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Jon Stewart returned with a vengeance to the familiar stomping grounds of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on CBS. While on Monday’s episode, he disarmed critics of the Wuhan lab leak “conspiracy theory” with a piercing comedic take that has ruffled the left’s feathers.
“I think we owe a great debt of gratitude to science,” Stewart began. “Science has, in many ways, helped ease the suffering of this pandemic—which was more than likely caused by science.”
“Novel respiratory coronavirus overtaking Wuhan, China,” he continued. “What do we do? Oh, you know who we could ask? The Wuhan Novel Respiratory Coronavirus Lab.”
“The disease is the same name as the lab,” he carried on. “That’s just a little too weird, don’t you think? And then you have some scientists who are like, ‘So wait a minute, you work at the Wuhan Respiratory Coronavirus Lab. How did this happen?’ And they’re like, ‘Mmmm, a pangolin kissed a turtle?”
“No! Look at the name! Show me your business card! ‘Oh, I work at the Coronavirus Lab in Wuhan. Oh, because there’s a coronavirus loose in Wuhan. How did that happen?’ ‘Maybe a bat flew into the cloaca of a turkey and then it sneezed into my chili and now we all have coronavirus.’ Like, come on!”