“The Daily Show” reviewed the issues, politicians and pundits it eviscerated, destroyed and slammed in Jon Stewart’s 16-year tenure on Wednesday, and asked the question: Did the show sufficiently destroy the world?
“We’ve built a monument to evisceration. Issues, pundits, politicians, we here at the show left no target un-disembowled,” Stewart said, putting up a graphic with headlines showing him doing just that. “In fact, if you’re still walking around with a belly of viscera, know this: We didn’t forget you. We’ll put it all up on the web. By the way it wasn’t just eviscerated. We demolished, crushed.”
But “The Daily Show” then took a quick catalog: Is ISIS still powerful? Are big banks still around? Is Fox News still an important part of our political discourse?
Stewart didn’t like what he found.
“What is going on? The world is demonstrably worse than when I started. Have I caused this?!?” Stewart asked, pulling out a Hamlet-like skull. “Have my efforts all been for naught?”
Depending on who you ask, this is more than likely true, but the New York Mets are in first place in the National League Eastern Division so Stewart still had reason to celebrate.
Watch the clip, from Comedy Central, below:
