Jon Stewart is shooting down theories that COVID-19 could be anything but lab-created, saying the pandemic was “more than likely caused by science.”
“There’s a novel respiratory coronavirus overtaking Wuhan, China,” Stewart said during a Monday appearance on “The Late Show” with Stephen Colbert.
“Oh, you know who we could ask? The Wuhan novel respiratory coronavirus lab,” he exclaimed to his former “Daily Show” colleague. “The disease is the same name as the lab! That’s just a little too weird, don’t you think?” Stewart added, referring to the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
Colbert, in his first show before a studio audience in more than a year, appeared to push back on Stewart’s take on where the disease originated, saying, “There’s a chance this was created in a lab. There’s an investigation. If there was evidence I would love to hear it, I just don’t know.”
“So wait a minute, you work at the Wuhan respiratory coronavirus lab,” Stewart retorted. “And they’re like, a turtle kissed a penguin?”
“Maybe a bat flew into the cloaca of a turkey, and then it sneezed into my chili, and now we all have coronavirus,” Stewart, 58, continued.
“Oh my God, there’s been an outbreak of chocolatey goodness near Hershey, Pa. What do you think happened?” he added in a mocking tone. “Oh I don’t know, maybe a steam shovel mated with a cocoa bean? Or it’s the… chocolate factory! Maybe that’s it.”
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{Matzav.com}
