After the Cut 2026 | Jon Stewart and The News Team Take Audience Questions

**SPEAKER_1** (0:00)
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**SPEAKER_2** (2:35)
You're listening to Comedy Central.

**SPEAKER_3** (2:53)
Do you ever consider running for an office?

**Jon Stewart** (2:56)
It's a very kind of you. And by the way, it is, I cannot tell you how wild it is to have people even think that having the power over their lives is something they would appreciate that you have. But I do know like all the folks in the media like this, like Steven, like Jimmy, we get this. This is a question that comes up a lot. And I think it speaks to, if I may, and I don't know the motivation, it speaks to this desperation and dissatisfaction that we have with the status quo. And so then you see somebody on television who's saying some of the things that resonate with you, and you think, well, f**k it. It really is, I think you should be president, is the line that comes right after f**k it.
Because most people go like, I'm watching this, I'm doing this, these guys aren't doing that. You know what? F**k it. That guy should, he's on TV. It's almost like you're cursing me with like a Twilight Zone, like make him.
But it is like, I so understand the feeling, like I think what's happening right now with all of us, myself included, because having the ability to have a catharsis or talk about it or work with people every day is emotionally sustaining, but I think we have a shared feeling of helplessness. Because we're all watching the same thing and going, this is some of the show, the show tonight is sort of like, you're here on a good night.
Who are you going to believe, you or your lying eyes? And where we're at is in sort of that, how are we going to slow this down? I'm telling you, the one thing that I will say is, the institutions may be wanting and may be failing, but the people aren't. People keep saying, oh, this guy is Hitler. No, he's not. And I'll tell you why he's not. Hitler was popular. This guy's not. Because the people, and I'm talking about people like, I live in a town where a lot of people went that way. They give me a lot of shit in the deli. Like, I walk in the deli, and it's like, hey, hey, how's that auto pen? How's Biden's auto pen? I walk in the deli now, and they're like, what would you like on your sandwich?