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* [[General Ripper]]: Puppet Senator John McCain against illegal immigrants.
* [[Giver of Lame Names]]: Jon will sometimes do this to his segment titles as a [[Running Gag]], going through several increasingly horrific versions before settling on the final one.
* [[The Glasses Come Off]]: In this [http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-january-21-2010/special-comment---keith-olbermann-s-name-calling segment], he takes off and puts on various pairs of glasses while making his dramatic speech.
* [[A Glass in the Hand]]: Parodied in [http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-february-11-2009/clusterf--k-to-the-poor-house---wall-street-bailout this clip] as Jon handles a series of bad news about the Wall Street bailout by breaking a champagne glass, then the accompanying bottle, and finally his "comically convenient fish tank." (Hehe's done similar gags with Spit Takes, as mentioned below, and one time with a Jenga game.).
** A [[Call Back]] was made to that clip in [http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-december-1-2011/america-s-next-tarp-model this clip] on TARP, where Jon reacts to the financial loopholes involving the bailout by first snapping a pencil, crushing a piece of coal so hard it becomes diamond, before doing the same to [[Crosses the Line Twice|a cute (live) kitten.]] {{spoiler|Not really.}}.
* [[God Save Us From the Queen]]: She's p-p-p-p-[http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-april-2-2009/changing-of-the-garb poisonous.]
* [[Godwin's Law]]: The ''Back in Black'' segment ripping [http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-may-12-2010/back-in-black---glenn-beck-s-nazi-tourette-s Glenn Beck's "Nazi Tourettes.".]
{{quote|'''Lewis Black:''' It's "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon", [[Dissimile|except there's just one degree, and Kevin Bacon is Hitler!]]}}
** Also [[Defied Trope|defied]] in a "Rally to Restore Sanity" poster - "I may disagree with you, but I'm pretty sure you're ''not'' Hitler."
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{{quote|'''PF Rep''': All the animals [the bodybuilders] can go in their cages and the rest of the people can come here."
'''Jason Jones''': You know how else said that?
'''PF Rep''': .....Hitler?
'''Jason Jones''': What?? No! I was going to say [[Thomas Jefferson]]! }}
** Jon does not like when anyone, of any stripe, compares anyone else to the Nazis. He's been complaining about it since as early as 2004 on Oprah, when it was the Democrats comparing Bush to Hitler and Republicans in the House comparing Democrats to Hitler and Democrats in the House comparing Republicans in the House to Hitler.
* [[The Golden Rule]]: Subject of a Crosses The Line Twice joke in The Daily Show, where apropos of a meeting between Catholic Cardinals to discuss the sexual molestation scandals, Jon claims that the aformentionedaforementioned Bible verse will be altered to include the footnote "except when explicitly prohibited by law"."
* [[A Good Name for a Rock Band]]: Cribbing a quote from a CNN Anchor about a sex scandal, Jon proclaims
{{quote|'''Stewart''': "If there's not a hip indie band named ''Lesbian Bondage Fiasco'' by next week..."}}
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*** And got extra jokes out of it, too. [http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-february-15-2007/dance-dance-resolution "It's as if Harvey Fierstein had hosted the Daily Show!"]
* [[Here We Go Again]]: Jon Stewart cut his hand by breaking a glass object [http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-april-25-2012/space-innovators AGAIN!]
* [[High-Class Glass]]: Toppington Von Monocle, the show's "biggest fan,", who appeared in a segment in response to Bernie Goldberg accusing Jon of playing to an "incredibly unsophisticated audience" (see [[Sophisticated As Hell]] below).
* [[Hilarious Outtakes]]: Frequently left in. For instance, Jon Stewart stumbling all over the camera placement while talking with Gitmo.
* [[Homage]]: Jon riffed on Churchill while talking about his ''Crossfire'' appearance: "Tomorrow, I will go back to being funny, and your show will still blow."
* [[Hostile Show Takeover]]: On Election Night 2008, Stewart and Colbert co-hosted a live show reporting on the results (in between humorous bits and interviews, of course). After Ohio went to Obama, it became obvious he was going to win the election. ''The Daily Show'''s two black correspondents, Larry Wilmore and Wyatt Cenac, took this as a sign that they could do "whatever they want", and tried to host [[''The Daily Show]]'' and ''[[The Colbert Report]]'', respectively. It was over by the commercial break.
** Kristen and Samantha also once tried to take over the show when Jon went to the toilet, because they felt it was time for a female host.
* [[Hypocritical Humor]]: "Yes, it's cathartic - it can be so therapeutic to publicly ridicule those whose views you find repugnant when they are in no way able to respond."
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