On this weekโs episode of โThe Daily Show,โ Jon Stewart covered the conservative outrage over Bad Bunnyโs Super Bowl Halftime Show.
โMr. Bunny killed it, despite being trapped in an inescapable sugarcane hedge maze,โ Stewart joked. โHe had Lady Gaga, Ricky Martin and The Mandalorian. He threw a wedding! He held a model U.N.! He even had the time to make a con-ed service stop midconcert. He did it all. โJust reboot the box and enjoy! De nada.โ It was joyful and infectious andโฆโ
The show then cut to a clip of conservative commentator Benny Johnson calling the performance โthe single worst halftime show in NFL history.โ
โOh, right. I forgot,โ said a dejected Stewart. โFor a significant portion of Americans, everything that happens must uniformly be filtered through a particular MAGA-centric worldview and judged on how well it conforms to that traditional vision, which doesnโt include knowing where the biblioteca is.โ
Later in the show, Stewart played clips of Newsmax anchors claiming that โdoing a halftime show in all Spanish is not unifyingโ and that the performance โdividedโ America amid great political turmoil.
โWhy the fuck is it the Super Bowl Halftime entertainerโs job to unify the country?โ Stewart said. โIsnโt there another person whose job description is more along those lines? Let me ask you a questionโฆ What did that person do to unify the country?โ
Stewart then cut to a clip of NBC News covering President Donald Trumpโs Truth Social review of Bad Bunnyโs halftime show. Trump wrote that it was โabsolutely terrible, one of the worst ever,โ adding that โnobody understands a word this guy is saying.โ
โNobody? I love that he thinks Bad Bunny is the one guy in the world thatโs fluent in Spanish,โ Stewart joked. โโNobody understands it. Itโs a dead language.โ You know the right has a lot of balls complaining that Bad Bunny didnโt do enough to unify this country when you only found out a few days ago that Puerto Ricoโs a part of it!โ
Watch the entire monologue below.
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