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Jon Stewart puts Starlink on hold on The Daily Show

A mock customer-service call caps a monologue connecting French protests, Russian diesel and Ukraine's satellite access.

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0:27Stewart examines Vance's response to a town-hall question about his immigration rhetoric.
3:13French protest footage opens a sequence about Vance's explanation and Macron's concert attendance.
9:55The monologue turns to Trump's fuel-price comments and the Russian diesel deal.
13:05Nesting dolls help Stewart parody Chris Wright's explanation for buying Russian diesel.
16:55Stewart begins a mock Starlink customer-service call; its final interruption arrives at 20:26.

Jon Stewart reaches for the phone, hoping to get an answer about Ukraine's restricted Starlink access. What follows is a staged customer-service ordeal, with clips of Marco Rubio and Donald Trump supplying the unhelpful replies. International relations has become a call that nobody wants to transfer.

That sequence closes "Paris Protests Erupt Over High Fuel Costs & Trump Cuts Diesel Deal with Russia | The Daily Show," the most-watched of The Daily Show's fifteen new uploads. It has collected roughly 5.4 million views. Before the phone comes out, Stewart moves through JD Vance's comments about French protests, Emmanuel Macron's concert attendance and the administration's explanation for buying Russian diesel. A set of nesting dolls becomes his prop for unpacking Energy Secretary Chris Wright's reasoning.

The same edition also brought an interview with Mother Jones journalist David Corn about his book "How Russia Won." Separate uploads give the Vance commentary and Starlink routine lives of their own beyond the full monologue.

The freshest momentum, though, belongs to Jordan Klepper's profile of Katie Zacharia's brief tenure as press secretary. Michael Kosta's midterm roundup is also among the channel's busiest uploads, moving from a campaign ad featuring an opponent's mother to Trump's remarks about Republican candidates.

The channel gained about 55 million views over the week and added subscribers, while its daily viewing is running at more than four times its usual level. Saturday Night Live also had a substantial week, with the largest weekly view gain among these nearby late-night channels. For The Daily Show, the distinctive thread is how much mileage one Stewart edition supplies: a monologue, an interview and two standalone comic excerpts.

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