Jon Stewart was again on The Every day Present this week to kick off Pleasure Month.
The Emmy Award winner ripped into the hypocritical nature of rainbow capitalism on Monday’s episode, however not earlier than he paid tribute to Pat Sajak following his ultimate Wheel of Fortune episode.
“I might be remiss if I didn’t touch upon the large information in broadcasting,” he mentioned on the present’s opening. “Pat Sajak stepped down from Wheel of Fortune after 41 years, it was extremely emotional. And I simply wish to say to Pat Sajak… have you considered simply doing Mondays? Since you may cellphone that f***er in.”
Sajak’s ultimate episode as host of the Wheel of Fortune aired Friday after he first stepped into the function in 1983. Ryan Seacrest was introduced as his successor shortly after the information of Sajak’s retirement broke final yr.
Stewart then tackled the complicated panorama of company Pleasure as corporations started rolling out their rainbow-themed merchandise.
The comic pointed to gimmicks like Burger King’s burger with “two backside buns” and Skittles’ colorless sweet in order to not have “competing rainbows,” in addition to an Oreo advert that takes viewers on a weird rollercoaster.
He additionally referred to as out Goal for scaling again its Pleasure choice over the right-wing backlash, in addition to Bud Mild’s controversy round trans influencer Dylan Mulvaney.
“Why are we permitting ourselves to get labored up over whether or not large multinational companies are pro-gay or have conventional American values?” he reasoned. “As a result of companies have however one worth: shareholder worth. That’s all they’ve!”
Stewart added later within the phase, “Let’s cease pretending {that a} company may even be woke, or unwoke, or patriotic, or unpatriotic. Let’s simply let companies dwell their reality… because the profit-seeking Patrick Bateman psychopaths they’re. On the very least, we’d lastly get some honesty from them as nicely.”