Apple TV fired Jon Stewart for making fun of China
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Faking what?
Jon Stewart was always an unfunny hack. The entire shtick of the 'Daily Show' is to get the audience to laugh with the laughter track about political subjects the editorial team chose to highlight from a certain angle in order to get the desired effect. It was always progressive and only mildly transgressive.
You could get really hard-hitting comedy with all the hypocrisy in American politics, but the Daily Show was always that unfunny kid that tried to be funny in class, and the only one that kept laughing was the teacher.
Its probably the one redeeming thing about him, and a respectable one at that. He has been crusading on that front hard for a long time, long past when most people had moved on and forgotten it.
For all his faults, and boy there are a lot of them, he has brought more good in the world on that single front than probably every member of his staff and social circles combined ever will.