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“The Daily Show” was supposed to be in Milwaukee for the Republican National Convention this week, but the attempt on Donald Trump’s life changed that. “What a terrible [expletive] week,” Jon Stewart said as he opened Tuesday’s show from New York.
“‘Hey Jon, come back to ‘The Daily Show,’ just for the election. It’ll be fun! You’ll do one day a week, it’ll be a laugh! What could go wrong?’” — JON STEWART
With security at the convention enhanced, the theater where they’d planned to tape the show was locked down, Stewart explained. In security parlance, it was now in the “hard perimeter,” not the “soft perimeter.” “You really don’t want to be in the hard perimeter,” he said.
While Stewart touched on the convention’s first two days in his opener, the real amusement came from his sit-down with Bill O’Reilly, the former Fox host who provided fodder for many “Daily Show” jokes in years past.
The two have squared off before, and O’Reilly nodded to that history: “We are able to disagree without hating each other. Now, I truly hate him. But I don’t show it.”
“I like coming on here, in front of all of your friends out here — and the audience should know, I have no friends here.” — BILL O’REILLY
“Well, not just here.” — JON STEWART
O’Reilly tried to distance himself from Trump, saying that as a registered independent, he didn’t have a candidate. Then he pulled out a sheet of paper and rattled off a list of prices, mortgage rates and overdose rates that had risen during the Biden administration.
“I respectfully say, yes, inflation was too high, and that hurt American consumers,” Stewart replied. “So what did Biden do to create that, though?”
“I don’t know, and that’s what I would ask,” O’Reilly said, as the audience began laughing and Stewart shot out of his chair, apparently incredulous.
“Basically, you wrote down on a piece of paper, but you didn’t look up the answer?” Stewart said.
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“And last night, we found out the new Mike Pence is Senator J.D. Vance.” — ANTHONY ANDERSON
“Former President Trump yesterday announced Ohio senator J.D. Vance will be his running mate, despite the fact that Vance once called him a moral disaster and said that he could be America’s Hitler. Damn! If he can say all that and still get picked for vice president, I figure I got a chance at secretary of state at least. I’m in the mix.” — SETH MEYERS
“Look at this guy — he looks like the politician in a sci-fi movie who’s secretly working with the aliens.” — SETH MEYERS, on Vance
“He looks like a Funko Pop doll of himself.” — SETH MEYERS
“He looks like ‘Teen Wolf’ graduated and came back to coach the team.” — SETH MEYERS
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