{"id":528807,"date":"2026-03-17T13:20:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T13:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/528807\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T13:20:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T13:20:08","slug":"jon-stewart-says-opera-and-ballet-have-defeated-timothee-chalamet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/528807\/","title":{"rendered":"Jon Stewart Says ‘Opera and Ballet Have Defeated Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tOn this week\u2019s episode of \u201cThe Daily Show<\/a>,\u201d Jon Stewart<\/a> weighed in on Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet\u2019s viral takedown of ballet and opera.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cAs you are well aware, a terrible war has been raging for two weeks now,\u201d Stewart said at the top of Monday\u2019s show, feigning an allusion to the Iran war. \u201cBut as of last night, it is clear that opera and ballet have defeated Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet. No contest! A knockout! Even before they brought out prima ballerina Misty Copeland<\/a> in the middle of the \u2018Sinners\u2019 performance.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cRight in front of him! Boom!\u201d Stewart continued. \u201cCan\u2019t wait to switch out my Ukrainian flag [Facebook] profile picture for the playbill to \u2018Die Fledermaus.’\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tDuring \u201cA CNN & Variety Town Hall Event<\/a>,\u201d Chalamet said that he didn\u2019t want theatrical movie going to end up like the \u201cballet or opera,\u201d where artists want to \u201ckeep this thing alive\u201d even though \u201cno one cares\u201d about it anymore. Outrage over the comment spread rapidly on social media in the days after, especially from the opera and ballet communities<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tVeteran ballet dancer Copeland, who was part of this year\u2019s \u201cMarty Supreme\u201d press tour, danced at Sunday\u2019s Academy Awards during an ensemble performance of the original \u201cSinners\u201d track \u201cI Lied to You.\u201d Copeland was one of the many performers to speak out against Chalamet\u2019s claim<\/a> that \u201cno one cares\u201d about the ballet or opera. In a clip shared on social media, she said that there was \u201ca reason that the opera and ballet have been around for over 400 years,\u201d adding that \u201c[Chalamet] wouldn\u2019t be an actor and have the opportunities he has as a movie star if it weren\u2019t for opera and ballet and their relevance in that medium. So all of these mediums have a space and we shouldn\u2019t be comparing them.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On this week\u2019s episode of \u201cThe Daily Show,\u201d Jon Stewart weighed in on Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet\u2019s viral takedown of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":528808,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[88,9609,233644,9610,57100],"class_list":["post-528807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-jon-stewart","tag-misty-copeland","tag-the-daily-show","tag-timothee-chalamet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528807","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=528807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/528808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}