On this week’s episode of “The Daily Show,” Jon Stewart addressed conservative outrage over Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show.
“Even though it was trapped in a maze of sugar cane hedges that it couldn’t escape from, Mr. Bunny killed it,” Stewart joked. “He had Lady Gaga, Ricky Martin, and The Mandalorian. He had a wedding! He hosted a Model United Nations! He even had time to shut down a fraud service in the middle of a concert. He did it all. “Just restart the box and enjoy! De Nada.” It was fun and infectious, and…”
The program then cut to footage of conservative commentator Benny Johnson, who called the performance “the worst halftime show in NFL history.”
“Oh yeah, I forgot,” said a disappointed Stewart. “For a significant portion of Americans, everything that happens must be uniformly filtered through a particular MAGA-centric worldview and judged by how well it fits into that traditional vision. This doesn’t include knowing where the library is.”
Later in the show, Stewart played a video of a Newsmax anchor claiming that “doing an all-Spanish halftime show is not unifying” and that his performance “divided” America amid political turmoil.
“Why on earth is it the job of the Super Bowl halftime entertainer to unify the country?” Stewart said. “Is there anyone else with a similar job description? Let me ask you a question…What did that person do to unify the country?”
Stewart then cut to a clip from NBC News reporting on President Donald Trump’s Truth Social review of Bad Bunny’s halftime show. “Absolutely terrible, one of the worst in history,” Trump wrote, adding: “Nobody can understand a word this guy is saying.”
“Nobody? I love that he thinks Bad Bunny is the only guy in the world who speaks Spanish fluently,” Stewart joked. “‘No one gets it. It’s a dead language.’ You know there’s a lot of people on the right who are complaining that Bad Bunny didn’t do enough to unite this country when we just found out a few days ago that Puerto Rico is part of this country!”
Watch the full monologue below.
