Jon Stewart Dared To Make Fun Of Joe Biden During 'Daily Show' Return

We questioned how Jon Stewart would fare in his return to The Daily Show. Stewart, though an ardent leftist comedian, regularly jabbed both sides of the aisle when he hosted the show from 1999 to 2015.

But viewers no longer seek objectivity. Nor do sponsors. They seek affirmation in the form of left-wing propaganda. 

To Stewart's credit, he didn't concern himself with the biases of his viewers and sponsors during his return Monday. Rather, he spent much of the show deriding Joe Biden's age following a special counsel report that found the president to be in a declining mental state.

Stewart humored the audience with the fact that Biden fails to remember "basic things." He also included Donald Trump in his bit:

"These two candidates, they are both similarly challenged, and it is not crazy to think that the oldest people in the history of the country to ever run for president might have some of these challenges," Stewart said of Biden and Trump, both of whom have faced criticism for increasing public gaffes.

Not bad.

Good on Stewart for making fun of Trump and Biden.

The Daily Show is a political satire program at its core. Both Republicans and Democrats provide plenty of fodder for political satire. Perhaps more so than any era before. 

Yet so few pundits have the courage to poke fun at both sides – see Jimmy Kimmel, John Oliver, Trevor Noah, Stephen Colbert, etc. That's unfortunate. 

Hopefully, Stewart bucks that trend.

Of course, his decision to include Biden in his jokes did not sit well with the usual suspects in the media. Like Keith Olbermann.

"If you're wondering how Jon Stewart's bullshit bothsidesist return went over..." Olbermann posted on X. "The antisemite racist conspiracy nuts LOVED it."

Far-left grafter Aaron Rupar also criticized Stewart for daring to satirize the Democrat party:

"Jon Stewart still has it in terms of being funny and entertaining but the political content of this monologue is basically the New York Times op-ed page in TV form. Both sides are not in fact equally bad," posted Rupar.

What a loser.

No prominent figure should be off limits to comedy, specifically presidents and presidential candidates. Those advocating otherwise are advocating for a governing body of jokes and speech. 

They are the thought police of whom the book 1984 warned.

We hope Stewart doesn't cave. His influence, during an election year, can be as profound as during his first run as host of The Daily Show.