--- title: Jon Stewart Returns to The Daily Show to Blast Congress description: He takes up the charge on funding for 9/11 first responders—once again canonical: https://time.com/4140206/jon-stewart-daily-show-congress-911/ author: Maya Rhodan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-12-08T13:43:15.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:00:47.957Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Watch Jon Stewart Return to 'The Daily Show' to Blast Congress og:description: He takes up the charge on funding for 9/11 first responders—once again og:url: https://time.com/4140206/jon-stewart-daily-show-congress-911/ 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: Watch Jon Stewart Return to 'The Daily Show' to Blast Congress twitter:description: He takes up the charge on funding for 9/11 first responders—once again twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch Jon Stewart Return to _The Daily Show_ to Blast Congress ## Video: Trevor Noah Talks What Its Like To Learn From Jon Stewart [Watch (HLS stream): Trevor Noah Talks What Its Like To Learn From Jon Stewart](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/SXk1NGQU.m3u8) (0:55)  _Published 2015-09-18. On "The Late Show," Trevor Noah talks about the pros and cons of democracy as well as what it's like to learn from Jon Stewart._ by [Maya Rhodan](https://time.com/author/maya-rhodan/) ## Maya Rhodan Dec 8, 2015 1:43 PM UTC by [Maya Rhodan](https://time.com/author/maya-rhodan/) ## Maya Rhodan Dec 8, 2015 1:43 PM UTC Former _Daily Show_ host Jon Stewart [made an appearance on his old Comedy Central show](http://www.hulu.com/watch/880613) Monday to take aim at members of Congress who he said are dragging their feet over something he’s long championed: health care funding for 9/11 first responders. Stewart, donning a gray t-shirt and snow white beard, blasted lawmakers for not automatically renewing a bill that provides health care coverage and compensation to the first responders who worked at the sight of the World Trade Center after the Sept. 11 attacks. Many first responders later fell ill or died as a result of working on the sight, where chemicals and toxins filled the air. The bill, called the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act , expired in part in September 2015; another part of the act will expire next October. “These first responders, many sick with cancers and pulmonary disease, have had to travel at their own expense to Washington, D.C., hundreds of times to plead for our government to do the right thing,” Stewart said. “My only conclusion is the people of Congress are not as good of people as the people who are first responders” Watch the full clip above. ### See Jon Stewart's Career Over the Years  Jon Stewart takes the reins as anchor of The Daily Show in 1999. Comedy Central/Everett  Stewart gets a cameo as Kevin Gerrity in the 1999 Adam Sandler movie Big Daddy. Columbia  Jay Leno interviews Jon Stewart on The Tonight Show With Jay Leno in 2000. NBC/Getty Images  Stewart plays Marion Frank Stokes in the 2002 black comedy Death to Smoochy Warner Bros.  Jon Stewart and his team win the first of many Emmys for The Daily Show in 2003. Chris Weeks—FilmMagic/Getty Images  Jon Stewart hosts the 78th Academy Awards in 2006. Academy of Motion Picture Arts—WireImage/Getty Images  Stewart has a cameo as himself on The Simpsons in 2008 in the episode "E Pluribus Wiggum." Fox  Steven Colbert and Jon Stewart host the Rally To Restore Sanity And/Or Fear on the National Mall on Oct. 30, 2010 in Washington, DC. Win McNamee—Getty Images  Jon Stewart interviews President Barack Obama on The Daily Show at the Harman Center for the Arts in Washington, DC, Oct. 26, 2010. Jim Watson—AFP/Getty Images  Jon Stewart speaks at the 51st USO Armed Forces Gala & Gold Medal Dinner on Dec. 13, 2012 in New York City. Michael Loccisano—Getty Images  Stewart makes his directorial debut in the 2014 drama Rosewater. Open Road Films  Jon Stewart announces his retirement for the end of 2015. 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