It has been a big week for Daily Show regular Jason Jones. The Canadian-born comedian officially became a U.S. citizen last week, and on Tuesday night, with Jon Stewart sick, he got to host the show. Mostly. Citizenship papers in tow, Jones said he's excited to vote in the 2016 presidential election, and his futile rooting for Vice President Joe Biden is a meta-commentary on his replacing Stewart in the big chair.
Jones had a nice riff on Biden telling a Harvard audience about how Turkey and the Gulf Arab states financed and armed various Islamist factions in Syria, including al Qaeda types. "All he did was say the true things we're all thinking," Jones said. "Biden is basically the Seinfeld of vice presidents." He followed that up with a decent Seinfeld impersonation.
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