--- description: Jon Stewart couldn't find anything to joke about on The Daily Show when he talked about Eric Garner's death. title: Watch Jon Stewart Weigh In On the Eric Garner Case image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5735cf2d96050a87/69876c9035ba6fbec4c05bce/jon-stewart.jpg?branch=production&width=1920&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Watch Jon Stewart Weigh In On the Eric Garner Case  by [Tessa Berenson](/author/tessa-berenson/)  ## Tessa Berenson Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Dec 4, 2014 1:15 PM CUT   by [Tessa Berenson](/author/tessa-berenson/)  ## Tessa Berenson Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Dec 4, 2014 1:15 PM CUT Jon Stewart couldn’t find anything to joke about on _The Daily Show_ when he talked about Eric Garner. Garner was killed after being put in a chokehold by a cop, and a grand jury [declined to indict the officer Wednesday](http://time.com/3616780/eric-garner-chokehold-new-york-staten-island/ "undefined"), sparking national outrage. “If comedy is tragedy plus time, I need more f—king time,” Stewart said. “We are definitely not living in a post-racial society,” he continued. “And I bet there are a lot of people out there wondering how much of a society we are living in at all.” Watch the full clip here. [**The Daily Show**](http://thedailyshow.cc.com/ "undefined") Get More: [Daily Show Full Episodes](http://thedailyshow.cc.com/full-episodes/ "undefined"),[Indecision Political Humor](http://www.comedycentral.com/indecision "undefined"),[The Daily Show on Facebook](http://www.facebook.com/thedailyshow "undefined") _Read next:_ [_Ferguson Was the Spark — Eric Garner Is the Fire_](http://time.com/3617369/eric-garner-grand-jury-protests/?xid=time%5Freadnext "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3617737/jon-stewart-eric-garner-daily-show/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3617737/jon-stewart-eric-garner-daily-show/"},"headline":"Watch Jon Stewart Weigh In On the Eric Garner Case","datePublished":"2014-12-04T13:15:19.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T02:34:14.759Z","description":"The comedian took a sober tone talking about Garner's death","url":"https://time.com/3617737/jon-stewart-eric-garner-daily-show/","keywords":["Television","Comedy"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5735cf2d96050a87/69876c9035ba6fbec4c05bce/jon-stewart.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Tessa Berenson","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5735cf2d96050a87/69876c9035ba6fbec4c05bce/jon-stewart.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Jon Stewart","caption":"","creditText":"","representativeOfPage":true}],"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/3617737/jon-stewart-eric-garner-daily-show/","name":"Watch Jon Stewart Weigh In On the Eric Garner Case"}}]}] ```