Jon Stewart responds to mention in leaked Epstein files email: “We all searched our names, right?”
On the latest episode of The Daily Show, Jon Stewart revealed that his name was mentioned in an email sent to Jeffrey Epstein that has leaked in the Epstein files.
Stewart had no correspondence with Epstein, but decided to search his name on the database anyway and was surprised to discover that the disgraced financier had discussed him in an email that has now been made available.
“Of course, to get ahead of the story, I am also in the files,” Stewart told viewers, before adding, “We all searched our names, right? You guys didn’t search your name?”
The comedian elaborated, “This is actually true. I take you to the scene: It is midnight, August 29th, 2015. Jeffrey Epstein lies wide awake, his mind turning with ideas. He jots a quick note to a producer named Barry Josephson, saying, ‘I suggested to Woody’.”
He then joked in reference to Woody Allen, “You all know which Woody, right? It’s the Epstein files, it ain’t Harrelson or the cowboy from Toy Story.”
Epstein’s email, which Steward said on air, reads, “‘I suggested to Woody that he do a new stand-up routine for either Apple TV or Amazon,'” before sarcastically adding, “Jeffrey Epstein always had his finger on the pulse of what America was clamoring for in 2015!”
Then, in response, Josephson replied to Epstein, “But Barry Josephson, thinking like the out-of-the-box television professional that he was, pitched this idea. This is true, quote, ‘Make a true biographical experience with his stand-up being the capper. Somebody like Jon Stewart could host/narrate the biographical part.”
Stewart, in character, jokingly added, “Excuse me? I am offended! Somebody like Jon Stewart, or Jon Stewart?! My point is, do I have the offer or is this an audition?”
He then turned serious when covering emails from Elon Musk, who denies any wrongdoing, to Epstein, who he said has been “crashing out” in recent days and “posted about the Epstein files more than 85 times over the last two days”.
Stewart also alleged that the Department of Justice are protecting Donald Trump with the files they are choosing to release, stating, “Look man, we always knew that the people at DOJ releasing these documents weren’t on a fact-finding mission, they were running interference. And the guy they’re running interference for seems very satisfied with these results.”
On a sincere note, Stewart angrily stated that “nothing has happened to any” of the people implicated in the Epstein files and ridiculed Prince Andrew becoming Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor as a punishment for his alleged involvement.
Stewart’s full monologue is available to watch below.
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