--- title: The Daily Show: Arby's Bids Farewell to Jon Stewart description: The fast-food chain wished a fond farewell to their long-time frenemy canonical: https://time.com/3987302/arbys-jon-stewart-the-daily-show/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-08-06T15:05:35.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:23:07.512Z og:title: Arby's Gets The Last Laugh On Jon Stewart and 'The Daily Show' og:description: The fast-food chain wished a fond farewell to their long-time frenemy og:url: https://time.com/3987302/arbys-jon-stewart-the-daily-show/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Arby's Gets The Last Laugh On Jon Stewart and 'The Daily Show' twitter:description: The fast-food chain wished a fond farewell to their long-time frenemy twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Arby's Gets The Last Laugh In Farewell to Jon Stewart and _The Daily Show_ by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Aug 6, 2015 3:05 PM UTC by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Aug 6, 2015 3:05 PM UTC Last night, fast food chain Arby’s bid farewell to its best frenemy — _The Daily Show_ host Jon Stewart. Stewart has frequently used the restaurant chain as a punchline on his show, calling them everything from “a dare for your colon” to “shock and awe for your bowels.” Over the past decade Stewart has even aired brutal fake tag lines like “Arby’s: Technically it’s food,” “Arby’s: Isn’t there something else we can eat?” and “Arby’s: You think pain and grief are hard to digest.” While most businesses would revel in the fact that Stewart’s run with _The Daily Show_ is ending and he could no longer use the restaurant as the target of his jokes, Arby’s got the last laugh. The burger chain put together a supercut of Stewart’s harshest words about the restaurant and aired it during one of the final installments of Stewart’s _The Daily Show_ while the _Golden Girls’_ theme song “Thank You For Being A Friend” played. It was a fitting farewell from one frenemy to another. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3987302/arbys-jon-stewart-the-daily-show/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3987302/arbys-jon-stewart-the-daily-show/"},"headline":"Arby's Gets The Last Laugh In Farewell to Jon Stewart and The Daily Show","datePublished":"2015-08-06T15:05:35.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:23:07.512Z","description":"The fast-food chain wished a fond farewell to their long-time frenemy","url":"https://time.com/3987302/arbys-jon-stewart-the-daily-show/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Television","The Daily Show","Advertisement","Jon Stewart"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3987302/arbys-jon-stewart-the-daily-show/","name":"Arby's Gets The Last Laugh In Farewell to Jon Stewart and The Daily Show"}}]}] ```