Here are Stewart’s top moments skewering politicians and the U.S. political system:
“Indecision 2000”
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The aftermath of 2000’s presidential election between George W. Bush and Al Gore turned Stewart, who’d just started the show, and a cast of supporting characters that included Stephen Colbert and Steve Carrell, into must-watch television.
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In the wake of the 2008 presidential election, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, a social conservative, tried to defend his opposition to same-sex marriage against Stewart, who compared Huckabee’s stance to segregation.
“I think it’s the difference between what you believe gay people are and what I do,” Stewart said. “Religion is far more of a choice than homosexuality, and the protections that we have for religion — we protect religion, and talk about a lifestyle choice, that is absolutely a choice. Gay people don’t choose to be gay.”
As Huckabee argued that the definition of marriage has stood for thousands of years, Stewart said: “It feels like semantics is cold comfort when it comes to humanity.”
