Jon Stewart is back in his old stomping grounds. On Thursday, the former host of “The Daily Show” returned to the show for an interview with Trevor Noah about Confederate statues, Black Lives Matter and more.
RELATED: Jon Stewart Tells Howard Stern How Diversity Has Improved ‘The Daily Show’ Since He Left Responding to the issue of protesters calling for the removal of statues to Confederacy, Stewart said, “I don’t remember the conservatives during the Iraq war when the Saddam Hussein statue fell in Baghdad, I don’t recall Republicans at the time going, ‘Big mistake!
You don’t want to erase your history!'” He added, “The statues are not from the confederate era, they’re from the Jim Crow era.