Jon Stewart was a standup comic, so he knows how to it feels to bomb a joke like President Obama did with that spilled milk one during Tuesday's State of the Union address. Stewart went easy on the president last night for the sour quip, pointing out that Obama's most important constituent, his wife, didn't seem to approve from where she was sitting in the audience. He did however lampoon the other theatrics of Tuesday's speech, such the ways Obama emulated Oprah and that awkward moment when as talk turned to Israel, network cameras panned to a certain Jewish Senator.
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