“Daily Show” host Jon Stewart said Monday night’s injury that left him bleeding on the set in the middle of the opening monologue was actually the second time he needed stitches for a bit gone wrong.
“It was a margarita blender with me and [John] Oliver,” he said in a new video, referring to a segment in 2011 in which the blender broke, cutting open his wrist. “And Oliver couldn’t have been happier.”
Stewart said Oliver “sat there gleefully watching,” and at one point offered up a Monty Python-esque “it’s just a flesh wound” as he bled.
As Stewart recalled the previous injury, he showed off the result of his current one, with his finger wrapped in a makeshift bandage that someone on set devised.
“They just go, ‘You want some duct tape on that? Old electricians trick,’” he said. “I’m like, ‘Sure.’”
Stewart cut his hand open during Monday night’s show when he smashed a mug in anger as he railed against the pharmaceutical industry in the middle of a segment focusing on how DOGE is targeting federal workers and slashing basic services while ignoring government handouts to big businesses.
“I’ll be going to the hospital,” Stewart said after examining the wound.
But if he did go to the hospital, it wasn’t right away: He not only powered through the rest of the opening monologue, he also completed the show with the injury, at one point showing the wrapped hand still bleeding as he interviewed a guest.
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Watch Stewart talk about the injury during a “Daily Show” behind-the-scenes segment called “After The Cut.”
That’s been the name of the video series all along, but the title seems especially fitting this week: