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Watch Mario Batali Feed Jon Stewart "Pre-Chewed" Food On The Daily Show
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John Del Signore
Published Jan 17, 2012
Modified Jan 17, 2012
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Last week Stephen Colbert handed over the reins of his super PAC—Citizens for a Better Tomorrow, Tomorrow—to Jon Stewart so that he could focus on exploring a possible run for "president of the United States of South Carolina." Election laws don't allow Colbert to coordinate with Stewart on how to spend all that money, so it's up to The Daily Show host to decipher Colbert's intentions from his public statements. And after watching Colbert's statements on "This Week," he deduced that the money would best be spent hiring Mario Batali to cook a delicious meal for him—and then pay double for the chef to "pre-chew" the food and deposit it into Stewart's gaping mouth. Yes, really:
It's a living! Stewart has so much super PAC money at his disposal that he feels like a "cartoon hobo who just won the lottery." Among his other expenses: appearing on television wearing a diamond-studded tiara, and paying the people of China to "stand in formation so from space you can read 58008. Which, unbeknownst to the Chinese, when the planet rotates, reads BOOBS." Eat your heart out, Donald Trump!
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John Del Signore
Originally from the Albany area, John Del Signore has called NYC home since 1995. In addition to his thousands of meticulously-crafted bespoke blog posts for Gothamist, his writing has also been published in The Awl, Deadspin, The Nervous Breakdown, and performed at The Brick Theater in Brooklyn.
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