Jon Stewart helps save Jimmy Kimmel's Brooklyn show after a devastating New Yorker rejection

Jon Stewart gives Jimmy Kimmel a pep talk
(Image credit: Screenshot/YouTube/Jimmy Kimmel Live)

"Since we are here in New York, I thought it would be fun to see if I could get, and maybe you could get, a cartoon published in The New Yorker," Jimmy Kimmel said on Tuesday's Kimmel Live, taped in Brooklyn. Fun did not turn out to be the operative word — it turns out, The New Yorker is pretty picky about which cartoons it buys. But Kimmel's dejection did not last long — Jon Stewart helped him bounce back; malign The New Yorker and its editor, David Remnick, and cartoon editor Emma Allen, who gamely took it onstage; and revel in Benedict Cumberbatch's delightful scent. Watch below. Peter Weber

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Peter Weber, The Week US

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.