If you missed this week’s episode of “The Daily Show,” Jon Stewart kicked things off with a moment that felt almost too surreal to be real. He went after Donald Trump for accepting FIFA’s brand-new Peace Prize, all while the US is cranking up military pressure on Venezuela. Stewart didn’t tiptoe around it either. He treated the whole thing like an absurd contradiction playing out in plain sight.
Stewart started by walking viewers through last Friday’s World Cup draw. For most people, the draw is just about figuring out which countries will face each other in the opening round. But Stewart pointed out that the smaller storyline of “who will get stuck in the group of death” wasn’t even the biggest question of the night. Instead, he joked, the real suspense was “who would win FIFA’s first Peace Prize?”
