<p>Comedian Jon Stewart said that watching comedian-turned-Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/shop/products/i-need-ammunition-t-shirt">face down the Russian invasion</a> of his country was a bit like &#8220;watching Shecky Greene&#8221; — a Las Vegas nightclub comedian in the 1950s and 1960s — &#8220;transform into Winston Churchill.&#8221;</p>
<p>Stewart, speaking with writers Robby Slowik and Rob Christensen during Friday&#8217;s episode of his podcast, &#8220;The Problem with Jon Stewart,&#8221; made the comparison after joking that comedians were often noted for their bravado — but not necessarily their actual bravery.</p>
<p>&#8220;Boy, oh, we are comedians and we know the general brand of cowardice that runs through our business and the, you know, that fake braggadocio that comes from standing on stage and heck — you know, having a heckler and destroying him with a microphone,&#8221; Stewart began.</p>
<p>&#8220;What this dude is doing &#8230; it is incredibly moving,&#8221; Stewart continued. &#8220;I mean it&#8217;s — we&#8217;re watching Shecky Greene into Churchill. Like his grace and &#8230; What a terrible time to kind of notice the real spine of this country. I wish it was not in such terrible circumstances.&#8221;</p>
<p>Stewart went on to note that the people of Ukraine had close cultural ties with the people of Russia even if they didn&#8217;t share a language and leadership.</p>
<p>&#8220;It it, you know, New Jersey attacking Staten Island,&#8221; he added. &#8220;I mean it&#8217;s just the weirdest, you know, there&#8217;s so much shared history. And I — we&#8217;ve never seen something like this in our modern era of — listen. No one&#8217;s going to excuse the larger countries and some of the imperialist adventures we go on, and some of the false justifications we make for it, but generally there will be a period of attempt to paper over bald nationalism or crass economic interests with some high-minded rhetoric about something.&#8221;</p>
<p>Stewart then addressed Russian President Vladimir Putin, who he said was <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/heres-why-putin-invaded-ukraine-and-how-he-just-shattered-the-world-order/">approaching the invasion</a> in a very different manner.</p>
<p>&#8220;Putin was just like, &#8216;Yes, we&#8217;re going to go in and kill everybody.&#8217; You&#8217;re just like, wait, what?&#8221; he continued. &#8220;It&#8217;s such a bizarre throwback.&#8221;</p>
<p>But it was really <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/u-s-ready-to-evacuate-ukraine-president-zelensky-so-hes-not-captured-or-killed-he-refuses-to-go/">Zelensky&#8217;s response</a> to Putin that Stewart thought was the most interesting part of the ongoing situation.</p>
<p>&#8220;I sort of keep thinking of the comic&#8217;s table at the Cellar and the idea that someone from that little round table has been forced into this incredible feat of courage and statesmanship, and I sort of imagine, you know, when you&#8217;re sitting around the comic&#8217;s table and everybody&#8217;s telling their horror stories, like, &#8216;I once opened at a Fuddruckers and there wasn&#8217;t even a — people just kept coming in and using the f***in&#8217; fixings bar.&#8217; And like, Zelensky&#8217;s at the table, you know, and you&#8217;re all telling your horror stories of gigs and things and he&#8217;s just like, &#8216;Uh, I was attacked by the third largest army in the entire world.'&#8221;</p>
<p><strong>Watch Stewart&#8217;s full comments here:</strong></p>
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