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SUMMARY: Called the nation's "satirist in chief," Jon Stewart’s comedic rants and skewering of the daily news have had far-reaching influence on media and politics. Now he's leaving "The Daily Show" after 16 years. Jeffrey Brown looks back at Stewart’s impact.
GWEN IFILL (NewsHour): One last zinger, one last laugh, one last bow. Jon Stewart takes his leave of “The Daily Show” tonight.
Jeffrey Brown has our look.
JON STEWART, Host, The Daily Show With Jon Stewart: Whose team are we on in the Middle East?
(LAUGHTER)
JEFFREY BROWN (NewsHour): Jon Stewart has been called the nation’s satirist in chief, and recently he went at it, once again, with the commander in chief.
JON STEWART: We’re fighting with Iraqis to defeat ISIS, along with Iran, but, in Yemen, we’re fighting Iran with Iraqis and Saudis.
(LAUGHTER)
PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: That’s not quite right, but that’s OK.
(LAUGHTER)
PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: But, look…
JON STEWART: Whose team are…
PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: Look, here’s…
JON STEWART: Who are we bombing?
JEFFREY BROWN: It was President Obama’s seventh appearance on Stewart’s “Daily Show,” and his last.
PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: I’m issuing a new executive order that Jon Stewart cannot leave the show.
(CHEERING AND APPLAUSE)
JEFFREY BROWN: But Stewart is leaving, after 16 years of a kind of faux newscast that took daily events and gave them a comedic, often pointed twist.
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