Jon Stewart Mocks 'Square' Newt Gingrich's Twitter Campaign Launch (VIDEO)

Jon Stewart closed out this week of "The Daily Show" with a hilariously unabated takedown of Newt Gingrich and his Twitter campaign launch, mocking pretty much everything about the conservative candidate. For example, did you know that if Gingrich was a superhero, his power would be the ability to "turn things beige?"

The Gingrich mock fest began with the announcement itself, which said he was officially throwing his hat into the 2012 Presidential ring and linked to a YouTube video containing his first campaign ad. Stewart couldn't get over how low-budget the video was, with its solid grey background and music that sounds like it should be in the background of a Sega Genesis game:

"Who thought it was a good idea to do your 'state of the art' campaign computer launch in a Sears photo booth with a Casio accompaniment?"

Next, Stewart had to address that Gingrich didn't make his announcement on TV like everyone else. Does his social media use mean he thinks he's young and hip? Stewart assured him that "no matter how clever your hashtags be," it's just not going to work because he's "not cool."

"You're what might be known to your generation as 'a square,'" Stewart said, before suggesting Gingrich might have been better off announcing his candidacy via SuDoku puzzle.

Stewart indeed had a field day with Gingrich, but it wasn't all negative (however he does work in a hilarious chyron of Gingrich as the beige-inducing superhero). Stewart cited the show "20/20"'s failed attempt at appealing to the young demographic as a warning, and encouraged him to put down the phony Twitter account and embrace who he really is: a Smartypants.

Watch the full segment below, including Stewart's advice on where Gingrich should really be seeking votes.

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Comments

[kyrose777]

03:56 PM on 05/16/2011

Big goals for such a little man, Newt. Go hook up with some kind of different reality because yours is not working. Like me, you ain't cool.

[capt black]

02:04 PM on 05/16/2011

No matter what new media the Repubs use, their ideals are the same old dusty ones they try to push on the american people!

[LeemanBrothaz]

11:57 AM on 05/16/2011

WALL STREET bankers respond with music video "Greed Is Good" which is a political satire on the financial crisis - http://money.cnn.com/video/news/2011/05/13/n_leeman_brothaz_wall_st.cnnmoney/

[brhurdle]

04:26 PM on 05/15/2011

Oh NO! Does this mean that Jon Stewart won't be voting for Newt? How will humanity survive this event?

[makestotalsense]

06:42 PM on 05/15/2011

I'm pretty sure there will be a great deal of people not voting for Newt and humanity will be just fine.

[prestonsturges]

12:29 AM on 05/16/2011

Amen!

[PhillyKing]

03:52 PM on 05/16/2011

i find it funny that the 'family values' and 'defense of marriage' crowd find it so easy to vote for these hypocrites year after year... any person that claims 'family values' and votes for newt is a LIAR, plain and simple.

[John Wampler]

04:13 PM on 05/15/2011

Notice how Stewert is such a smarmy liberal, yet never has anything productive to offer to get us out of the mess we are in?

[irmsjags]

04:29 PM on 05/15/2011

What part of this don't you right-wingers get? He's a COMEDIAN!

[Peter Heffernan]

08:35 PM on 05/15/2011

I'll tell you what he offers that's productive: respectful, thoughtful conversation with every guest, whether he agrees with them or considers them lunatics. You and Mitch McConnell could take a lesson.

[screwitall]

04:05 PM on 05/15/2011

Newt should have dresses in a prison uniform, in line at the IRS paying the tax money he owes the U.S.A.

[Eric Graff]

03:46 PM on 05/15/2011

Newt the nazi!

[irmsjags]

04:32 PM on 05/15/2011

That's not right. Newt's a lot of things, but only nazis are nazis and no one compares to Hitler but Hitler. It's disrespectful to the people and families that sacrificed in WWII to compare anyone to the nazis or Hitler, no matter how distasteful or repugnant they are. Whether it's the left or the right that does it, it's wrong.

[prestonsturges]

12:13 AM on 05/16/2011

Exactly!

[ware]

04:42 PM on 05/16/2011

It's ironic but I think "nazi" broke the threshold into the mainstream vocabulary, mostly as a funny word...Remember the "Soup nazi" ?

[Roses]

03:45 PM on 05/15/2011

Jon Stewart is so funny and says such true things.
Politicians should really take notice.

[Greg 135]

01:21 AM on 05/16/2011

As should the media and news outlets.

[antipodal2u]

03:38 PM on 05/15/2011

When these guys were in thier prime and the middle aged now were americas youth, young people didnt vote so these GOP'rs had a chance since middle class america being mostly white and middle aged were the only ones voting. Minorities didnt vote. Why would/should they back then. NOW we have an african american president, youth today DOES vote and these once middle class/ Now seniors think the old way/ politics as usual still cuts it. Theyre finished. With youth and mminorities voting now middle-aged white america isnt the majority anymore. RIP GOP you had your run

[irmsjags]

03:50 PM on 05/15/2011

Don't be so sure, the GOP has adapted by learning how to get a message out in slogans and sound bites, something the Democrats haven't yet learned. Obama can go on for 10 minutes about offshore drilling, explaining the dangers to the environment and the lack of any real significance it would have on gas prices, but all Palin has to do is chant "Drill Baby Drill!" and her constituency gets a hard-on.

[antipodal2u]

04:00 PM on 05/15/2011

And what message do they continue to send? Cut medicare, the one message that cut thier throat

[David Jeffers]

03:34 PM on 05/15/2011

Are there really people laughing on this show or was it a laugh box controlled by the editor. I found absolutel nothing funny about anything Jon Stewart said in that piece and I love comedy. While I do find it interesting how Newt went with hip way to anounce his candidacy, I look forward to all the candidates tripping over themselves trying to be hip...

[irmsjags]

03:59 PM on 05/15/2011

He won 14 Emmy awards, so it seems like quite a few people think he's pretty funny.

[David Jeffers]

04:29 PM on 05/15/2011

Awards do not mean much to me. I think that they are an overated bunch of overpaid celebrities patting each other on the back...As far as funny, the piece I saw was not funny at all...in my opinion, and I love comedy.

[Fritzwood]

12:35 PM on 05/16/2011

people are really laughing....now you have your answer

[rg27603]

03:27 PM on 05/15/2011

One more biased article by a left biased supposedly news site.

[irmsjags]

03:39 PM on 05/15/2011

Jon Stewart is not a news site, nor does he pretend to be (like Hannity and O'Reilly do). He's a comedian. I understand the confusion since the comedians on FOX news try to portray themself as a new site.

[Greg 135]

01:22 AM on 05/16/2011

Great reply to an uninformed post.

[mayabelle1107]

03:01 PM on 05/15/2011

Jon Liebowitz is nothing more than a semi-humorous teleprompter reader for the soros evil empire.

[clrush69]

03:24 PM on 05/15/2011

is that exactly how Fox wants you to say it?

[irmsjags]

03:56 PM on 05/15/2011

His last name is really Liebowitz and not Stewart? OK, I'm convinced! I wonder if Piyush Jindal and Willard Romney know about this.

[Greg 135]

01:23 AM on 05/16/2011

I have to see a birth certificate to believe any of it.

[dhayescharlotte]

02:48 PM on 05/15/2011

What do you expect from a Know it All Lefty and all his Know It All Liberal/Democrat buddies?
They've even sunk as low as to monitor everything we say so THEY can decide whether to post.....

[asaman53]

03:22 PM on 05/15/2011

You clown Republibaggers produce plenty of ammunition to have thrown back into your faces. Sink as low as Limbaugh, Beck, Colter, Palin, Huckaby (sp), need I go on? To get below that bunch, one would have to trench under neath them at the bottom of the ocean.

[MRITechnologist]

01:59 PM on 05/16/2011

What did he say that was wrong?

[smiz]

02:44 PM on 05/15/2011

Where do all these stupid people come from??????

[screwitall]

04:07 PM on 05/15/2011

Which stupid people , Newt, Donald, Mitt, or Jon

[flipwilson]

02:32 PM on 05/15/2011

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