Jon Stewart was again on The Each day Present this week to kick off Pleasure Month.
The Emmy Award winner ripped into the hypocritical nature of rainbow capitalism on Monday’s episode, however not earlier than he paid tribute to Pat Sajak following his ultimate Wheel of Fortune episode.
“I’d be remiss if I didn’t touch upon the large information in broadcasting,” he stated on the present’s opening. “Pat Sajak stepped down from Wheel of Fortune after 41 years, it was extremely emotional. And I simply need to say to Pat Sajak… have you considered simply doing Mondays? Since you might telephone that f***er in.”
Sajak’s ultimate episode as host of the Wheel of Fortune aired Friday after he first stepped into the position in 1983. Ryan Seacrest was introduced as his successor shortly after the information of Sajak’s retirement broke final 12 months.
Stewart then tackled the complicated panorama of company Pleasure as corporations started rolling out their rainbow-themed merchandise.
The comic pointed to gimmicks like Burger King’s burger with “two backside buns” and Skittles’ colorless sweet in order to not have “competing rainbows,” in addition to an Oreo advert that takes viewers on a weird rollercoaster.
He additionally known as out Goal for scaling again its Pleasure choice over the right-wing backlash, in addition to Bud Mild’s controversy round trans influencer Dylan Mulvaney.
“Why are we permitting ourselves to get labored up over whether or not big multinational companies are pro-gay or have conventional American values?” he reasoned. “As a result of companies have however one worth: shareholder worth. That’s all they’ve!”
Stewart added later within the phase, “Let’s cease pretending {that a} company may even be woke, or unwoke, or patriotic, or unpatriotic. Let’s simply let companies stay their reality… because the profit-seeking Patrick Bateman psychopaths they’re. On the very least, we would lastly get some honesty from them as nicely.”
