Jon Stewart Defends MAGA Rally “comedian” At MSG
Jon Stewart Defends Tony Hinchcliffe After Controversial Trump Rally Jokes: 'I Find That Guy Very Funny' https://t.co/3gX45wDHLH
- Variety (@Variety) October 29, 2024
On Monday’s episode of The Daily Show, Jon Stewart talked about the conservative “comedian” that was the opening act of Trump’s rally at Madison Square Garden on Sunday.
After playing a supercut of CNN and MSNBC news anchors calling the rally “racist”, “hateful” and “disgusting”, he stated:
“Obviously, in retrospect, having a roast comedian come to a political rally a week before election day and roasting a key demographic … probably not the best decision by the campaign politically, but to be fair, the guy’s just really doing what he does.”
Stewart then played jokes from the “comedian’s” “Roast of Tom Brady” set earlier this year, laughing at the segment and saying, “Yes, yes, of course, terrible, boo. There’s something wrong with me. I find that guy very funny. I’m sorry, I don’t know what to tell you. I mean, bringing him to a rally and having him not do roast jokes? That’d be like bringing Beyoncé to a rally and not…,”
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He can find his anti-Semitic jokes hilarious all he wants but he cannot speak for all the black and brown people who are upset about the man’s explicitly racist comments at MSG (especially when he didn't go after white people at all). Also roasts are for comedy clubs, not political rallies.