Jon Stewart Reflects on Comedy, Integrity, and the Saudi Question

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In a wide-ranging interview between David Remnick and Jon Stewart at the New Yorker Festival yesterday, Jon Stewart touched on several issues, including his thoughts on the changes at Paramount under its new leadership. He wants to stay — and is working on it — but not without reservations. “They’ve already done things that I’m upset about. But then if I had integrity, maybe I would stand up and go, I’m out. Or maybe the integrity thing to do would be to stay in it and keep fighting in the foxhole.”

He also discussed, at length, the current state of politics in America, the dangers of social media, his interview with Donald Rumsfeld, and the comedians who took money from the Saudis to pe

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