--- description: “Are you a blame America first?” the show host asks his former boss from the Daily Show title: Jon Stewart's Patriotism Questioned On the Colbert Report image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Watch Stephen Colbert Question Jon Stewart's Patriotism  by [Denver Nicks](/author/denver-nicks/)  ## Denver Nicks Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Nov 21, 2014 12:42 PM CUT  by [Denver Nicks](/author/denver-nicks/)  ## Denver Nicks Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Nov 21, 2014 12:42 PM CUT Television worlds collided Thursday when Jon Stewart [appeared](http://thecolbertreport.cc.com/video-playlists/15kz6h/the-colbert-report-11028-highlights/vbi9v5 "undefined") as a guest on Daily Show alumni Stephen Colbert’s show, The Colbert Report, to promote his new film _Rosewater_. “How does it feel to know that your entire career could have been shouted into a sock and thrown over an overpass?” Colbert says, needling his old boss. Colbert calls Stewart his “friend and nemesis.” “Rather than killing everyone else what if we were to…coexist with them in some kind of fashion,” Stewart asks the reactionary conservative Colbert. “You mean like the bumper sticker?” asks Colbert. Colbert praised _Rosewater_, a film about a journalist jailed in Iran after doing an interview with a Daily Show corespondent. “It’s a beautiful film and that offends me. Why is it that you can do your show,” Colbert says, “and you do it well, and now you’re doing something else well.” _Read next:_ [_Jon Stewart Admits He Wants to Rip Off Benedict Cumberbatch’s Clothes_](http://time.com/3594529/benedict-cumberbatch-jon-stewart-daily-show/?xid=time%5Freadnext "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3599300/jon-stewart-stephen-colbert/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3599300/jon-stewart-stephen-colbert/"},"headline":"Watch Stephen Colbert Question Jon Stewart's Patriotism","datePublished":"2014-11-21T12:42:19.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T11:37:08.374Z","description":"“Are you a blame America first?” the show host asks his former boss from the Daily Show","url":"https://time.com/3599300/jon-stewart-stephen-colbert/","keywords":["Iran","Television","Comedy","stephen colbert","Jon Stewart","Daily Show"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Denver Nicks","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/denver-nicks/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","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":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3599300/jon-stewart-stephen-colbert/","name":"Watch Stephen Colbert Question Jon Stewart's Patriotism"}}]}] ```