Jon Stewart hook

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Jeff Labrecque
Jeff Labrecque
Jeff Labrecque is a former senior editor at Entertainment Weekly. He left EW in 2018.
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Published on June 9, 2011 04:44PM EDT
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One night after gashing his right hand on a martini-glass while skewering Anthony Weiner’s weiner mea culpa, Jon Stewart used the accident as the primary hook in his opening monologue. (Eh? Ehh?) After thanking the doctor at Mount Sinai Hospital who stitched him up — and presumably gave him that adorable monkey bandage — Stewart recognized an unknown hero. “I really want to thank the kid who was obviously waiting for facial reconstruction surgery, you know, to let me jump the line,” he joked. “Because obviously, I had a reservation at Nobu at 8:30.”

Watch the clip after the jump:

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