Jon Stewart Shares Aftermath of His ‘Daily Show’ Hand Injury
Jon Stewart got so riled up during a tirade about Elon Musk and Donald Trump on Monday that he sliced his hand open smashing a mug. Although The Daily Show host managed to continue his monologue after the incident, he quipped, “I’ll be going to the hospital soon.”
Now, Stewart has revealed the aftermath of the injury in a new video titled “After the Cut.” The short clip showcased several late-night show staffers coming to his rescue, cleaning up the broken mug as Stewart held up a bandaged hand. “You know, it’s important to remember who the real heroes are,” the host said.
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He added of the moment, “My favorite thing out of all that ‘Indy 500 pit stop, trying to keep the car on the road’ [thing] was, and I’m not even sure who said it, but they just go, ‘You want some duct tape on that, old electrician’s trick?’ I’m like, ‘Sure.'”
Stewart then reminded the audience that this is not his first on-set injury. “It was a margarita blender with me and [John] Oliver, and I hit it down and just drew blood, and Oliver couldn’t have been happier,” Stewart recounted in the video. “I’d never seen anything like it. He sat there gleefully watching. And that was more of an artery that was just spurting everywhere, and at one point he yells at me, ‘It’s just a flesh wound, stop making such a big deal of it!'”
The host then played the old clip of the margarita incident, which showed Stewart cutting himself and then saying, “I’m probably going to need to go to the hospital.”
During Monday night’s episode, Stewart got heated while discussing DOGE’s government cuts, which have led to the systemic firing of tens of thousands of federal workers across nearly a dozen agencies with little regard for their livelihoods, service, or value to the public.
“We live in the upside down,” Stewart said of Musk and Trump during his monologue. “They are profit-seeking psychopaths that need the lowest wages and the cheapest raw materials to drive their highest profits. But why do we, the taxpayers, subsidize their psychopathy? That’s the waste, fraud, and abuse in our system.”
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