As soon as once more, Jon Stewart had a “great 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 missed function of the commodities markets in commerce deficit accounting,” the host started on tonight’s episode of The Every 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 known as for the discharge of the Jeffrey Epstein recordsdata 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 by chance caught doing the voice on digital camera and struggled to suppress his laughter on the actually 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 selfmade bombs.”
And when the host hit a ache level in asking Elmo to say additional duty 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, after all, was left speechless, alleging Elmo was spewing “alt-right speaking level phrase salad.”
“Yeah, you mentioned it, not Elmo. Elmo’s alt-right. No motive to cancel Elmo’s funding then,” the puppet mentioned despondently, revealing yet one more surprising fact — that he’s pandering to the GOP to maintain funding for PBS Children after the Trump administration terminated schooling grants again in Might.
He continued, “Elmo can’t return on the streets, Jon! You don’t have any concept what it’s like. Elmo’s too fairly to stay underneath a bridge, Jon. It’s a life dropped at you by the letter sucking d—, OK? Elmo gained’t! Elmo gained’t return. Elmo can’t return. No!”
After the section, Stewart dived into the latest right-wing ire at Trump’s waffling on the discharge of the Epstein recordsdata, which was initially among the many elementary factors of his platform. Earlier than signing off, Elmo reappeared as soon as extra to declare: “Viva la revolución! Antifa eternally,” including that listening to Stewart’s “trenchant evaluation of the numerous hypocrisies of the appropriate have re-radicalized Elmo to the populist left. Free Luigi [Mangione]!”
