Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — Former host Jon Stewart returned to The Daily Show Monday evening to help put a spotlight on the fight to renew the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act, which provides health care for those who suffered from cancer and other health problems caused by working in recovery efforts at Ground Zero in New York City after 9/11.
“Wait! Are you here to take the show back?!” host Trevor Noah panicked. “I’ve heard about this in American TV!”
“A thousand times no,” Stewart whispered, explaining, “Actually, I have this issue and I care about very deeply…but I realize I don’t have a show, and nobody gives a s*** any more.”
Stewart went on to explain — to Noah’s alleged confusion — how Congress never made the lifesaving coverage permanent. “You’re not from around here,” Stewart told his South African successor.
“The only conclusion I can draw is that the people of Congress are not as good of people as the people who were first responders,” Stewart said, before describing how he went back to Washington DC last week — with a camera crew and victims in tow — to lobby the legislators in person. The Emmy winner then screened some of what he shot in and around Capitol Hill for the Daily Show audience.
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