I’ve been in Stewart withdrawal. Like so many others, our main source of news has been lost. No really: I never watched the network news nor read the paper; I watched Jon Stewart. Jon Stewart repeatedly denied and even dismissed as laughable the idea that he was a real journalist. However, I’m not sure if even Stewart realizes that perhaps the most honest way to report on a farce is by parody. That is his greatest achievement in my mind.
Here he is on Catholicism and Judaism:
I broke it to [the kids] recently that they’re Jewish. They’re at that age. My wife is Catholic, I’m Jewish… we’re raising them to be, um, sad. It’s the best of both traditions really.
— Jon Stewart on David Letterman (Feb, 2012)