Must-watch: Jon Stewart on the London Olympics


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9:01 am - July 25th 2012

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“Honestly Jon – how did you run an empire for 300 years?”

After briefly welcoming The Daily Show to British television again, the Daily Show’s Jon Stewart looks at the disaster of the Olympics.

The best line: “Really Britain, your answer to the precision spectacle of China’s 2008 games is to let a few dozen sheep loose on the Teletubbies set?”

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1. Luis Enrique

Boris: a boiled ham in a Donald Trump wig.

hahaha

2. Jayarava

He’s not really very funny. Maybe it’s a cultural thing.


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