Young Pre-'Daily Show' Jon Stewart's Compelling Performance (1997 WH Correspondents Dinner)

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Two years before he took the reins at "The Daily Show," Jon Stewart headlined the 1997 Correspondents Dinner after both Rosie O'Donnell and Dennis Miller denied to do the gig. A young Jon Stewart showed up and fortunately delivered. Although he spends a lot of time ridiculing Senator Robert Byrd for his (apparently) notorious hatred of dogs. The performance is nonetheless compelling, for the way it captures, in embryonic form, the earnest sarcasm that eventually won Stewart the hearts of Blue America.
Stewart also roasts Kennedy:
'I love Senator Kennedy. I think that guy's the coolest. Although I do think he has kind of an enormous head," he joked. "Honestly, it doesn't even look like a head. It looks more like a container for a head.''
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@planetboondock2383 2 жыл бұрын

"Isn't that what the confirmation process is all about here in Washington? Weeding out the truly qualified to get to the truly available."

@andybaldman 2 жыл бұрын

No truer words have been spoken about Washington

@planetboondock2383 2 жыл бұрын

@@andybaldman The Earthlings thank you for your support.

@jaycrum8775 20 күн бұрын

Sadly!

@arlenelove3857 18 күн бұрын

Omg...

@ontheruntonowhere 17 күн бұрын

Savage.

@moehoward01 2 жыл бұрын

_"I'm not very familiar about how things operate in Washington..."_ Oh, you will be, Jon. You will be.

@AmitRahman_LoneWolf 16 күн бұрын

❤

@MarysDressSways 16 күн бұрын

Ha! I had the same thought!

@snaptest4 16 күн бұрын

> proceeds to make a series of acute insider jokes on various politicians

@tyro244 16 күн бұрын

I heard Yoda's voice when I read this.

@moehoward01 15 күн бұрын

@@tyro244 😂I think I might have heard it, too.

@jeffclement2468 6 ай бұрын

Here in 2023, I still use that "container for a head" joke. Long live Jon Stewart!

@BornIn82 24 күн бұрын

You got Madeleine Albright to laugh 😂😂

@bassavino 22 күн бұрын

Charming, brilliant, razor sharp, perfect timing, and never, ever punches down

@akairborne 2 жыл бұрын

I would love to see Jon do a correspondent dinner in 2022. That would be some fire!

@theterminaldave 2 жыл бұрын

Holy crap i miss the 90's, i didn't even know what existential dread was.

@Mr3keestylee 18 күн бұрын

It didn't really start until we were imminently Millennial

@mjm.9082 17 күн бұрын

I miss the 90s too...

@piarco 22 күн бұрын

Genius then, hero now!

@hanselmenezes1406 2 жыл бұрын

'the million man march, or as some of you remember it... the day we called in sick' - SAVAGELY BRILLIANT. OMG

@thomthom6268 25 күн бұрын

The million man march... the day I flew National to Fresno, CA... for work. Foolishly, I took Metro, but the car FULL, full, full, of participants who kindly made room for 5.4 me and my week long suitcase and my ginger hair. Boy, did I stick out. But I was at the door for train transfer at L'enfant Plaza. The men were in high spirits and were accommodating and fun. I'll will always praise them for their kindness.

@SilentBob731 2 жыл бұрын

Jon Stewart...speaking truth to power for twenty-five years.

@Jin420 2 жыл бұрын

My God ---- I feel sooo old.. '97 seemed like it was just yesterday......

@dpm103151 22 күн бұрын

And simultaneously like a million years ago.

@vervor 19 күн бұрын

I love that they cut to another guy with a huge head during the huge head joke.

@jpan7071 2 жыл бұрын

I think this kid might have a future.

@63Hash 2 жыл бұрын

"Weeding out the truly qualified to get to the truly available"

@Dean0017 19 күн бұрын

He is a smart dude. We need more like him.

@anellawrites 14 күн бұрын

He’s a genius.

@lunatik9696 15 күн бұрын

Long B4 we ALL knew how smart he is. This is a CLEAR indicator of his wit.

@magicalpossibilities 14 күн бұрын

Jon is a national treasure.

@Physiker17 3 жыл бұрын

I have watched many correspondents' dinner performances, but never was the crowd that "happy". Jon, I miss you so much!

@idontknow1919 3 жыл бұрын

I was about to post the same thing. Even the Republicans were laughing

@theshadowtalks 2 жыл бұрын

@@idontknow1919 At you!

@TheEvilWalrusLord 2 жыл бұрын

He's back!!! Listen to the problem with Jon Stewart or watch it here on KZfaq so good he's a gem

@oscarinacan 2 жыл бұрын

Conan o'brien has entered the chat

@dionysusnow 2 жыл бұрын

he's not dead yet.

@ritafranco3020 18 күн бұрын

I love Jon. But he was absolutely too nice. I’d love to see him do another WHCD!!!!!!! Jon please do another one. ❤

@ibgreen1998 17 күн бұрын

It was… quaint, in no way mean-spirited. And amazingly funny and intelligent. That’s whatever need

@chapmanmc 14 күн бұрын

Sadly, he’d never be invited.

@Cancun771 Жыл бұрын

Ah yes. Those heady days when we didn't even consider George W. Bush could one day be president _and there would be a worse successor some day._

@ontheruntonowhere 17 күн бұрын

I literally didn't vote because I didn't think there was much difference. Regrets.

@Americathestupid 16 күн бұрын

I used to think W. was the dumbest president ever. Wow, was I ever wrong.

@brwi1 11 күн бұрын

@@ontheruntonowherethere wasn’t

@ontheruntonowhere 11 күн бұрын

@@brwi1 You're joking, right? No Afghanistan. No Iraq. No Samuel Alito, no John Roberts. No Citizens United. No Islamophobia. No fascist surveillance state. Climate legislation. A totally different country.

@brwi1 11 күн бұрын

@@ontheruntonowhere Gore is just as big of a neocon as W

@kathywilkowski725 10 күн бұрын

God! What a handsome man. Not to mention, a brilliant comedian.

@davidanderson566 2 жыл бұрын

Man, I love Jon Stewart even more!

@easternlights3155 2 жыл бұрын

I really wanna pay attention to what he's saying but... damn he's beautiful

@stillhere1425 20 күн бұрын

Those soulful, hooded eyes…😍

@Doctor_Straing_Strange 15 күн бұрын

he really is very handsome

@marcochimio 3 жыл бұрын

And now you know why he got the Daily Show gig.

@randomtees 2 жыл бұрын

The Daily Show wasn't political until Stewart took over. The Kilborn version was more like the type of show you'd see on the E! channel

@Norsilca 14 күн бұрын

@@randomtees This still must've been a factor in them hiring him

@marigail9234 7 күн бұрын

That was one of the better Correspondents’ dinners.

@kirstynweinberg 6 күн бұрын

@@marigail9234Hasan Minhaj was another good one. Roy Wood, Jr. got Biden pretty good.

@matkodoris9099 2 жыл бұрын

The toughest crowd in the country and the guy killed out there. Way to go Jon!

@stillhere1425 20 күн бұрын

Byrd was a friend to dogs compared to She Who Will Soon Be a Footnote.

@roberthevern6169 18 күн бұрын

Would that be (first Ms K N of not North Dakota ... !?

@dem8568 17 күн бұрын

Why relegate her to a footnote? I want her to be the face of the Republican party for the next generation, let's show the people what lunatics they're voting for!

@ontheruntonowhere 17 күн бұрын

@@roberthevern6169 Governor Kristi "I shot a puppy in the head" Noem.

@melissafinch9958 16 күн бұрын

I forgot how handsome he was❤❤❤

@lesliespann6420 10 күн бұрын

He still is handsome! 💚

@madelineholland4275 2 күн бұрын

I like him old, too!

@puddingfaceboy 2 жыл бұрын

JS 4 prez 2024

@tinjadog 18 күн бұрын

Brilliant, hilarious, charming.... Yes we all cherish these things about Jon Stewart. But could we please just have a moment of appreciation for those beautiful sideburns?

@mikewazowski350 16 күн бұрын

I'd like to go back to 1997. I'd do so many things differently.

@annettemay6197 2 сағат бұрын

At the very least, enjoy it more before it all went the way it has. It seems like halcyon days now.

@JJNow-gg9so 17 күн бұрын

Age has served you well Jon.(5-11-24)🌠

@mk4881 2 жыл бұрын

This man is a treasure!

@BenjaminVestergaard 2 жыл бұрын

I don't dare to think how bad he could roast today.

@melissafinch9958 16 күн бұрын

I love Jon Stewart❤❤❤

@AnandKulkarniPlusOne 3 жыл бұрын

Whoever you are, you have a tonne of my love for putting this up! 💕

@susanbader1408 3 жыл бұрын

Looks very handsome!

@nickp8041 2 жыл бұрын

"As we approach the millennium, I guess the real job of governemnt is to watch out for all the lunacy that's been going on. The closer we get to the year 2000 the more lunatics seem to come out of the woodowork." Man Jon I know this was just a setup for your Bob joke, but if only you had any idea about how regrettably true those words were going to echo throughout the next three decades.

@android12921 2 жыл бұрын

Prophetic. Jon was true about Tucker about 10 years before he became the douche at fox

@MrGittz 16 күн бұрын

Donald Trump was President. Donald Fuckin Trump. How? How did that happen?

@SoberOKMoments 11 күн бұрын

That comment jumped out at me, too. Among his many early gifts, he was also a prophet.

@brettboi3730 13 күн бұрын

Such a baby his voice was still cracking lmao @7:41

@knaz7468 9 күн бұрын

Can i F2 that thing? ... such a clever throw away joke.

@naomiweaver1855 20 күн бұрын

He’s the best. High bar.

@randal_gibbons 19 күн бұрын

Thanks for posting this.

@newsoul8626 2 жыл бұрын

what a great trip down memory lane!

@gummyberryjoos1693 2 жыл бұрын

"I don't really know much about how Washington works." Haha, give it a few years, buddy.

@lindy4462 20 күн бұрын

So handsome!

@davecongalton2858 2 жыл бұрын

Stewart's performance is the best of any comedian at this dinner. Nobody comes close.

@yogadr6 16 күн бұрын

Colbert improved on this, tho mentor Jon seemed to set a new standard here

@arriuscalpurniuspiso 15 күн бұрын

Michelle Wolfe was better. So was Hassan Minaj. I love Jon, but this is really tepid stuff

@samantatondelli6221 16 күн бұрын

And so handsome too 😲

@MikesOrganicVideos 17 күн бұрын

Thanks so much for posting this. I think I may have actually seen this back in the day, but I’m not 100% sure. Thanks again.

@feralbluee 28 күн бұрын

Jon Stewart was so young. Imagine getting a gig before the most powerful people in the U.S. and The President!! It really took a lotta, as he would say, chutzpah to get up there. And he had it and has always had it. I wonder what he thought when got home? *Well, I guess I’ll never work again. *That went - umm - well. I don’t remember, did they laugh? * Did I actually say that? Oh god My favorite was, “Nope! Nope! Nope!” LOL 🤣 Yea for Jon Stewart !!!!!! 😈

@susiechevalier221 3 күн бұрын

Hold my beer wait until 2024 for the crazies Jon!

@sierralvx 3 жыл бұрын

This was the year I was born.... Also surprised to see the WHCD on c-span 2!

@buckeyechuck4064 2 жыл бұрын

It doesn't look like a head, it looks like a container for a head.- best joke

@robhall3311 2 жыл бұрын

He was brilliant....

@kristn6513 2 жыл бұрын

IS brilliant! He's back ✌️💙Jon

@jamesgreen4212 2 жыл бұрын

YEAHHH HES BAACK

@FoxMacLeod2501 2 жыл бұрын

I love how you can clearly make out Bill Clinton cracking up to a lot of Jon killing it here. I can't believe I never knew about this, until 2022!

@MikeOria 2 жыл бұрын

Wow that was phenomenal.

@Dana-kb5mk 2 жыл бұрын

This is *fantastic*!! Thank you so, so much for this brilliant Upload 😘❤️♾️🕉️🔥🖖

@carolrademacher7002 2 жыл бұрын

The man is brilliant

@marciaj2615 14 күн бұрын

I love this man, then and now. At this stage of his life he truly was handsome. I've not seen all these dinners but this is one of the best comedians to date.

@suzanne6441 16 күн бұрын

Stewart came - oh so unhappily - to my small Stevens Point Wi college. Wow he was miserable and we just didn't get him. I moved to NYC the next year and got him then.

@kirstynweinberg 6 күн бұрын

I met him in 1999 at an event at SU and he was the sweetest guy ever. Looking back, I wish I was smarter to grab an autograph. He and Jean Stapleton!

@SaltyMinorcan 2 жыл бұрын

WHO KNEW HE WOULD KNOCK IT OUT OF THE PARK? 🙋🏼‍♀️

@libertyann439 2 жыл бұрын

So good to see that again 🙌☺

@user-yk2hz4yo5v 21 күн бұрын

That is exactly why Mr Stewart has done so well.

@roberthevern6169 18 күн бұрын

Yes!

@billmitchell2080 21 күн бұрын

One the funniest guys telling jokes to people with no sense of humor.

@MrChatmoon 2 жыл бұрын

Excellent

@marlalecin2932 2 жыл бұрын

I wonder what the "nope, nope, nope" jokes would have been....

@akfreed6949 Жыл бұрын

Cigars for one

@rikishri 13 күн бұрын

Hello in 2024 👋

@MrAhuapai 18 күн бұрын

The GOAT

@namegirl12 4 жыл бұрын

that's a big fucking room

@greatmcluhansghost7134 2 жыл бұрын

"weeding out the truly qualified to get to the truly avAILable." I mighta been at that party. was there cake? hmmmmmm. mmmm. hmmm? ha

@bobbyfeet2240 2 жыл бұрын

Al Gore really rolled with it.

@UkeCan1 19 күн бұрын

He has always had a real sense of humor about himself ... even though at the time he was famously stiff.

@toritori5835 4 күн бұрын

He was only 34 when he did this gig. Crazy to think that was 27 years ago. Time zoomed by so dang fast.

@lw5283 16 күн бұрын

jon's the best

@richardthelionheart5594 2 жыл бұрын

Mad Albreight didn't appear happy that her coming out was highlighted. Lighten up B, no Gestapo in the crowd, I think.

@violetfirth9417 2 жыл бұрын

Slam dunk

@d.e.b.b5788 18 күн бұрын

Holy crap; I hear Dennis Regan's vocal work in Jon's presentation. I wonder if there is a connection.

@noahfair1320 3 жыл бұрын

Back when these crowds had a sense of humour.

@AlJalandhari 2 жыл бұрын

I feel like correspondents dinners are edgier now though

@eugeneaxe 2 жыл бұрын

The 90's were the best.

@nerdnam 2 жыл бұрын

When these crowds weren't half lunatics.

@lordd007 2 жыл бұрын

@@nerdnam I agree. 100% of them are half crazy.

@michaeljenkins7024 3 жыл бұрын

I thought he was good, but he got such big laughs because he tailored the jokes to the sensibilities of the room. Norm Macdonald went much harder without getting half the audience response.

@-Jess.- 2 жыл бұрын

I like c-span. Its mesmerizing.

@charlesnelthorpe9252 2 жыл бұрын

Its not a fucking roast, and if you take two seconds to think about half the shit he's railing on is lighthearted sarcasm and the fact you can't understand that should disqualify you from commenting on anything humour related. go the fuck away dummy.

@-Jess.- 2 жыл бұрын

@@charlesnelthorpe9252 . .. ... he's a satirist. he's _satirizing._ My god, at least I don't have to add to my complex of making 'that's what he said' remarks that aren't in some way an innuendo. Seriously. As a comedian it's totally messing up my gait. For actual seriously, you're saying it's "lighthearted sarcasm", but in actuality, the things he is commentating on, he doesn't like it. Or he wouldn't have spent 1.5 decades as a television personality saying as much. start biting at my grammar syntax, and I will start giggling like a toddler who has paint scribbled all over your drawing. Thank you, and good night. Morning? Something.

@michaeljenkins7024 2 жыл бұрын

@@charlesnelthorpe9252 The comedian is brought in to perform a roast at the Correspondents' Dinner. That is literally the role they are hired to perfom at that function. The fact that you can't understand that should etc.

@-Jess.- 2 жыл бұрын

@@charlesnelthorpe9252 also, I don't like you. I find you to be boorish, out of touch w/ reality, and highly unpleasant. I also believe that this Jon here could stand for a hair-cut, but that could be the times. Unlike this set which is timeless.

@AlJalandhari 2 жыл бұрын

So safe

@johnrockenbach7241 17 күн бұрын

Very funny TY Jon.

@justingilbone6386 2 жыл бұрын

6:50 the funniest moment of the entire speech

@purpletopturnip4113 2 жыл бұрын

Madeline Albright seems like a real charmer. 😐

@benwu7980 2 жыл бұрын

She looked like she was really enjoying the night.

@susiechevalier221 3 күн бұрын

And nice to know that not passing the budget is a common game.

@parkerstroh6586 2 жыл бұрын

Oh my god he literally did a bad lip reading 15 years before they did

@hfjjor3681 17 күн бұрын

Wow. He’s hot.

@barbarahourigan8462 2 жыл бұрын

❤️

@sequoia1171 2 жыл бұрын

You can just see his contempt for everyone in the room already. He hadn't started doing what he would go on to do, not even for several more years, but already he could see the stain of the system

@angusmorrison9433 18 күн бұрын

Pierre Salinger knew what he was talking about. ...On to 9/11.

@lunatraveller 2 жыл бұрын

Ah... the good ol' days when there were sense of humour and civility in the world...

@SteveChisnall 6 күн бұрын

second only to Stephen Colbert's time at the WHCD

@rickv4473 2 жыл бұрын

Most people under 50 don't get half of this stuff. Im 60 and i got most of it.

@jasonlefler3456 2 жыл бұрын

He looks like a young Richard Lewis.

@jred5153 2 жыл бұрын

YOU TAKE THAT BACK! They look the same age....

@jensenbell 2 жыл бұрын

You never see them in the same room together 🤔

@Angie-Pants 2 жыл бұрын

I've thought this for years, glad I'm not the only one.

@herOhface 2 жыл бұрын

You’re wearing a bow tie.. ;)

@MrThankeesai 2 жыл бұрын

TIL they knew about high def television in 97

@UkeCan1 19 күн бұрын

Sony started working on high def TV in 1969. I worked on it at Bellcore starting in 1983. It was of course analog then - we didn't have the technology developed to do it digitally yet, though we knew that was the eventual future.

@MrThankeesai 18 күн бұрын

@@UkeCan1 wow thanks for the knowledge

@UkeCan1 18 күн бұрын

@@MrThankeesai It was pretty cool stuff to work on back then! No one had heard of it, including me before I got that job. We had a whole display room set up to show it to people, on a giant (at the time) 6-foot screen. The only footage available to show was Japanese, so we took a business trip to Orlando and Disney and down south to shoot some US scenes we could show.

@stateyourthesis 8 сағат бұрын

Hubbah hubbah ❤😂

@stevrgrs 18 күн бұрын

Michael Knowles is like a wannabe Jon Stewart circa this White House dinner :)

@em0_tion 3 жыл бұрын

👏😁

@mikes5814 4 күн бұрын

Completely avoided roasting Clinton. Thats the whole point of the dinner

@Hqemma 4 күн бұрын

Have you ever seen the back of a twenty dollar bill man...on weeeed?!

@mobiz711 24 күн бұрын

Now that you've see how it should be done, it's going to make watching Colin Jost do it all the more painful.

@Loveinthe808 21 күн бұрын

he was painful

@50skingjet86 Жыл бұрын

Wait, when he asks "can you f2 that joke?" does he refer to something in the real world? did other people say "to f2 something"? on my windows laptops since 2001, f2 was just renaming files or excel cells...

@UkeCan1 19 күн бұрын

He should have said ^Z