Stewart Takes Down Florida Pastor Planning 'Burn A Koran Day' (VIDEO)

Last night on "The Daily Show," Jon Stewart had a field day mocking Florida pastor Terry Jones for organizing an "International Burn the Koran Day" on the upcoming ninth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.

Stewart mocked everything about Jones's planned torching of the Quran, including his use of the word "international" in the title and his ridiculous mustache. He also pointed out that various news outlets had compared the media firestorm around the event to that of the proposed "Ground Zero Mosque." Stewart noted the ridiculousness of the comparison, saying, "a Christian is an extremist for burning the Quran, and a Muslim is an extremist for reading from it."

To get some perspective on the situation, Stewart turned to John Oliver, who called Jones a "radical, hate-spewing extremist."

"This man is f***ing crazy," Oliver said. "He doesn't represent Christianity any more than "Dr. Laura represents the United Negro College Fund."

Oliver and Stewart proceeded to have a raucous debate about religion, prompting both men to read excerpts from their holy books: the Bible and the "Jewish manual" which happens to be "Portnoy's Complaint" by Philip Roth.

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Comments

[gbw100]

09:27 PM on 09/11/2010

There was a time, not that long ago, when the ONLY place you would have heard about this story would have been on the daily show.

[Billyguitar]

04:15 PM on 09/11/2010

Frosting the liver. Now that's funny!

[CJ40inWI]

11:16 AM on 09/14/2010

Warning: Do not watch clip when drinking coffee.. Spewage upon your precious LCD Monitor may result.

[floridalib]

01:53 PM on 09/11/2010

I live in Florida, and am planning a Bible burning that I will cancel at the last moment only after every world leader tells me not to. I am also growing a mustache. Anybody for SMORES??

[gevan]

12:25 PM on 09/11/2010

Just to be clear, I am against "frosting the liver". Warm pie, I'll leave to others more knowledgable on the subject.

[pinkeyelemonade]

07:58 AM on 09/11/2010

Ah, the joys of organized religion.

What a mess.

[grapebrother]

11:58 PM on 09/10/2010

I feel sorry for the founding members of Monty Python. First, Michael Palin had to contend with having a raving lunatic in Sarah Palin for a namesake; now the original Terry Jones (Michael Palin's writing partner) is going to be confused with this wanking,hate-spewing pastor with the same exact name. All they need some right-wing psycho with a Cleese or a Gilliam or an Idle surname to complete the ignominious list. Sorry, boys, you deserved better...

[Graybeard-X]

12:52 PM on 09/11/2010

And now for something completely different !

[javaJimmy]

02:57 PM on 09/13/2010

"There's a penguin on the telly.
Intercourse the bloody thing!"

[BluWoman]

12:37 PM on 09/10/2010

I find it a bit curious as to why HP0 hasn't posted the clip of John's be@t down of Tim Kaine.

Nice job of attempting to hide the the Nation's true opinion of how this Admin is doing.

[AndyWright68]

09:58 AM on 09/10/2010

Have you not had enough? Burn it all! Korans, bibles, nation's flags, constitutions, laws etc. People don't want hate and war. Politicians organized religions and the MSM do.

Everyone, right now, get out those bibles, symbols, flags, voter cards, licenses, registrations, certificates, credit cards, and anything else that controls your life and burn baby burn! Free yourself and live in peace.

[ord8avg8guy]

12:42 PM on 09/10/2010

You are Jack's smirking revenge.

[KIVPossum]

04:24 AM on 09/10/2010

Where are you on frosting the liver.......rotflol

[eri 68]

10:34 AM on 09/10/2010

I almost snorted my smoothie lol

[kiki Buchi]

04:22 PM on 09/12/2010

You cray Americans first burn your Muslim president and you will heeled!

[Puller58]

02:49 AM on 09/10/2010

Jones was looking for publicity, but forgot that might include digging up his past in Germany.

[Nebris]

11:25 PM on 09/09/2010

"The problems the JudeoChristLamic Father/God Cults have with our modern technological civilization are fairly obvious. All three are the 'metaphysical operating systems' of Bronze Age desert nomads ruled by tribal Patriarchs. Their world view is narrow and provincial and their God is a Small God, one confined, at the very least, to this world alone.

Confronted with the modern scientific reality of The Universe, He is positively Lilliputian. For His faithful, such a situation evokes Fear, then Hate, and finally, Rejection."

http://theoriginalnebris.blogspot.com/2010/08/her-prophet-on-religion.html

[Nebris]

11:23 PM on 09/09/2010

LOL @ 'frosting the liver'

[Angie Tyne 1]

07:57 PM on 09/17/2010

Ok, I was going to fan you for your very well written comments but now I have to for this one. LOL f/f

[BluWoman]

11:20 PM on 09/09/2010

Great stuff, as usual.

Civil W@r mustache collector; Bleepin hilarious!!!

I'm just wondering where the thread is, that shows Tim Kaine getting served up by John.

[Behind the Tweed Curtain]

11:11 PM on 09/09/2010

Looks like it's back on. No great surprise. I never thought he would step out of the spotlight, he's got a national pulpit now.

[Harpseal60]

11:15 PM on 09/09/2010

I for one won't be watching anything this clown does this week-end. I plan to change the channel if they start talking about him.

[PrairieDog]

11:11 AM on 09/11/2010

It's not a pulpit, it's a sewer.

[Behind the Tweed Curtain]

02:10 PM on 09/11/2010

It is that. But with the proper lighting and camera angles, it will look to some like a pulpit.

[questioneveryone2]

10:54 PM on 09/09/2010

Pastor Jones is only extending the stupidity that has become our international farce. The only real answer is the answer that our founders knew to be in ours and the worlds best interest and that is the separation of church and state. We have been sucked into by the religious right to think of ourselves as a "christian nation". Nothing could be more wrongheaded, obvious lies or the mentality that has led us to the stupid pissing contest.
Sorry to say, but the pastor has part of the argument right in that he should have the right to burn the Koran on 9/11. The piece he is missing is that he should burn the Koran, the bible, the torah and any other supposed sacred book. The simple logical reality that they all claim to be the words of god are the exact evidence that they all are nothing but made up bsht to suck promote an agenda that has nothing to do with religion. If there is a god, don't you think he might be using his one timeout (gee maybe god should have more than one) to put a stop to this horror show. What could he or she (for all you sensitive folks out there) possibly gain from us killing each other year after year.

[Curious Black]

12:56 PM on 09/10/2010

God would gain the souls of a bunch of @$$wipes that are ripe for the recycle bin.