Even though they were on vacation and thus off-air when the Supreme Court’s Hobby Lobby decision was released, Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert couldn’t let the decision pass without comment. Both comedian’s respective shows returned to the airwaves Monday night and dedicated several minutes to the repeating the left’s arguments against the decision.
After an innuendo-laced introduction, Colbert poked fun at the decision, saying that according to the Court corporations have religious beliefs. “It makes sense,” he joked, “Hobby Lobby, obviously, Christian. Panda Express is Jewish at Christmastime and Papa John’s of course is atheist because their pizza makes you doubt there is a God.”
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Stewart discussed the decision in two different segments of his show. The first lampooned the decision in a mock news segment which ended with Jason entering sans a particular item of clothing to propose pantsless Mondays because his corporation “Jonesy Wonesy Has A Bonesy LLC can do whatever it wants” and “as a devoutly religious corporation” he can’t let pants get in its way.
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Stewart returned to the issue in a more serious fashion when he spoke with Dahlia Lithwick, Slate magazine’s Supreme Court correspondent about the decision. After the two joked about the Court “doing a little Kabuki with the black robes” and their entrance from behind a red curtain, Lithwick characterized the court’s decisions as horrible for women, an interpretation which Stewart seemed to support.
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