Jon Stewart tells Stephen Colbert what he really thinks about The Late Show ending

If there’s one thing you can guarantee with Jon Stewart, it’s that he’s not going to hold back. He made his feelings about The Late Show being cancelled clear when the news broke last year, and — appearing on the third to last ever episode in the clip above — he makes them even clearer to host Stephen Colbert.

“What upsets me about this situation is that first of all, you’re just a tremendous human and one of my favorite people,” Stewart tells Colbert. “Second of all, I’ve seen your talents from Exit 57 to writing, to…he can do whatever he wants to do, but the ubiquitous bloviating of the commander-in-chief has put us all as defined as who we are in opposition to him, and it’s just a ridiculous framing. It’s a minute portion of the joy machine that you call your show. And it’s annoying.

“Let me say this, and I mean this from the bottom of my heart, not just for this show but for the country: The day, oh people, close your eyes and dream, the day that the electorate in this great nation that we call home repudiates this putrid administration…the day that that happens, my brother, there will be, and I mean this, the day that that happens there will be a joyful noise from the bowels of this great country that will make Hungary’s repudiation of Orbán look like an Amish sabbath.”

The conversation ends on a lighter note, with Colbert and Stewart finishing their interview in some comfy vibrating armchairs before being serenaded by singer Andra Day.

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