Jon Stewart seemed to blow the mind of Stephen Colbert on Monday night as he mocked those who won’t even *consider* the idea that the coronavirus leaked out of a lab in Wuhan in China. It all started when a deeply sarcastic Stewart joked, “Science has, in many ways, helped ease the suffering of this pandemic which was more than likely caused by science.”
Showing just how clueless to what’s been going on for the last year (and especially in the last month), The Late Show host wondered, “If there’s some evidence, I’d love to hear.”
The former Daily Show host ranted at Colbert’s ignorance:
There's a novel respiratory coronavirus overtaking Wuhan, China! What do we do? Oh, you know who we could ask? The Wuhan Novel Respiratory Coronavirus lab. The disease is the same name as the lab. That's just -- that's just a little too weird, don't you think? And then the actual scientists are, like, how did this – “So, wait a minute, you work at the Wuhan respiratory coronavirus lab, how did this happen? They're like, “Oooh, a pangolin kissed a turtle?” No! The name of the lab! Look at the name! Let me see your business card! Show me your business card! “Oh, I work at the coronavirus lab in Wuhan!” “Oh! Because there's a coronavirus loose in Wuhan. How did that happen?” Maybe a bat flew into the throat a turkey and sneezed into my chili and now we all have coronavirus.”
Offering a colorful analogy, Stewart brought up Hershey, Pennsylvania:
Oh, my God! Oh my God! There's been an outbreak of chocolate-y goodness near Hershey, Pennsylvania, what do you think happened? I don't know, maybe a steam shovel made it with a cocoa bean, or maybe it's the [bleeped] chocolate factory!
Showing that his fellow liberal had gone too far, Colbert compared his friend to Republican Senator Ron Johnson:
STEPHEN COLBERT: And how long have you worked for Senator Ron Johnson?
JON STEWART: Let me tell you something, this is not a conspiracy.
COLBERT: You could be right.
STEWART: Science is incredible, but they don’t know when to stop and nobody in the room with those cats says, “Hey, I don’t know if we should do that.”
Colbert is the same non-comedian who basically endorsed the “decent” and “honest” Joe Biden and bowed before “your excellency” Andrew Cuomo. The fact that he’s this late to the party when it comes to questioning the origin of Covid isn’t surprising. Thankfully, Jon Stewart was there on Monday to wake him up.
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The Late Show With Stephen Colbert
6/14/2021
12:08 AM ET
JON STEWART: I think we owe a great debt of gratitude to science. Science has, in many ways, helped ease the suffering of this pandemic which was more than likely caused by science. And that's kind of -- no, no, no, no. Listen.
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STEPHEN COLBERT: What do you mean? Do you mean perhaps there's a chance that this was created in a lab, there's an investigation --
STEWART: A chance? Oh, my God!
COLBERT: If there's evidence, I'd love to hear.
STEWART: There's a novel respiratory coronavirus overtaking Wuhan, China. What do we do? Oh, you know who we could ask? The Wuhan Novel Respiratory Coronavirus lab. The disease is the same name as the lab. That's just -- that's just a little too weird, don't you think? And then the actual scientists are, like, how did this – “So, wait a minute, you work at the Wuhan respiratory coronavirus lab, how did this happen? They're like, “Oooh, a penguin kissed a turtle?” No! The name of the lab! Look at the name! Let me see your business card! Show me your business card! “Oh, I work at the coronavirus lab in Wuhan!” “Oh! Because there's a coronavirus loose in Wuhan. How did that happen?”” Maybe a bat flew into the throat a turkey and sneezed into my chili and now we all have coronavirus.”
COLBERT: : Wait a second, Jon!
STEWART: Oh, my God! Oh my God! There's been an outbreak of chocolate-y goodness near Hershey, Pennsylvania, what do you think happened? “I don't know, maybe a steam shovel made it with a cocoa bean, or maybe it's the [bleep ] chocolate factory!”
COLBERT: That could very well be. And Anthony Fauci and Francis Collins and NIH said it should definitely be investigated.
STEWART: Stop with the logic and people and things.
COLBERT: Wait a second. It could be possible, you could be right. It could be possible that they have the lab in Wuhan to study the novel coronavirus diseases because in Wuhan there are a lot of coronavirus diseases because to have the bat population there.
STEWART: It's a local specialty and the only place to find bats. You won't find bats anywhere else. Oh, wait! Austin Texas, have thousands of them that fly out of a cave every night, every night at dusk! Is there a coronavirus in au Austin, an Austin coronavirus? No, doesn't seem to be an Austin coronavirus. The only coronavirus is in Wuhan where they have a lab called -- what's the lab called again, Stephen?
COLBERT: The Wuhan Novel Respiratory Coronavirus lab. And how long have you worked for Senator Ron Johnson?
STEWART: Let me tell you something, this is not a conspiracy.
COLBERT: You could be right.
STEWART: Science is incredible, but they don’t know when to stop and nobody in the room with those cats says, “Hey, I don’t know if we should do that.”
