On this week’s episode of “The Daily Show,” Jon Stewart poked fun at ABC pulling the latest season of “The Bachelorette” from its schedule amid the explosive fallout between would-be star Taylor Frankie Paul and her ex, Dakota Mortensen.
Stewart teed up the joke by outlining how “Trump’s America” has become a “dizzying, chaotic carnival ride.”
“It’s fucking madness out there,” Stewart said. “TSA lines longer than your trip, escalating threats in the Middle East, planes driving into trucks. The only thing giving me joy is looking forward to this season of ‘The Bachelorette.’ I mean, they got a strong, Mormon woman; she seems lovely. Hope that she finds — hold on, I am getting a call…..no!”
On March 19, a spokesperson for Disney Entertainment Television announced that the season would be shelved in a statement that read, “In light of the newly released video just surfaced today, we have made the decision to not move forward with the new season of ‘The Bachelorette’ at this time, and our focus is on supporting the family.”
The decision, which came days before the Season 22 premiere on March 22, followed the leak of a video showing Paul throwing stools at Mortensen while her child is close by in the room. A spokesperson for Paul issued this response to the video’s leak: “It’s sad to see the latest installment of his never-ending, desperate, attention-seeking, destructive campaign to harm Taylor without any regard for the consequences for their child. Releasing an old video, which conveniently omits context, on their son’s birthday is a reprehensible attempt to distract from his own behavior. Thankfully, the public has seen this act before and knows who he is and sadly, many will recognize this pattern of manipulation, both in his actions on the show, and from their own experiences.”
On March 16, Paul’s main reality show, “The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives,” paused filming due to a domestic violence investigation between Paul and Mortensen by the Draper City Police Department in Utah.
Watch the entire monologue below.
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