1997: Jon Stewart Cajoles the Late Senator Kennedy
Jon Stewart’s 1997 speech took place before he was the host of The Daily Show, but the young comic made an impression with jokes like this zinger about the late senator Edward Kennedy. “I love Senator Kennedy. I think that guy’s the coolest. Although I do think he has kind of an enormous head. Honestly, it doesn’t even look like a head. It looks more like a container for a head.”
After one of his jokes received a particularly…

