Jon Stewart, a born and bred New Yorker, kicked off his Monday night installment of The Daily Show celebrating the momentous victory of the Knicks, shouting out sanitation workers and the community of NYC for coming together to celebrate the team’s triumph for the first time since 1973.
Describing an “overwhelming sense of joy and solidarity and diversity and community and a good amount of crying and a lot of contact high,” Stewart mocked right-wing media’s depiction of the festivities as violent, apologizing that they couldn’t live up to its depiction of a “peaceful gathering” like the Jan. 6 insurrection.
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