To understand last week’s election in the United Kingdom, Jon Stewart on Monday turned to clips from the British media, only to discover a nasty surprise.
The host of “The Daily Show” was alarmed to find broadcasts of “creepy Madame Tussauds vote-tally holograms” of the candidates and an “unrealistically polite virtual Parliament that doubled as the worst Sims expansion pack ever.”
Stewart quickly realized the British press had come down with a serious case of “CNN-itus.”
“It’s when a news organization spends a great deal of time creating visuals and set peices, which serve no discernable purpose and shed no discernable light, and actually distract from what it was they were trying to find out,” he said.
Still, Stewart didn’t think the UK press could match CNN itself, which dispatched correspendent and resident Brit Richard Quest to cover Westminster atop “a big red bus.”
Stewart rolled a clip of Alisyn Camerota asking Quest what a Tory victory would mean for Britain’s membership in the European Union.
“Alisyn I can do better than that,” Quest said, pointing the camera toward the London Eye, a large ferris wheel in London, “look at that, right up the River Thames, the London Eye!”
Stewart was stunned.
“Camerota asked you a real question and you point to a fuckin’ ferris wheel!” Stewart said. “That’s what a six-year-old does!”
Watch the clip, courtesy of Comedy Central:
