As Jon Stewart returned to The Daily Show on Monday, he had some advice for the country’s radicalized men in the wake of recent attacks.
The comedian offered a “plea to all the would-be terrorists out there,” noting that Shamsud-Din Jabbar, Matthew Livelsberger and Luigi Mangione were all “normal-seeming people” who suffered “a setback in their life” before carrying out their attacks.
“Hey girl, down on your luck?” he said to the camera. “Girlfriend left you, job’s a dead end, spending a lot of time watching whatever YouTube autoplay is showing you, and now you got some ideas. How about you don’t kill everybody? Just do what everybody else does in that situation; get a f—in’ podcast. That way, nobody dies. You get a podcast, nobody dies, you can still terrorize people, and no… I do not want to be on it.”
Stewart’s latest episode comes after U.S. Army veteran and Texas native Jabbar was identified as the individual who drove a Ford pickup truck into a crowd in New Orleans’ French Quarter on New Year’s Day, killing 15 people and injuring more than 30.
On the same day, a Tesla Cybertruck exploded outside a Trump hotel in Las Vegas, planned as a “wakeup call” by Green Beret and Trump supported Livelsberger, who died in the explosion.
Mangione has pleaded not guilty to murder and terror charges after he was accused of killing United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson last month.