{"id":284606,"date":"2026-02-10T22:13:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T22:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/284606\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T22:13:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T22:13:07","slug":"jon-stewart-calls-maga-backlash-to-bad-bunnys-super-bowl-show-actually-pathetic-late-night-tv-roundup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/284606\/","title":{"rendered":"Jon Stewart calls Maga backlash to Bad Bunny\u2019s Super Bowl show \u2018actually pathetic\u2019 | Late-night TV roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"

Late-night hosts addressed the performative Maga outrage over Bad Bunny\u2019s Super Bowl half-time show<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Jon Stewart<\/p>\n

Jon Stewart<\/a> returned to his Monday night Daily Show post fired up about the Super Bowl, and particularly the outrage from conservative pundits such as Megyn Kelly and Benny Johnson over Bad Bunny\u2019s half-time show, which he performed, as usual entirely in Spanish.<\/p>\n

Stewart played numerous clips of Fox News hosts et al complaining that they couldn\u2019t understand the Spanish, then cut to a clip of Turning Point USA \u201cAll-American Halftime Show\u201d headliner, Kid Rock, singing his hit Bawitdaba, with its gibberish chorus.<\/p>\n

The host then tore into the rightwing talking point that Bad Bunny\u2019s half-time show, whose overarching theme was pan-American unity, was not \u201cunifying\u201d because it was in Spanish. \u201cWhy the fuck is it the Super Bowl Halftime entertainer\u2019s job to unify the country? Is that their job?\u201d he fumed. \u201cIsn\u2019t there another person whose job description is much more along those lines?\u201d<\/p>\n

He cut to Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s attempts to \u201cunify\u201d the country this weekend by posting a racist video depicting the Obama family as apes, then refusing to back down, apologize or even acknowledge the offensiveness of the post. \u201cAnother unifying tip might be to tell your guy to stop tweeting out racist slop during Black History Month,\u201d Stewart joked.<\/p>\n

Then there was the rightwing meltdown over the Olympian freestyle skier Hunter Hess, who said that representing the US brought up \u201cmixed emotions\u201d because \u201cthere\u2019s obviously a lot going on that I\u2019m not the biggest fan of and I think a lot of people aren\u2019t\u201d. Trump called<\/a> Hess \u201ca real loser\u201d, among other things.<\/p>\n

It all led Stewart to ask: \u201cWhen did the right become such fucking pussies?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cRemember 2017?\u201d he continued. \u201cRemember what you hated about liberals? Perpetually offended, safe spaces, censoring free speech, culture of victimhood. Remind you of anyone? \u2018Oh, I can\u2019t go 15 minutes without listening to country music. I need a separate show.\u2019 \u2018Oh, that skier triggered me. I can\u2019t sleep.\u2019 Not the best imitation, but you know what I\u2019m going for.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis whole culture war this weekend has really demonstrated one thing: it\u2019s that for all of Maga\u2019s triumphalism, it\u2019s not a movement that seems confident in its position,\u201d he added. \u201cThese people who control every branch of government are so triggered by someone singing in Spanish for 20 minutes, they need to create their own safe space alternative half-time show, where Trad Bunny over here is singing songs about how he can\u2019t even enjoy sitting in a truck and drinking beer because he knows that somewhere out there, there\u2019s a trans person.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s actually fucking pathetic,\u201d he concluded. \u201cThe gap between the power you all wield and the victimhood you all claim is the real offense. If you didn\u2019t actually have the power to do so much damage in our country, I think we\u2019d all dismiss it as a weak and pathetic pity party.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jimmy Kimmel<\/p>\n

And in Los Angeles, Jimmy Kimmel<\/a> also mocked Trump\u2019s claim that he was offended by the Bad Bunny half-time show, which Kimmel called \u201ca tribute to the Spanish-speaking world and to culture\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a man who paid off a porn star who spanked him with his own face on a magazine,\u201d said Kimmel. \u201cAnd he\u2019s offended by the half-time show.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt really is amazing how differently people can see the same thing,\u201d he continued. \u201cHalf of us saw a heartwarming story about immigrants who have dreams, who come to America, who work hard, get married, grow up, raise families, sing, dance, play backgammon. The other half? It was like the movie 28 Days Later.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Turning Point USA \u201cAll-American Halftime Show\u201d put on as an exclusionary alternative might as well have been called \u201cthe Kristi Noem Shoots Her Puppy Bowl\u201d, joked Kimmel, \u201cbecause this was not a good program\u201d, beset by technical glitches and Kid Rock egregiously missing his lip sync cues. \u201cThis is it in a nutshell,\u201d said Kimmel. \u201cThis what they do: they complain about how bad everything is, and then they do it worse. And not only do they do it worse, they do it in jorts.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s all so performative,\u201d he added. \u201cNumber one, if Bad Bunny had stopped by the White House to make nice with Trump like Nicki Minaj did, or Kanye West or the Village People, Maga would have no problem with Bad Bunny at the Super Bowl. They\u2019d pretend to love him too. But since Bad Bunny isn\u2019t a fan of Trump, since they knew that at half-time there would be a bunch of confused white people sitting on their couches being like \u2018what the hell is this,\u2019 they decided to make it a thing. You know the things they always make to try to get us to forget about all the redacted names in the Epstein files? Like trans Budweiser and gay M&Ms? They made it one of those.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll the snowflakes are so upset they have to listen to Spanish for eight minutes, they decided to make their own half-time show,\u201d he concluded. \u201cAnd of course, like everything they do, it was a disaster.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Late-night hosts addressed the performative Maga outrage over Bad Bunny\u2019s Super Bowl half-time show. Jon Stewart Jon Stewart…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284607,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[146,85,46,411],"class_list":["post-284606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}