Jon Stewart has cautioned Americans against mistakenly treating US Representative George Santos in the same way they did former US President Donald Trump.
The newly elected congressman from New York’s Long Island has been at the centre of recent controversy for telling several lies, with many home state Republicans and Democrats calling for his resignation.
“Everything about him just screams of mediocrity,” Stewart said of Santos on the latest episode of his podcast, The Problem with Jon Stewart.
Trying to understand why “nobody really cares” about Santos’s mounting scandals, the former Daily Show host reasoned: “He’s not obese, he’s not skinny, he’s everything in the middle.”
Stewart compared the disgraced Santos to a “fresh meat” inmate who can’t decide between joining the “Aryan gang” or the “Spanish gang”.
He and his co-hosts and writers Henrik Blix and Maria Randazzo continued making jokes about Santos,...
The newly elected congressman from New York’s Long Island has been at the centre of recent controversy for telling several lies, with many home state Republicans and Democrats calling for his resignation.
“Everything about him just screams of mediocrity,” Stewart said of Santos on the latest episode of his podcast, The Problem with Jon Stewart.
Trying to understand why “nobody really cares” about Santos’s mounting scandals, the former Daily Show host reasoned: “He’s not obese, he’s not skinny, he’s everything in the middle.”
Stewart compared the disgraced Santos to a “fresh meat” inmate who can’t decide between joining the “Aryan gang” or the “Spanish gang”.
He and his co-hosts and writers Henrik Blix and Maria Randazzo continued making jokes about Santos,...
- 1/18/2023
- by Inga Parkel
- The Independent - TV
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