Jon Stewart Slices His Hand Open Live On ‘The Daily Show’ Ranting About DOGE

Baila Eve ZismanFebruary 26, 2025, 12:25 amNews >

The host of The Daily Show, Jon Stewart, experienced a mishap on air on Monday when he accidentally broke a coffee mug and cut himself. Stewart, 62, was giving an impassioned space about the Department of Government Efficiency’s (DOGE) budget cuts and the heightened expenses of prescription drugs.

He declared with gusto, “The companies we subsidize with billions of dollars are allowing us the privilege to negotiate the price of 10 of their drugs… And 10 is all of them, right? It would be embarrassing if it was a small drop in the bucket, and that the American people didn’t expect that we should negotiate for all their f—ing drugs, because we have already paid for them with our subsidies!”

“It is f—ing insane!” he shouted before he shattered his mug on the desk in front of him, and yelled, “Come on!” Moving his hand under the desk out of view, Stewart quipped, “I’ll be going to the hospital soon,” and continued his monologue.

A few minutes later Stewart lifted his hand above the desk to examine it. The audience gasped at the excess blood, but Stewart merely laughed, saying, “It’s fine!”

The Daily Show made the most of the incident, posting on their Instagram stories, “TONIGHT: Jon Stewart takes on DOGE and makes some ‘cuts’ of his own. He’s fine. We hope.”

Stewart himself commented on X regarding the event, “We’re back! New Daily Show tonight!”

He hinted, “It’s a bloody good episode…emphasis on bloody…I’m an idiot…”

Stewart has yet to comment on the severity of the injury.

Stewart’s longer monologue saw him mock the DOGE, saying, “How about we just take the $3 billion in subsidies we give to oil and gas companies that already turned billions in profits?…How about we just close down the carried interest loophole on hedge funds that’s worth $1.3 billion a year? Oh, how about we stop the $2 trillion we’ve given to defense contractors to build a fighter jet that blows, when everybody knows the next war is going to be fought with drones and… blockchain, whatever that is, holy shit!”