Stewart Injures Himself in Daily Show DOGE Segment

In a post on X Monday, Jon Stewart said his Daily Show episode this week is a bloody good episode…emphasis on bloody…I'm an idiot." During the episode, he cut his hand while smashing a mug during a segment on Elon Musk's DOGE. "I will be going to the hospital soon," said Stewart, who kept the hand under his desk for the next few minutes. He later showed viewers his bloodied hand, saying, "It's fine," the Los Angeles Times reports.

• Stewart complained about how DOGE had ignored federally funded pharmaceutical subsidies, Variety reports. He played a clip of Joe Biden speaking about negotiations to lower the price of 10 drugs. "The companies we subsidize with billions of dollars are allowing us the privilege to negotiate the price of 10 of their drugs," he said, sarcastically. "And 10 is all of them, right? It would be embarrassing if it was a small drop in the bucket, and that the American people didn't expect that we should negotiate for all their f------ drugs, because we have already paid for them with our subsidies!" He smashed the mug after declaring, "It is f------ insane!"
• The mug—which said "World's Most Dad" in what the Los Angeles Times describes as a jab at Musk—was part of Stewart's "wannabe accountant starter kit" for the segment.
• Earlier in the segment, Stewart said DOGE could save trillions by targeting hedge fund tax breaks or subsidies to oil and gas companies instead of the jobs of federal employees. "Or how about we stop the $2 trillion dollars we've given to defense contractors to build a fighter jet that blows, when everyone knows the next war is going to be fought with drones and blockchains, whatever that is," he said, per Variety.
• Stewart said he wants DOGE to work and he wants greater efficiency. But "the greatest restriction on freedom in this country isn't DEI and pronoun pressure, it's f------ poverty and struggle," he said. "And the government's role should be to end the corruption that enables that exploitation."

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