Happy Birthday: Jon Stewart

Jon Stewart

Born: November 28, 1962 in New York City, New York, USA

Married to:
Tracy McShane (November 2000 – present) (2 children)

[Why he doesn’t miss The Daily Show after two months] Because I feel like I completed it. It’s when you feel like you completed a project to the best of your ability. When you’ve done the best that you think you’re able to do, so I have no regrets. All I can do now is be happy that I had that opportunity, the joy in creating it, growing it, evolving it and maintaining it.

[on political redundancy and rhetoric] every candidate says something along these lines,”vote for me, I know where you’re coming from, I’m just like each and every one of you, here’s an idea, don’t be me, be better than me, be better than me so you can keep me safe at night, be better than me so you provide me health care, be better than me so you can stop terrorism from trying to kill me”

[on hypocrisy in America]There is now this idea that anyone who voted for him has to be defined by the worst of his rhetoric, like, there are guys in my neighborhood that I love, that I respect, that I think have incredible qualities who are not afraid of Mexicans, and not afraid of Muslims, and not afraid of blacks. They’re afraid of their insurance premiums. In the liberal community, you hate this idea of creating people as a monolith. Don’t look at Muslims as a monolith. They are individuals, and it would be ignorance. But everybody who voted for Trump is a monolith, is a racist. That hypocrisy is also real in our country.

[on Donald Trump] he isn’t even a Republican: He’s a repudiation of Republicans.

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