A selection of Jon Stewart's finest moments

Stop reading this intro and start laughing.

Jon Stewart versus Sean Hannity’s obsession with Spring Break:

Some of the more sceptical viewers might think this is less of a news story and more of a reason to spend a week running wildly inappropriate T&A footage alongside pundits tsssking said footage. But you’d only be 99.9 per cent right.

Jon Stewart on the Israel-Gaza conflict:

Guys, we cannot be Israel’s rehab sponsor and its drug dealer. It’s not going to work. Just say no.

Jon Stewart on Iraq and Isis:

You can have all these memorable screw-ups and more, just call and order ‘now that’s what I call being completely f*ing wrong about Iraq'.

Jon Stewart on Rob Ford:

This f--king guy is a one-man episode of Cops. Somewhere in a basement through his tears Anthony Weiner is going "what the f--k"?

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Jon Stewart takes on Sarah Palin:

Where is that speech even appropriate? At an al-Qaeda recruitment 'how-to' video workshop?

Jon Stewart skewers Glenn Beck:

If you subscribe to an idea, you also subscribe to that idea’s ideology. And to every possible negative consequence that that ideology remotely implies when you carry it to absurd extremes. For instance…

Jon Stewart versus Fox News, part I:

In the wake of Ferguson, he asked:

Do you not understand that life in this country is inherently different for white people and black people?

Jon Stewart versus Fox News, part II:

Fear, anger and dissent is the manna on which it sustains its parasitic, succubus-like existence.

Jon Stewart takes on democracy:

In 2004 after George Bush defeated John Kerry, he deadpanned:

I never thought I’d say this: I miss voter fraud.

Jon Stewart introduces bulls--t mountain, and its mayor Bill O’Reilly:

The denizens of bulls--t mountain believe many things. They believe that a Kenyan Muslim president has fundamentally changed the relationship between government and the people of this country. On bulls--t mountain they believe if they built it, it was because of their success… but if life hasn’t worked out for them, it is the government on their back.

Jon Stewart on White House security:

As his White House correspondent put it:

Ebola isn’t going to stick around very long. It says it doesn’t feel safe in the White House

Jon Stewart takes on Obama

Obama: Jon, I don’t want to lump you in with a lot of other pundits.

Stewart: And I don’t mean to lump you in with other presidents.

In the 2010 interview, a segment of which is shown below, Obama also offered the classic line: "Yes we can, but."

Jon Stewart versus aliens:

Little-known fact: Before the Daily Show, Stewart appeared classic 1990s film The Faculty with Josh Hartnett and Elijah Wood.

And finally...

This throwback video featuring a topless Steve Carell, Stephen Colbert and Stewart was recently highlighted by Comedy Central and may just be his finest moment of all.

Note to readers: This selection of Jon Stewart's finest moments has been slightly inhibited by the lack of Daily Show footage available for viewing outside the United States.

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