Andrew Schulz and Akaash Singh react to Jon Stewart's exclusive Patreon bit where he "flagrantly" embarrasses Stephen Colbert regarding the coronavirus lab leak theory. Stewart leverages his credibility to joke about the Wuhan Institute of Virology, presenting the conspiracy as a gut feeling rather than nuanced logic, effectively bypassing typical misinformation accusations. The hosts praise this uncensored approach for resonating with diverse audiences by calling out both left and right-wing ideologies without partisan pandering, suggesting Stewart's enduring appeal lies in his willingness to be fanatical about his feelings while maintaining comedic authenticity that other comedians lack. [Automatically generated summary]
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Exclusive Uncensored Patreon Clip00:04:14
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Let's talk about someone who's always been the goat of the uh I don't even want to talk about late night talk show because it wasn't that, but like the GOAT political commentary comedian legit like I think changed like political comedy.
He changed comedy, changed comedy in general, kind of for the worse, even though he's so great.
Yeah, because the he people weren't as good as him, yeah.
So the only way they could get that reaction is if they started pandering, yeah, but he was so good that he could say how he felt in a way where at times both sides would really enjoy it.
Also, the way he felt was just better, huh?
The way he felt was better, yeah.
More moderate guy.
This is a very pretty not liberal take for this.
This is a conspiracy theorist.
Hey, yes.
Three months ago, he's a conspiracy theorist.
Yeah, he is QAnon three months ago if he says this.
He is Donald Trump three months ago if he says this.
Jon Stewart is on Stephen Colbert.
Stephen Cook Bear.
Yeah, Stephen Cook Bear's late night show.
And Stephen Colbert, who was on his way to GOAT status when he was in his heyday with the Colbert show and completely sold out to be a corporate chill.
One note guy now is just has Trump as bad.
And now without Trump being there, I don't even know what he talks about.
I know he hasn't still apparently number one.
Yeah, but like number one of the shows that nobody watches.
You know what I mean?
Yeah.
It's quite easy to be.
So here's the thing.
This guy goes on.
He's on the show.
He knows Colbert's opinions.
Yeah.
He knows the channel's opinions.
Right.
And he goes out there and he drops this plate.
Science has in many ways helped ease the suffering of this pandemic, which was more than likely caused by science.
Colbert's like, huh?
What do I do?
Hold on.
And that's kind of...
Oh, okay.
No, no, It's coffee.
I wouldn't do that.
I'll do that to you.
What do you take, Steve?
What do you mean by that?
Do you mean like perhaps there's a chance that this was created in a lab as an investigation?
A chance.
Oh, you fucking pussy.
Oh, my God.
Evidence, I'd love to hear that.
There's a novel respiratory coronavirus overtaking Wuhan, China.
What do we do?
Oh, you know who we could ask?
The Wuhan novel respiratory coronavirus lab.
The disease is the same name as the lab.
That's just a little too weird.
Don't you think?
And then I asked the scientists, they're like, how did this...
So wait a minute.
You work at the Wuhan Respiratory Coronavirus Lab.
How did this happen?
And they're like, ooh, a penguin kissed a turtle.
And you're like, no, the name of your lab.
I mean, look at the name.
Look at the name.
Can I, let me see your business card.
Show me your business card.
Oh, I worked at the coronavirus lab in Wuhan.
Oh, because there's a coronavirus loose in Wuhan.
How did that happen?
Maybe a bat flew into the cloaca of a turkey and then it sneezed into my chili and now we all have coronavirus.
Like, come on, people.
Okay, wait, okay.
What about this?
What about this?
Wait a second.
All right, John.
Oh, my God.
Oh, my God.
There's been an outbreak of chocolatey goodness near Hershey, Pennsylvania.
What do you think happened?
Like, oh, I don't know.
Maybe a steam shovel made it with a cocoa bean.
Or it's the chocolate factory.
Maybe accident.
Go.
Fucking hero, dog.
Fucking hero.
John Colbert Prior Relationship00:04:08
And he's not just the goat for having this opinion, which is absolutely great, and saying it in a way which is so digestible.
Yeah.
He's the goat for doing it on that platform.
Yeah.
He knew exactly what the fuck he was doing.
He knew exactly the type of opinions that are spewed on Colbert's show.
And he went on there and he specifically did it and it goes fucking viral.
And it's exactly how we all feel.
And it's just fucking great.
Yeah.
The other thing that I wonder is that I bet him and Colbert have a prior relationship.
They did.
Yeah.
Like they put Colbert on.
They're boys for mad long.
Yeah, he gave Colbert.
He gave Colbert his career.
He also knows Colbert as like probably just as a comic.
Like, yo, if the cameras aren't on, like, we'd be busting balls about this.
Like, you and me have been.
Colbert's not a comic.
He's an improv guy.
But I bet you, if he's behind closed doors, like, they're making mad jokes.
They're willing to like joke about this kind of shit.
And then he goes on his show to his face.
And Colbert's like, are you really doing this?
Yes.
Are you doing the thing that we would do off camera on my show right now?
Yes.
And I think that is where he catches him.
That's what's so great about it.
It's like, I don't think Colbert is like a complete cuck.
I think that he's a comic and like it likes to make jokes, but when the camera's on, he buttons up because he wants to still be accepted by like the corporate machine.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Like, I bet Jimmy Kimmel's an amazing hang.
Oh, yeah.
How do we know?
He's going to give him pasta dinners and shit like that.
He's going to be busting balls, telling great stories, doing fucking pretty good.
He's the guy showing people.
He's the guy show.
He's hilarious.
But you get paid a certain amount of money and you bend over.
Right.
And who's to say?
Like, it's easy for us to say right here with no offers of $100 million, then we're not going to bend over.
But then when that $100 million is in front of him, you're like, oh, my God.
The floor looks pretty good when you're closer to it.
That is pretty awesome.
Look how amazing this fucking floor is.
Let me grab my ankles.
Wow.
My hands fit perfectly around my ankles.
Look at how crazy this is.
What was it this, right?
But the fact that I agree with you right there, he started having that person-to-person conversation with him.
But what's interesting about John is John knows the game.
John has been in the game for a while.
He knows the motherfuckers that are fake on air and real off-air.
And he had a real off-air conversation with a motherfucker that is currently fake on air.
And I love that he did it.
He threw his boy under the bus.
He really threw his boy under the bus.
I don't think he threw him under the bus.
I think he gives him the warning that he's going to do this.
And he knows that Steven has to act like, hey, don't do this.
You can't do this.
Like, this is not okay for the network.
Interesting.
So it's like now, Steve, he's good.
He can't get in trouble because he's acting surprised as if he didn't know he was going to.
But I don't think you would do this to your boy.
The only pushback I would give you is it looks like Colbert's trying to cut him off at points.
And he raised his voice, talks over him, and goes, listen, listen, listen, listen.
So, and maybe that's just Colbert not knowing that John's in the middle of a bit and you just got to fucking go along for the ride.
But it does look like he's trying to at least interrupt.
Maybe not stop it, but interrupt.
So I don't know if they had prior conversation, but maybe John says something like, Yo, I'm going to go for it.
Just right.
I think that's what happened.
Exactly.
And the other amazing part is that the audience is all Colbert's audience, like both on YouTube, but also live in the studio.
Yeah.
And he's getting applause breaks from Colbert's audience, who I imagine to be like, you know, pretty buttoned up in PC.
Yes, but those people also love John.
Like, if you're part of the woke, like, if you're part of the woke brigade, you probably, John is like grandfathered in.
He's like godfather.
Yeah, it's like, it's almost like, you know, like, Don Rickles could say whatever he wants and it's okay, right?
It's like, maybe John wasn't as woke as the woke people are now, but you look at him and go, yo, man, he started it.
He started having these conversations, right?
Even though he did not start wokeness, but he was maybe the first person that they saw on a nightly show that was saying some of the opinions that they now share that have kind of evolved into something crazy.
I'm just saying, I think that these people still got love for John.
And he's kind of unimpeachable.
He was calling out Fox News before motherfuckers were even doing it, right?
So they have some mutuality.
And he is kind of unimpeachable in that, like, we don't see a lot of fraudulence with him.
Like, we, I remember when he walked away from the daily show saying he was like, I would love to finally spend some time with my family.
That would be nice.
That's the most bullshit thing for most people.
They go take a break for a year and then come back.
Jon Stewart has been gone for, what, seven years now?
He's coming back.
He's coming back now.
Eight years a long hiatus to take.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
But he still got it, though.
He's still got it, dude.
He's like.
Jon Stewart Returns After Hiatus00:08:02
I mean, think about it.
It's just the beauty of comedy is sometimes you just need to be like, you just need to be right about how you feel.
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Like, who knows if this shit, I mean, obviously it came from the lab, right?
But let's say it didn't come from the lab.
The way he presented it is, you're an idiot if you don't believe this.
Yes.
Like, I love that.
Like, he didn't go, like, I'm going to be nuanced and logical and precise here.
He just goes, you're stupid if you don't believe it.
Look at that.
He had one fact.
Yeah.
He had one.
And we, I do, I know I was.
I think we were all saying from dumb early.
Yeah.
This got to be man-made.
It's got to be lab cooked.
We had no facts whatsoever.
He had one fact.
I don't even know if it's true.
We had the fact, but we just didn't touch on it.
I mean, it was right in front of our face.
The best jokes are right there.
The joke is right there.
There's a Wuhan lab about, there's a Wuhan coronavirus lab in Wuhan.
Sorry, there's a coronavirus lab in Wuhan.
I'm so unfortunate.
I didn't know it was called that.
I thought it was a lab in Wuhan.
But there's a lab in Wuhan.
Yeah, I thought it was working on other things.
But the fact that it's just working on coronaviruses, if that's the case, it was just working on coronaviruses.
I mean, it's unbelievable that you could not think this.
This would get you kicked off Facebook back in the day.
This would get you kicked off Twitter.
This would label a conspiracy theorist.
And he came out.
He was just like, there's a coronavirus lab in this one fucking town where the coronavirus is spreading crazy.
We're not going to knock on a door and at least ask them if this is where it came from.
Bat is the best we got.
And we're so fucking racist against Chinese people.
We're sitting around like, nah, they don't.
Yeah, probably bats.
Back to the back.
They wet market.
They got a wet market.
That's more likely than some shit would get out of the lab.
It's named after, yeah.
And it's named after this, the coronavirus lab, and coronavirus could get out.
But we're like, they ate anything.
And viruses could come from bats.
Where did it come from fucking bats?
I've never heard of one.
You know what I'm saying?
It's just fucking unbelievable.
I'm telling you, it's like the Chappelle thing where we just believe AIDS came from a monkey.
And then he was the one guy that is a comic was like, word, a monkey.
And everybody's like, yeah, that's a good ass point.
AIDS from a monkey?
Somebody's fucking monkeys and then humans.
What?
Yeah.
We just buy it.
We just like, yeah, no, it's true.
That's what people are telling us.
I wonder though, does this bit work because it's Jon Stewart?
This is, I was going to make a point.
Go ahead.
Like, like, if the bit is objectively so good, but because of the like topic and like the time and everything else, he's able to get away with it.
And I've even seen people on the internet that are like, oh, like, this is misinformation.
Like, I can't believe the Daily Show would let this happen or Colbert would let this happen.
But I still love Jon Stewart.
He gets away with it within a certain population that maybe gives pushback to any ideas that aren't consistent with their own because he's Jon Stewart.
But the general consensus about this bit is people are going to find it hilarious.
Right and left.
The extremes, the extreme right might fucking love it, but the extreme left might give some pushback.
This misinformation, why would he do this is dangerous?
But most right and left people are like, yo, it's probably a fucking leak.
The virus is probably man-made.
And I was going to say one thing to call out some conservatives.
I saw a lot of conservatives whining, like, we've been saying this forever and now Jon Stewart says it and you celebrate.
You should be so fucking grateful that a guy with the credibility from the left is saying it.
Now your shit means something because instead of just being a one-time, like a one-opinion guy, somebody who's nuanced and typically on the left-wing side of things, say, nah, man, this shit is man-made.
Now all the people who are moderate or are moderately left-leaning are like, yo, this shit might be man-made.
He's getting your message out there.
No other messenger could do it.
You need a guy like him to do it.
And it's so interesting.
It's like, if you just have balls and say how you feel, generally it works out.
Yeah.
If you feel it, the problem is just saying things to be absurd and ridiculous.
And when that backfires, you go, oh, just being absurd and ridiculous.
And then people go, well, you being absurd and ridiculous hurt people.
Right.
Right.
And then you go, oh, but if you actually believe something and someone gives you pushback, you're like, no, I still believe it.
Yeah.
You know, it's almost like if you're religious in how you feel, right?
There's really nothing people can do to take it away from you.
This is how you feel.
Yeah.
He feels, he feels strongly that the coronavirus came from a lab in Wuhan that specifies in, specify, specializes.
Specializes in coronavirus.
Yeah.
That's pretty easy to believe.
Yeah.
And when you lay it out there like that, what pushback are you going to give?
Well, the tie to religion, he's also not fanatical on one side or the other.
No, be fanatical about how you feel.
Fuck wherever your feelings lie, it doesn't matter.
But be fanatical about how you feel.
I do think if you're consistently fanatical on one side, people are like, yeah, he just always is about that.
No, it's more profitable.
And that's why they do it.
Even though you think that's not authentic.
Exactly, because you're not fanatical about how you feel.
I got you.
You're fanatical about what the side is.
And there are these people that have their shows, their late night shows.
And I think the reason why Trevor's version of that show doesn't work as well as John's is because he's just going, here are my points of view, and they are consistent with whatever the left believes.
And I'm going to feed them that.
And that does work.
And it works for Fox News.
Fox News is like, this is what the right believes.
I'm going to feed them that, right?
Tucker Carlson.
Tucker Carlson, same exact shit, right?
When you're willing to just talk about your gut, you're going to get way more criticism because every single time you speak, half the people, you're going to piss off.
But eventually, people believe you.
And when they believe you, they go, oh, he's not playing aside.
He's not trying to make me look stupid or make me feel like an idiot.
This is how he actually feels.
And deep down, if I'm being honest with myself, it's kind of how I feel.
It's very rare that people are woke in groups of three talking.
Yeah.
People get woke in groups of 300.
People get woke when there's an audience.
People get woke when there's a fight during the lunch period.
That's funny.
You know what I'm saying?
I wonder what the function of that is.
As group size increases, wokeness goes up or extremism goes up and whatever your political beliefs are.
But in groups of three people, five people, even the most woke motherfucker in the world, nobody's going, oh, I feel uncomfortable with you saying that.
They're just laughing at jokes.
Now, what if, like, because this got so much praise all over the internet?
Yeah.
What if you were like a right-wing comedian?
Like, what if you were like, even like, not even necessarily a comedian, but like Tucker Carlson or like Steven Crowder?
If they, like, they're more conservative.
If they do this exact same riff, like word for word on their show and it gets shared around, do, does, like, liberal Twitter or like any lefties anywhere, do they like it or do they just.
And I think it's a lot of people to his point about him, like just calling out both sides and having equity built in, and to his point about he believes what he says.
Tucker Carlson is just trying to make money.
A lot of these right-wing people, just you're just trying to make money.
You're always on one side of it.
Oh, here you are being on this side of it again.
Jon Stewart has been fanatical in what he believes.
I will call out the right.
I will call out the left sometimes too, if I don't agree with them.
I tend to agree with them more, but I'll call them out when I don't.
I'll call it Obama here and there.
So for that guy to call out something that's kind of left wing when he's left leaning, you're like, oh Shit, this means