Jon Stewart has responded to the angry One Direction fans who started a trending campaign online calling out “The Daily Show.” Last week, Directioners thought show correspondent, Jessica Williams, named Zayn Malik as a terrorist as she slid One Direction into a long list of terrorist groups.
Although it was all a joke, Directioners took it seriously, and started the hashtag #TheDailyShowGoneTooFar, saying it was unfair to call Zayn a terrorist because of his Muslim and Pakistani background (however, Williams never said Zayn’s name).
After what was surely a full weekend of cyber bullying from the uber-passionate-sometimes-scary Directioners, Stewart or Williams were bound to do a sketch about it on Monday. Instead, Stewart mentioned the whole hullaballo with a mere passing remark about how Directioners’ passion should be used for something more constructive, like fighting climate change.
While commenting on President Obama’s UN speech about climate change, Obama says there’s one issue that’s the most influential in our world. Stewart took a guess at what that issue might be: “The terrifying enthusiasm of One Direction fans?”
“I had to sign out of my own Instagram!” he said, whimpering down to his desk, adding that if we used the enthusiasm of 1D fans in the struggle against global warming, we might have more successful results.
Watch the video and tell us what you think! Should we put Harry on an iceberg?
Emilee Lindner
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