Jon Stewart’s “Daily Show” audience jeered loudly on Monday night when they learned that President Donald Trump had elevated Stephen Miller to his chief of staff. But they weren’t supposed to, as he reminded them after they got it out of their system.
“Before the show, I mentioned to the audience ― this is true ― I said, ‘You know what? You’re going to see some clips you might not like. And please try not to boo on that. We got some jokes written off all the clips,’” he said. “They couldn’t resist.”
But he wasn’t really mad at them.
“In some ways, I don’t blame them,” he said. “This is entrapment.”
Stewart also played a clip of Miller sucking up to Trump by calling him “the greatest president in American history” and pledging his “total devotion.”
“What kind of Transylvania shit is ‘I pledge my total devotion and absolute loyalty?’” Stewart asked. “Because I do think I’ve heard the phrase before.”
With that, he rolled a supercut video of some of pop culture’s most loyal henchmen pledging allegiance to notorious supervillains.
Check it out in his Monday night “Daily Show” monologue: