Jon Stewart’s political comedy ‘Irresistible’ fails to coalesce ARNOLD WAYNE JONES | Executive Editorjones@dallasvoice.com I still haven’t fully forgiven Jon Stewart for abandoning America.
That’s harsh. But in 2015, when he stepped away from hosting The Daily Show — the comedic moral center of our political discussion — he left a vacuum where outrage mixed with gravitas and accessibility.
He used to mock how many people got their “news” from his satire show, but the truth is they did. Part of me still wonders if, had he hung around long enough to skewer the Nazi Cheeto every night at 10, we might be in a different world today.
And so the fact that Irresistible, his new politically-charged feature film (as writer/director, not actor)