A Newly-Bearded Jon Stewart Just Sucker-Punched John Cena With A Steel Chair At WWE SummerSlam
Now THIS is what retirement should look like.
When David Letterman retired from Late Night, he grew a beard and spent his time leisurely talking shit about Donald Trump. When Stephen Colbert stepped down from The Colbert Report, he grew a beard, dressed as an old-timey sailor and started releasing confusing YouTube clips of him eating hotdogs. Now, a couple of weeks since his departure from The Daily Show, Jon Stewart’s upped the ante on all of them.
Not only has he grown the apparently requisite grey retirement beard but — after dodging a petition with more than 300,000 requests for him to moderate a presidential debate — he’s just invaded the ring during the title fight of this year’s WWE SummerSlam and rammed a steel chair into John Cena’s gut.
In the very likely case you can’t differentiate between the many pro-wrestlers whose arms all look like socks filled with marbles, John Cena is the one Amy Schumer very quickly ditched in Trainwreck:
It seems like he’s having a pretty tough year.
On its surface this looks completely insane, and yes, in almost every way it is. But here are a few points to consider if you’d like some context:
— Jon Stewart was hosting the event and seemed to spend the entire night running wild-eyed and confused around the arena. In a vastly different role from what we’ve come to expect from him over the past 16 years of fierce political debate, the first words of his opening monologue were “WHAT’S UP, BROOKLYN. WHAT’S UP, BROOKLYN. WHAT’S UP” and that was swiftly followed by a reference to The Beastie Boys.
— This all comes after an elaborate war of words between Stewart and the newly-crowned SummerSlam champion Seth Rollins which came to a head earlier this year when Stewart kneed him in the groin. Stewart’s defence of him in the ring against Cena today could be seen as a kind of peace gesture. Now the air is clear for the world’s most unlikely and spectacular friendship.
— It’s WWE wrestling. Everything is ridiculous, nothing is real, and Jon Stewart it makes perfect sense for Jon Stewart to be immortalised as “a SummerSlam criminal”. In all honesty, it’s one of the nicer titles he’s been given over the years.
via Uproxx.