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Jon Stewart opened Wednesday’s edition of The Daily Show with a short tribute to the victims of the Charlie Hebdo attack and a few words about the awful act.
Like the poignant Conan O’Brien and so many others in the last 24 hours, Stewart wasn’t shy about pegging the attacks as senseless. And while his words don’t necessarily carry more weight than others, this is an opportune time to lean in as perhaps the most eloquent inhabitant of the crossroads of comedy and political satire speaks:
“I know very few people go into comedy as an act of courage. Mainly because it shouldn’t have to be that. It shouldn’t be an act of courage, it should be taken as established law. But those guys at Hebdo had it. And they were killed for their cartoons.”
While he was making the rounds to promote Rosewater, Stewart stated on more than one occasion how fortunate we are “to live in a country where satire is settled law.” I even bothered to write it down, because that truth is a massive blessing that inevitably gets my (perpetually stingy) appreciative juices flowing. Now, not less, but more than ever.
