“If you smell something, say something”: With a final, inspirational sermon, Jon Stewart bids a fitting farewell to “The Daily Show”
Jon Stewart is less a comedian and more a preacher-man. Hear me out; for his (and our) liberal base, even a metaphor approaching organized religion is hard to stomach. But politics is, for better or worse, a belief system, and we have needed, in the past 16 years, someone who could prompt us to continue to have faith. In his final episode as the anchor of “The Daily Show,” Jon Stewart told some jokes, yes. But mostly, he let his talented correspondents tell them, as he played the perpetual straight man. He laughed, he cried, he spoke from the heart. And at the end, instead of offering us our moment of Zen, he offered us his moment of Zen—Bruce Springsteen, as it turns out, singing “The Land Of Hopes And Dreams” and "Born to Run," backed by the E Street Band.
