As soon as once more, Jon Stewart had a “super present deliberate for you — well-designed, articulate,” however the tidal wave of present occasions wouldn’t let that slide.
It was “a very illuminating dive into the neglected function of the commodities markets in commerce deficit accounting,” the host started on tonight’s episode of The Each day Present. “It was going to be so humorous. However sadly on the final minute we needed to scrap all that as a result of Elmo … misplaced his f—ing thoughts.”
Stewart was referring to the hacking of Elmo’s X account by an unknown entity on Sunday, with Sesame Workshop confirming this morning that the compromised account had now been “secured.” Earlier than elimination, the tweets espoused racist and antisemitic views, and likewise referred to as for the discharge of the Jeffrey Epstein information by president Donald Trump, whom the account deemed a “baby f—er.”
“As somebody who has labored with Elmo … as everyone undoubtedly remembers,” Stewart maintained the tweets have been “surprising” to him, earlier than continuing to spoof Sesame Road along with his personal Elmo sock puppet. In mimicking the Muppet, Stewart appeared in a split-screen on-line, although in-person audiences might see he was puppeteering off to the aspect; in moments, the host was unintentionally caught doing the voice on digicam and struggled to suppress his laughter on the really hilarious bit.
At first, Elmo hopped into the section enthusiastically, prepared to speak about “rainbows,” earlier than Stewart prompted him to show to the actual topic of the day: “The Jews,” mentioned a remorseful Elmo.
Protecting his face from guilt, the puppet maintained, “They hacked Elmo! They guessed Elmo’s password was Elmo! Elmo123. Elmo is aware of passwords ought to have extra numbers, however Elmo solely is aware of three numbers.”
When Stewart pressed additional, demanding accountability, Elmo’s revelation shocked viewers members: “It’s true, Elmo wasn’t hacked. It was Elmo. However Elmo was radicalized by the manosphere. Elmo is a part of the male loneliness epidemic. You-you-you see, what occurred was, Elmo was doing his personal analysis on flu pictures. Six hours later, due to the algorithm, Elmo was moderating the QAnon Discord chat and constructing do-it-yourself bombs.”
And when the host hit a ache level in asking Elmo to say additional accountability for his actions as a task mannequin for youths, the red-haired character exploded: “Are you canceling Elmo?! As soon as once more, the so-called tolerant left policing speech that’s inconvenient to their woke dogma. Who’s the actual puppet now, Jon?! You! You’re the actual puppet.”
Stewart, in fact, was left speechless, alleging Elmo was spewing “alt-right speaking level phrase salad.”
“Yeah, you mentioned it, not Elmo. Elmo’s alt-right. No cause to cancel Elmo’s funding then,” the puppet mentioned despondently, revealing one more surprising reality — that he’s pandering to the GOP to maintain funding for PBS Youngsters after the Trump administration terminated training grants again in Might.
He continued, “Elmo can’t return on the streets, Jon! You don’t have any thought what it’s like. Elmo’s too fairly to reside beneath a bridge, Jon. It’s a life dropped at you by the letter sucking d—, OK? Elmo received’t! Elmo received’t return. Elmo can’t return. No!”
After the section, Stewart dived into the current right-wing ire at Trump’s waffling on the discharge of the Epstein information, which was initially among the many basic factors of his platform. Earlier than signing off, Elmo reappeared as soon as extra to declare: “Viva la revolución! Antifa perpetually,” including that listening to Stewart’s “trenchant evaluation of the numerous hypocrisies of the suitable have re-radicalized Elmo to the populist left. Free Luigi [Mangione]!”
