Monday was April 20, and Jon Stewart got all dressed up to celebrate 4/20 with a lighthearted look at pot in the news. CNN, the object of Stewart's frequent mockery, seemed ripe for the picking, but actually turned out substantive reports on the benefits of medical and recreational marijuana for patients and state tax coffers, respectively. "This pot story isn't fun at all," groovy Stewart said on Monday's Daily Show.
That's when Jessica Williams made an appearance as the voice of a sober new generation of pot smokers, playing the foil to Stewart old-school stoner shtick. But since this is The Daily Show, and not sketch comedy, Stewart got in the last jibe, at New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R), who it turns out is only against certain suspect forms of raising revenue for his state, regardless of opposition from the feds. —Peter Weber
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