The Daily Show despite its news trappings is a comedy show and has had a difficult time dealing with the recent cases of police killings of black people. They could not ignore these stories since they were so huge but at the same time, how can you get humor out of tragedy especially when the events are so recent? They managed to do so with the events in Ferguson but the failure of a grand jury to indict the New York police officer who killed the unarmed Eric Garner when he posed no threat to anyone was too much for Jon Stewart to handle and he simply threw his hands in the air and allowed himself to editorialize about tragedy and humor.
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