The Mark Twain Prize ceremony provided an opportunity for Jon Stewart's friends and former colleagues to lovingly roast him. chaneyj reports
Stewart at the Kennedy Center. Photo: Scott Suchman for WETA Jon Stewart has not been getting great press lately.
“I can’t tell you how amazing it is to be here honoring Jon Stewart in front of the largest audience he’s had in years,” said Pete Davidson, later adding, “Jon is loyal. Friendship isn’t something he half-asses, like acting. Or gives up on quickly, like directing.” Colbert, who was diagnosed with COVID-19 last week and appeared via video, managed to be both moving and dismissive at the same time while recalling a particularly successful Daily Show episode during the 2000 presidential election cycle. “As we went into the last commercial break — and I don’t know if you remember this Jon, but this is true — under the applause, I said to you what was in my heart, what I knew to be true. I said that this is the best job on television,” Colbert recalled.
Stewart was clearly selected for the Mark Twain Prize in this particularly fraught year, when both the lingering impact of the pandemic and the current tensions in Ukraine loom large, because his career has involved making jokes at politicians’ expense while pushing for real political change.
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