Jon Stewart Calls Kash Patel a ‘Make-a-Wish Man’ for Hockey Celebration

On this week’s episode of “The Daily Show,” Jon Stewart covered the Right’s enthusiastic response to the United States’ hockey victory over Canada at the Olympics and poked fun at FBI Director Kash Patel for joining Team USA in the locker room for the celebration.

At the top of Monday’s show, Stewart painted a dismal picture of what America was like before Team USA’s 2-1 gold medal win.

“This country is in such emotional turmoil right now,” Stewart said. “A feeling that we are one nation divided, under siege. That perhaps we have crossed a Rubicon of this great American experiment, and that we, slowly and inexorably, are sliding into the abyss of fallen and broken democracies. But then!”

The show then cut to a clip of Jack Hughes scoring the game-winning goal for Team USA.

“We’re back, motherfucker!” Stewart exclaimed. “I know the powerful elites remain unaccountable, but he put the thing behind that other guy! This country was sinking into a cesspool we couldn’t recover from, but he put the vulcanized rubber disc behind the lord of the net! It was so unifying! There is nothing that can take away from the joyous moment as all Americans celebrate this incredible — wait, what the fuck?”

The late-night host cut his celebration short upon seeing that Patel celebrated with Team USA in their locker room.

“Is that FBI director Kash Patel?” Stewart added. “Are they putting a medal on FBI director Kash Patel? Is Kash Patel a Make-a-Wish man?”

Stewart then turned his attention to the Right’s reaction to the win. The show cut to a clip of conservative commentator Benny Johnson saying that the triumph represented “masculinity and celebration,” two things that have been “completely and totally sanitized from our arch feminist culture, our estrogenetic culture.”

“First of all, what a super weird year hockey is having. Like, in four months, to go from, ‘Nobody gives a shit about hockey,’ to, ‘Well, I like to watch them fuck,’ to, ‘Only hockey can save us from a dystopian, estrogenetic future.’” Stewart joked, referencing HBO’s hit queer hockey series “Heated Rivalry.” “Perhaps the strangest part is how this victory in a hockey match is being perceived on the right geopolitically.”

Stewart then cut to clips from Fox News, in which contributors said that Canadians are “basically communists” and that “hockey is all that they had, and we took that away.”

“What is with this sore winning?” Stewart joked. “And by the way, don’t we have enough real enemies? Now we got to pretend like Canada’s way of life is incongruous to the west? ‘Yeah! fuck those completely best neighbors our nation has ever had!’”

Watch the entire monologue below.