Jon Stewart Rips Jerry Sandusky On 'The Daily Show' (VIDEO)

It was quite unexpected when NBC announced on Monday afternoon that former Penn State defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky, who was arrested over a week ago and charged with sexually abusing eight young boys over 15 years, was granting an interview to Bob Costas on NBC's "Rock Center." During this telephone interview, Sandusky admitted to showering with young boys while maintaining that he was innocent of the sexual assault. Jon Stewart didn't hold back in his reaction during the second segment of Tuesday night's "The Daily Show."

After suggesting that it may not be the wisest decision to "literally phone your defense" when facing charges of raping children, Stewart eviscerated Sandusky for his halting, delayed response to Costas' question regarding his sexual attraction to underage boys.

"Am I sexually attracted to underage boys? Sexually attracted? You know, I enjoy young people. I love to be around them, But, no, I'm not sexually attracted to young boys," Sandusky told Costas.

Stewart was appalled that Sandusky hesitated so much with his answer to this question.

"You can't even bring yourself to lie emphatically," Stewart said. "'Good God no! Sexually attracted? I'm not!' It's like in that phone conversation, you're actually fighting the urge to come clean."

Stewart, who compared the insular culture of Penn State football to the Catholic Church last week, then showed the clip of Sandusky refuting Mike McQueary's claim that he witnessed the former coach raping a boy in 2002 by describing what transpired as merely "horsing around."

"First of all, good on Bob Costas. Nice job. Second of all, horseplay? Are you f***ing kidding us? Horseplay? You know, horseplay is wrestling your friend out of a pillow fort. Throwing your nephew into a pool, various other things, that would never be mistaken for rape"

Before cutting to a commercial, Stewart takes one last jab at the ex-coach, and his lawyer, by saying that a former defensive coordinator should have "coordinated a better defense."

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Comments

[Steve Huge]

07:41 PM on 11/27/2011

sandusky interview parody... very funny.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBJnuKvGrrE

[splintercottage]

11:17 AM on 11/17/2011

Another liberal plot. Sandusky simply took off his clothes to pay with the kiddies. Perfectly understandable.

[Joe Gould]

09:33 AM on 11/17/2011

Ah, Jon. Thanks. Yet, in the interest of comediojournalistic accuracy Jon should begin referring to the school as Ped State and to the foundation as Second 'Phile Foundation.

[Jude Eckenrode]

12:31 PM on 11/17/2011

Good one Joe! Moron!

[Joe Gould]

01:34 PM on 11/17/2011

Hey, Jude. Don't make it bad. Take a Ped State and make it laughter! Remember to let Jerry into your heart, then you can start to worry deeper. Deeper. Really deeper.... And after you get it, then you can borrow someone's book of epithets (you obviously don't have one of your own) and look up something other than a platitude to write in disgust as you cobble together another wry reply. Maybe you should try typing with both hands, even if it means that you have to put down your crayon.

[bend time]

08:39 AM on 11/17/2011

Yay Jon Stewart. And he is not my point in this post.
Oh oh ohhhhh. More problems with contractions, HP.
You're = YOU ARE.
PLEASE STOP WITH THE SILLY GRAMMATICAL ERRORS. NO EXCUSE NO EXCUSE AND YES IT MATTERS. NO EDITORIAL INTEGRITY?? You don't CARE ABOUT ERRORS?? How embarrassing for you.
" ...it's like YOUR fighting the urge to come clean" (Freudian slips abound n this case: speaking about showers, 'the urge to come clean.' :) ).
it is "YOU ARE fighting the urge...". you're. not YOUR. We learned contractions in 4th grade. I need a job; let me edit the articles for 'journalists' who don't understand elementary school grammar.

[Joe Gould]

09:34 AM on 11/17/2011

IOKIYAR

[Janet Root Wetherell]

07:25 AM on 11/17/2011

Ilike that Jon tells it like it is..this man needs to go down..and do just attempt to blow this off as "fooling around" well that is just plain dispicable..these kids will never be the same and will never get over what this creep did..my heart goes out to these children..this man needs to go to prison and be someones "mate"..

[Bibulus]

03:12 AM on 11/17/2011

The Wookie defense has a better shot at acquittal.

[sifc33]

05:49 AM on 11/18/2011

HAHA... nice.. the Wookie Defense is epic... I'm always amazed when I make SP references and no one gets them. It's sad actually.

[ItsJustCommonSense]

02:47 AM on 11/17/2011

Creepy guy club....best line ever. Thank you, Jon.

[MrWebster]

02:06 AM on 11/17/2011

I understand now why Paterno was fired. He helped protect an unrepetent rapist. I now understand the revulsion people have over Penn State's enabling of this criminal. Seriously, the police should investigate him to determine if his criminality went beyond pedophelia.

[V3GAdigi1]

03:05 AM on 11/17/2011

it took you this long to understand WHY Paterno was fired?

[MrWebster]

03:49 AM on 11/17/2011

for some reason i wasn't following this 24/7. at this point, you may want to do the same.

[pkymarfo]

04:05 AM on 11/17/2011

at least MrWebster got there.

[voodoo8]

12:42 AM on 11/17/2011

"Horsing around"
When you're painted into a corner, try to minimize; give it a cute name.

[helmboy]

01:24 AM on 11/17/2011

then examine your conscience if you can find it and it will tell you.

[SnapShots]

02:25 AM on 11/17/2011

Well then we surely won't come to you for logical perspective on anything.

[jeito]

12:30 AM on 11/17/2011

So if "showering" with children is not OK, why was it OK for Michael Jackson to sleep with children? Will Sandusky use a similar defense?

[brux]

01:05 AM on 11/17/2011

Uh, maybe because no one ever said they saw Michael Jackson raping anyone.

[pjlowry]

04:43 AM on 11/17/2011

Just his staff and other various witnesses. Prosecutors only called about half a dozen people who witnessed sexual assaults that took place in Jackson's Neverland Ranch to the stand. Stay in denial there Brux... whatever.

[jdiary]

11:29 PM on 11/16/2011

I just learned that the "Protect Our Children Act" drafted by Joe Biden in 2008,which would help prevent cases like this, still has not been passed by Congress:

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=s110-1738

It's bad enough that Congress doesn't care about getting Americans back to work but the least they could do is protect kids from predators like Sandusky.

[bobby2677]

12:36 AM on 11/17/2011

Does Congress care about anything except making the rich in this country richer.

[OhGeeze]

12:54 AM on 11/17/2011

The Link shows that it passed and GW signed it.

[MenInMyTown]

11:04 PM on 11/16/2011

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[MrEthiopian]

10:57 PM on 11/16/2011

Pedophiles that are found truly guilty should be executed.

I know I going to get allot a grief from this statement, but if an individual is proven to be a child rapist DNA+ Video or + multiple independent reports, than I don't care if that person can be rehabilitated, I think that person has raped an innocent child needs to be killed, I also think our present death by injection is too lenient , we need to bring back the electric chair or hanging, it should be the choice of the child or parent what type of execution is preformed.

[RedDonnaAnn]

10:17 PM on 11/16/2011

Where was this piece in Sandusky's interview??? It's from an article about Amendola's sexual relationship with his 16 year old employee, whom he impregnated when he was 49.

""I didn't go around seeking out every young person for sexual needs that I've helped," Sandusky said. "There are many that I didn't have - I hardly had any contact with who I helped in many, many ways."

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/college/jerry-sandusky-s-lawyer-joe-amendola-a-16-year-old-client-pregnant-married-article-1.977873#ixzz1dveHtv2O