I forgot: For a large part of the American people, everything that happens has to be filtered in the same way through some MAGA-centric idea and judged by how well it fits into that traditional idea, which doesn’t involve knowing where. biblioteca that’s right.”
With his signature acerbic wit, the comic began with a quip, “Is it too much to ask for a halftime show this great nation can enjoy in its native language? That’s why the good people at TPUSA went through the trouble of putting on another All-American halftime game that celebrated this beautiful country in the English of the King we all share.”
At this point, the screen played a confusing and frenzied moment from Kid Rock’s lip service and a big hit at Turning Point USA, where close captions included lines like “Bawitaba da-bang da-bang diggy-diggy-diggy.” Feeling relieved, Stewart exclaimed, “Thank you! Merriam and Webster couldn’t have put it better, about boogie jumping until diggy diggy da-bang da-bang.”
Furthermore, Stewart asked, “Why fuck is the Super Bowl’s half-hour entertainment mission to unite the country? In what world is that their job? Is there no one else whose job description is more along those lines?”
Elsewhere, the 20-time Emmy winner criticized Republicans’ defense of President Donald Trump’s posting of a racist video depicting the Obamas as monkeys. Playing a clip of Sean Spicer defending the video as not racist but instead “ended with a racist thing,” Stewart responded, with an exaggerated wave of his arms, “If you say the N-word at the end of a sentence, it’s still the whole sentence. There are some things in this world where placement is less important than presence. ‘Oh, have gopnor I dona’t my. Gonorrhea. You’re going to judge my whole penis with a gonorrheal tip Who now racist?’
In a night filled with loud cheers of agreement from the audience, Stewart saved the best for last; his closing speech was interrupted by premature applause: “For all the victories of MAGA, it is not a movement that seems to have confidence in its place. These people, who control all the branches of the government, are moved by someone who sings in Spanish for 20 minutes, they need to create their own safe place different from the halftime show, where Trad Bunny even enjoys singing truck songs and sitting here. you know that somewhere, out there, there is someone who is changing is actually sad, the gap between of the power you all have – I’m not done yet – and the victimization you say is a real crime.
And what else does one do at a “weak and sad party?” Why yogurt of course, he laughed, looking back at the long time he mocked RFK’s choice (“meat and yeast”).
