"Opening Monday night's show, Stewart mocked those named in the release as a veritable who's who of who you imagine wanted someone to touch their hoohoo adding: allegedly [Howard] Lutnik, [Steve] Bannon, [Elon] Musk, [Larry] Summers, [Bill] Gates, [Bill] Clinton, [Steve] Tisch, Melania [Trump], the guy who directed Melania [Brett Ratner], Prince Andrew, and Sir Richard Branson. Rounding on the president, he dropped one more name: And, of course, the star of our show, Donald Josephine Trump,"
"This led him, with a nervous laugh, to then warn his audience that he had a confession to make: Of course, to get ahead of the story, I am also in the files. We all searched our names, right? he jokingly laughed. The explanation, he went on, was banal to the point of absurdity. Stewart's name appears in a 2015 email exchange between Epstein and Hollywood producer Barry Josephson in a message about a potential stand-up project for Woody, whom Stewart inferred was Woody Allen."
"I take you to the scene: It is midnight, Aug. 29, 2015, Stewart said. Jeffrey Epstein lies wide awake, his mind turning with ideas. The email itself floated the suggestion that Allen develop a new stand-up routine for a streaming platform, before Josephson added an idea for framing it as a biographical project. His pitch included a hypothetical narrator: Somebody like Jon Stewart could host/narrate the biographical part."
Jon Stewart told viewers that his name appears in the latest Jeffrey Epstein document release and treated the revelation with satire. He mocked a lengthy list of alleged figures named in the files, singling out Donald Trump for frequent mentions. Stewart explained that his appearance in the records comes from a 2015 email exchange between Epstein and producer Barry Josephson about a potential Woody Allen stand-up or biographical project. The email floated Allen developing a streaming routine and proposed "somebody like Jon Stewart" as host/narrator, which Stewart presented with mock outrage and comedic narration.
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