Jon Stewart Makes A Sleeping Charlie Rangel Wet Himself

 

Jon Stewart unveiled a new segment last night in which he ran down the latest news of alleged corruption of elected officials that included John Kerry, Charlie Rangel and Rod Blagojevich. (Yes, some are sure to note that all of his targets are Democrats.) But if one needs evidence that we’ve entered a slow news cycle, just know that The Daily Show mocked of Kerry’s rhetorical style from his presidential run of six years ago!

The funniest bit in the following clip? In Jon Stewart’s world, Rep. Charlie Rangel not only naps on his illegally parked Mercedes-Benz, but is somehow also vulnerable to the “hand in the water makes you pee whilst sleeping trick” as Stewart so deftly demonstrates in the video embedded below.

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