Variety: The former “Daily Show” host spoke with the “Today” show’s Matt Lauer and Savannah Guthrie about his reaction to the C.K. exposé. “You give your friends the benefit of the doubt,” Stewart said. “I try to think of it in terms of, I’ve had friends who have compulsions and have done things — gambling, drinking, or drugs. And we lost some of them. Some of them have died. And you find yourself at a moment of, ‘Did I miss something? Could I have done more?’ In this situation, we all could have. So you feel anger at what he did to people.”
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With so many stories about celebrities committing atrocious acts of harassment coming out lately, it makes one start to think. Who else do I look to as a great comedian, actor, director who is really a dirt bag? Who do I know that has done similar things? Am I ignoring something right now that could lead to problems for someone else later on down the line? The problem with these questions that we ask ourselves is that there is no real way to answer them. Sure, you could keep an eye out for warning signs or things that just do not feel right, but no one will ever be able to do that with 100% accuracy. It is impossible to see who is a monster on the inside sometimes. They look like normal people, but there is something very wrong on going on in the inside. It is this kind of unknowability that makes news like this so crushing when it comes out. Kevin Spacey was one of my favorite actors and now I can not watch any of his work without cringing. The monsters around us hide in plain sight, only revealing themselves to a select unfortunate few.
I always looked up to Jon Stewart as a kind of idol or hero in a way for his comedic approach to calling out what was really going on in today’s world and I remember how sad my family and I were when he left the daily show. I also remember seeing Louis C K at a comedy show when I was probably too young to understand his jokes fully. Hearing now that he had sexually assault women only creates a stronger image of what I thought of him before, an arrogant white male. It is interesting to hear Jon Stewart's reflections on his friend’s actions and even admitting that men can be blind to what their other male friends can commit just because they never experience an instance where they see the true side of these men. It is also hard to hear that when confronted with information that Louis C K might not be as great as Jon Stewart thought, he tried to finesse his way around the conversation, probably in denial that his friend could do wrong.
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