
Jon Stewart Opens Up About Injury That Left Him Bleeding On 'Daily Show' Set
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It was actually the second time he needed stitches after an on-air mishap.
“Daily Show” host Jon Stewart said Monday night’s injury that left him bleeding on the set in the middle of the opening monologue was actually the second time he needed stitches for a bit gone wrong.
“It was a margarita blender with me and [John] Oliver,” he said in a new video, referring to a segment in 2011 in which the blender broke, cutting open his wrist. “And Oliver couldn’t have been happier.”
Stewart said Oliver “sat there gleefully watching,” and at one point offered up a Monty Python-esque “it’s just a flesh wound” as he bled.
As Stewart recalled the previous injury, he showed off the result of his current one, with his finger wrapped in a makeshift bandage that someone on set devised.
“They just go, ‘You want some duct tape on that? Old electricians trick,’” he said. “I’m like, ‘Sure.’”