Jon Stewart To Anthony Weiner: 'Just Tell The Truth!' (VIDEO)

Every week on "The Daily Show," Jon Stewart rides the line between comedian and journalist, satirist and pundit. This week that line was even harder to define, as Stewart showed how conflicted he was about covering/mocking his close friend Rep Anthony Weiner's penis photo scandal.

With a little help from his above-the-shoulder "News Angel" Tom Brokaw and "Comedy Devil" Don Rickles, Stewart figured out a way to cover his old college buddy's embarrassing situation without giving it the full "Daily Show" political sex scandal treatment. Instead, Stewart gave his friend some advice with the help of a smooth R&B back-up singer.

"If you're sending pictures of your penis as bait for young women to follow you on Twitter, you've got to go," Stewart said. "But if you just had some junk shots on your computer?"

"Join the club," the R&B singer crooned.

Stewart asked Weiner to "help us help you" by coming clean about the photo so he can move on with important matters. Assuming he's telling the truth about not tweeting the photo himself, he just had to admit he either had the photo on his computer, or that he was pranked, not that he "can't say with certitude" whose equipment is in the shot.

All in all, Stewart wants to help his friend, not hurt him. So even though a Representative named Weiner tweeting a picture of a wiener is impossible not to mock, Stewart really just wants his friend to get out of the muck:

"I'm asking you, against my own interest as a comedian, just tell the truth!"

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Comments

[aphextwin07]

10:44 AM on 06/07/2011

hilarious!

[JHA in Texas]

08:16 AM on 06/07/2011

Another sex charged politician will do something stupid in the next few days and this story will be old non-news.

[Indaba]

09:24 PM on 06/06/2011

Good for Jon to take on this difficult situation - admirable.

[JoeDoorman]

07:41 PM on 06/06/2011

So much for comedy.
I always thought it was news.
It's great watching Stewart having trouble defending the "country club", which he is so a part of.
He's a Neo-Com... which is far worse then a Neo-Con, who can be easily spotted and ignored.

[Copeword]

07:06 PM on 06/06/2011

Heh, he did tell the truth. Another day of coverage ahead, and looking forward to it.

[derspado]

05:01 PM on 06/06/2011

Enjoy your "friends" company in his exile from the gaze of loving media people Jon.

[banker67]

11:00 AM on 06/06/2011

Oooo...mandatory audio commercials on Huffpost. Does Stewart know his fans must endure an audio harangue before his performances here? Time to bail out of this comedy section.

[blurredmolly]

01:04 PM on 06/06/2011

they do that at Comedy central too.

[kbcruzin]

09:38 AM on 06/06/2011

Correction on the article above:

'"Join the club," the R

[JohnSawyer]

07:20 AM on 06/06/2011

Railzey, you need to read this:

http://cannonfire.blogspot.com/2011/06/lies-just-never-stop-do-they.html

[El]

05:21 AM on 06/06/2011

There are so many aspects to this story, or as I see it, non-story. But be they all as they may, the thing that stands out for me (no pun intended, honestly) is that the pic in question is not even of his penis. Sure, there's a bulge, but the pic is of someone IN UNDERWEAR! I don't care about who might have sent it and to whom and for what reason. My lord, are we such puritans that now a pic of someone's drawers in enough to cause this much of a stir!?!?

[jemsabell]

09:40 PM on 06/05/2011

Hmmm - I accessed this from huffingtingpost.ca and still can't access the Jon Stewart clip (not available in Canada). Will the Canadian HuffPost be able to correct that? If not, isn't it censorship, even if it's corporate? Sigh....

[Brooke Steele]

01:23 PM on 06/05/2011

Wow - J. Stewart was hilarious, but from reading up on this, I find it very interesting how those two dudes (danstack and goatsred) predicted a "scandal" and then were the only ones to "see" the scandalous tweet. They also harassed the victim before the "scandal".

[JohnSawyer]

07:17 AM on 06/06/2011

That's Mike Stack, AKA goatsred, and Dan Wolfe (may not be his real name), AKA patriotusa76.

Yeah, these two guys (with others) seem to have planned the whole thing, communicating many of their plans to each other using their open Twitter accounts, etc. Not too bright they are. Dan Wolfe, in an attempt to exculpate himself in the past few days, even engaged in an online interview with someone who calls himself "FilmLadd", in which Wolfe relates a self-contradictory version of the sequence of events:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/06/04/982102/-Breitbarts-#TwitterhoaxWhat-We-Know-Now

[valuelines]

12:43 PM on 06/05/2011

My biggest LOL moment was when someone asked ' Is that thang yours' and Weiner said : 'I Wish'.

[annalrichard]

11:38 AM on 06/05/2011

I didn't see the picture of this Dude's private parts but I can assure everyone that if it had been long as a match, Mr. Weiner would have denied it was his. The truth wins in the end, as Jon Stewart states. I found the whole thing laughable to get a vote, Mr. Weiner. I wonder how a person can live with a name like Weiner, before they change their name, anyway. I'm a liberal, too!

[eddw88]

10:40 PM on 06/05/2011

Ask the governator about his last name.

[Fang1944]

10:10 AM on 06/05/2011

Why doesn't Weiner use the correct German pronunciation of his name? Then it would be vy-ner not wee-ner.

[Jackie Leigh]

12:36 AM on 06/06/2011

For some reason, the name Weiner is only pronounced "Wee-ner" on the East Coast. Weiner is also my last name, and I live on the West Coast, where it is always pronounced "Wy-ner".