{"id":459827,"date":"2026-02-10T08:44:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T08:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/459827\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T08:44:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T08:44:07","slug":"jon-stewart-slams-conservative-outrage-over-bad-bunny-halftime-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/459827\/","title":{"rendered":"Jon Stewart Slams Conservative Outrage Over Bad Bunny Halftime Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tOn this week\u2019s episode of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/the-daily-show\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-daily-show\" data-tag=\"the-daily-show\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Daily Show<\/a>,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/jon-stewart\/\" id=\"auto-tag_jon-stewart\" data-tag=\"jon-stewart\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jon Stewart<\/a> covered the conservative outrage over <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/bad-bunny\/\" id=\"auto-tag_bad-bunny\" data-tag=\"bad-bunny\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bad Bunny<\/a>\u2019s Super Bowl Halftime Show.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cMr. Bunny killed it, despite being trapped in an inescapable sugarcane hedge maze,\u201d Stewart joked. \u201cHe 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. \u2018Just reboot the box and enjoy! De nada.\u2019 It was joyful and infectious and\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe show then cut to a clip of conservative commentator Benny Johnson calling the performance \u201cthe single worst halftime show in NFL history.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cOh, right. I forgot,\u201d said a dejected Stewart. \u201cFor 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 doesn\u2019t include knowing where the biblioteca is.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tLater in the show, Stewart played clips of Newsmax anchors claiming that \u201cdoing a halftime show in all Spanish is not unifying\u201d and that the performance \u201cdivided\u201d America amid great political turmoil.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cWhy the fuck is it the Super Bowl Halftime entertainer\u2019s job to unify the country?\u201d Stewart said. \u201cIsn\u2019t there another person whose job description is more along those lines? Let me ask you a question\u2026 What did that person do to unify the country?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tStewart then cut to a clip of NBC News covering President <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/donald-trump\/\" id=\"auto-tag_donald-trump\" data-tag=\"donald-trump\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Donald Trump<\/a>\u2018s Truth Social review of Bad Bunny\u2019s halftime show. Trump wrote that it was \u201cabsolutely terrible, one of the worst ever,\u201d adding that \u201cnobody understands a word this guy is saying.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cNobody? I love that he thinks Bad Bunny is the one guy in the world that\u2019s fluent in Spanish,\u201d Stewart joked. \u201c\u2019Nobody understands it. It\u2019s a dead language.\u2019 You know the right has a lot of balls complaining that Bad Bunny didn\u2019t do enough to unify this country when you only found out a few days ago that Puerto Rico\u2019s a part of it!\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tWatch the entire monologue below. <\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On this week\u2019s episode of \u201cThe Daily Show,\u201d Jon Stewart covered the conservative outrage over Bad Bunny\u2019s Super&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":459828,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[5897,12,88,9609,9610],"class_list":{"0":"post-459827","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-bad-bunny","9":"tag-donald-trump","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-jon-stewart","12":"tag-the-daily-show"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=459827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/459828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}