Jon Stewart has begrudgingly brought back The Daily Show‘s over “20-year recurring segment” titled “Mess O’Potamia,” also known as “America’s Next Top Muddle,” to comment on the over-the-weekend U.S.-Israeli-coordinated missile strikes against Iran, which killed its supreme leader Ali Khamenei.
“America, apparently, had to start an entire war to kill an 86-year-old man in ill health and not wait — I don’t know — three weeks to let saturated fat do its thing,” the political comic quipped.
In the immediate aftermath, the SWANA nation has opted to bomb U.S. military bases in nations like Bahrain, Iraq and the United Arab Emirates.
“America and Israel attack Iran. And Iran’s answer is to just fucking attack everybody,” Stewart commented. “You know, having been in a bar fight or two in my life, I’m pretty sure the worst thing you can do during a two-on-one beatdown is slap everyone else.”
During the program, correspondent Jordan Klepper appeared “not in Iran, but close enough to kind of look like I am if you squint [Istanbul, Turkey]” to stoke false enthusiasm for the conflict: “Feels so good to be back at war! Those four weeks since Venezuela were so boring. Oh, man, things were so dull, we had to pretend to care about hockey. Dark stuff.”
Klepper added of President Donald Trump‘s apparent lack of a plan, “Yeah, you can [wing a war]. Just sort of come up with it on the spot like jazz: Skibbidi bop bop, drone strike; shibidi wop wop, tomahawk missile; salt peanuts, salt peanuts, inevitable sectarian violence — jazz hands.”
Stewart summed it up with: “I can’t believe it. Our bombs are now smarter than our president.”
He concluded, “How quickly the right has gone from peace through strength to peace through war. And we’re all just along for the ride, in a war with no clear purpose, no end in sight. It’s all just at the whims of Donald Trump.”
