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Jon Stewart has a pretty good idea why “nobody really cares” about the mounting scandals surrounding Republican congressman George Santos. And it has everything to do with how he looks.
“Everything about him just screams of mediocrity,” the former Daily Show host said on the podcast that accompanies his Apple TV+ show this week, citing Santos’ big frame glasses, “doughy countenance,” and basic haircut. “He’s not obese, he’s not skinny, he’s everything in the middle,” Stewart continued, comparing him to the new “fresh meat” inmate who doesn’t know whether to join the “Aryan gang” or the “Spanish gang.”
After making a series of jokes at Santos’ expense with his co-hosts and writers Henrik Blix and Maria Randazzo—including the inspired speculation that Santos typed “lies I could tell that people wouldn’t check” into ChatGPT—Stewart stopped himself and took a step back to warn against the danger of turning the congressman into nothing more than a punchline.