Things received emotional for Jon Stewart three episodes into his return to The Daily Show. The political commentator introduced that his canine Dipper had died the evening earlier than.
“In a world of good boys, he was the best,” Stewart mentioned, honoring his canine’s loss.
Stewart recalled that twelve years in the past, his children needed to boost cash for an animal shelter in NYC known as Animal Haven. His children baked cupcakes and arrange a desk exterior the shelter to promote them and introduced out a brindle pitbull who had misplaced his proper leg after being hit by a automotive.
“I thought I’d get further,” Stewart mentioned as he choked up with emotion, remembering his canine.
Stewart and his household left the group alongside the pitbull they named Dipper. The Comedy Central host mentioned Dipper “used to come to The Daily Show every day. He was part of the OG Daily Show dog crew.”
“We’d come to tape this show, and Dipper would wait for me to be done,” he mentioned. “He met actors and authors and presidents and kings. And he did what the Taliban could not do, which is, put a scare into Malala Yousafzai.”
The present ran a clip of Yousafzai turning away on the sight of Dipper when she was a visitor on The Daily Show.
With tears in his eyes, Stewart mentioned, “Dipper passed away yesterday. He was ready. He was tired, but I wasn’t. And the family, we were all together.”
“My wish for you is one day you find that dog, that one dog… It’s just… It’s the best,” Stewart concluded earlier than dedicating a second of silence to Dipper. It was a video of him taking part in within the snow rolled together with the credit.
Watch the touching second within the video above.
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