Jon Stewart critiques Netanyahu's 'festival of slights,' Congress' Bibi adulation

Jon Stewart wasn&#039;t impressed with Benjamin Netanyahu&#039;s big speech — (Image credit: The Daily Show)

There wasn't much that Jon Stewart liked about Tuesday's spectacle of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warning a fawning Congress about President Obama's Iran nuclear talks — not Bibi's conceit that he was speaking for all Jews, not Obama's "eh, we're still cool" response, not CNN's weird Star of David graphics, and not Netanyahu's 19 years of urgent warnings about Iran. But you probably guessed that Stewart wouldn't like the speech.

Watch below to see Stewart argue that the world does need "Netanyahu's anti-aging secret," his crude analogy about Congress appreciating the big speech, and probably his best line of the night, about Tuesday marking "the sacred Jewish holiday of 'Suuk-On-It-Mr. President,'" a "festival of slights." —Peter Weber

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Peter has worked as a news and culture writer and editor at The Week since the site's launch in 2008. He covers politics, world affairs, religion and cultural currents. His journalism career began as a copy editor at a financial newswire and has included editorial positions at The New York Times Magazine, Facts on File, and Oregon State University.