![]() Very few people would be happy about looking like an anti-smoking poster.”įrom 1999 to 2015, Stewart and his team of writers pushed the boundaries of satire, creating an extraordinary synthesis of comedy, political comment and news. This is what I look like now,” he solemnly told his studio audience, to much laughter. “I really want to address the elephant in the room. When he reappeared last year behind the presenter’s desk of his new Apple TV series, The Problem with Jon Stewart, he acknowledged the length of time he’d been away. ![]() I get to our table first and he arrives a few minutes later, a baseball cap pulled over a mop of silver hair - a change since he was last a regular on TV screens in 2015, when he broadcast his final episode of The Daily Show. He spoke for many in the city in an emotional on-air monologue shortly after 9/11, and in subsequent years his hometown’s affection for him grew because of his campaigning for the rights of emergency workers who survived the attack, culminating three years ago in a landmark law that permanently funds medical care for 9/11 first responders. Pizza is a fitting choice for a lunch with one of New York’s most beloved sons, a former stand-up comedian who became America’s pre-eminent satirist over 16 years as the host of The Daily Show, and who was this year awarded the Mark Twain Prize for comedy. There are also framed photographs of various celebrity guests, including Nicolas Cage, the formerly famous and not very good rapper Vanilla Ice and, by my table, a young Billy Crystal.īut more on the pictures later. A sign over the door says “No Slices” inside, dark panelled walls are adorned with graffiti scratched by diners down the decades. Along with watching the Knicks lose at basketball, riding the subway, getting yelled at in the street (or on the subway) and seeing a rat - usually on the subway - is there a more New York experience than eating pizza? This I ponder while I wait for Jon Stewart at John’s of Bleecker Street, a Greenwich Village institution that looks as old as its 93 years. ![]()
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