Jon Stewart Reacts to Colbert's Cancellation & Trump's 'Bawdy' Epstein Doodles | The Daily Show

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In this segment of The Daily Show, Jon Stewart takes the host seat and opens with the unexpected news: the temporary cancellation of Stephen Colbert's Late Show. He turns it into a theatrical drama, comparing the loss of a week of talk show to the end of civilization, while ironically highlighting the excess pathos of American media. As a good friend, Stewart makes multiple nods to the long history he shares with Colbert and reminds viewers of the central role Colbert plays in the late-night show ecosystem, before ridiculing the industrial logic that treats hosts as interchangeable parts.

The comedian then shifts to a far more scandalous topic: the judicial revelations surrounding Jeffrey Epstein, and, notably, the infamous 'bawdy' annotations and drawings found in documents that mention Donald Trump's name. Stewart displays several of these lewd sketches on screen, analyzes the 'high school notebook' style, and mocks the former American president for his base humor and past proximity to the deceased financier. He emphasizes how these doodles feed the image of a Trump incapable of seriousness, even in notebooks related to sexual abuse affairs.

In the third part, Stewart broadens the perspective by recalling the array of legal proceedings already surrounding Trump, from contested elections to financial improprieties. He points out that these new pieces of evidence related to Epstein reinforce the discomfort surrounding the elites, illustrating the former president's 'self-promotional obsession' and his tendency to reduce everything to spectacle, even the darkest themes.

To conclude, the host praises the resilience of late-night shows in the face of successive crises—pandemics, strikes, health issues—and pokes fun at the anxiety artificially inflated by the media system. He invites the audience to put into perspective the temporary absence of Stephen Colbert, while promising that the daily political satire, embodied here by The Daily Show, will continue to dissect the unintentional comedy of American public life, from unexpected cancellations to Donald Trump's obscene drawings

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