Jon Stewart did a segment about a topic Tuesday night, during which the audience made a lot of “ooh” noises at some junctures and laughed at other ones, and the host made a series of dramatic pauses and sarcastic remarks for comedic effect.
The topic in question was the Senate Intelligence Committee majority staff’s report on the CIA’s use of “enhanced interrogation techniques” to elicit information from terrorist detainees. The document provided explicit details about certain tactics and drew a range of responses, from outright condemnation of the practices to sharp criticism of the committee’s preparation of the report.
Stewart was squarely in the former camp. He plugged his new film “Rosewater” in discussing the report — “You know it’s funny, I just made this movie about a guy who triumphs over the inhuman conditions in his imprisonment in an authoritarian country, and I don’t think they did half that shit to him” — performed a mocking accent of former President George W. Bush in pillorying his denial of the U.S.’s use of torture, and gave President Obama a pass for the administration’s desire that Senate Intelligence Committee Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein delay public release of the investigation.
“To be fair to the president, he was great on Colbert last night,” Stewart said.
The audience sounded like it had a ball.
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