Stewart noted that he has a great debt of gratitude to science. He said science has in many ways helped ease the suffering of the pandemic, which was also more than likely caused by science.
"What are you saying? So, there is a chance that this [virus] was created in a lab?" Colbert bantered.
This was immediately responded to by Stewart with, "A chance?"
He then hysterically recited a dialogue with an imaginary person saying, "Oh my God, there is a novel respiratory coronavirus overtaking Wuhan, China. What do we do?" He comedically answered himself with: "Oh no, we can ask the Wuhan novel respiratory coronavirus lab." He argued that the disease is the same name as the laboratory. "That’s just a little too weird, don't you think?"
He continued by saying he "asked" a scientist how the virus spread to people. Stewart funnily answered himself again, "Well, a pangolin kissed a turtle?" He was on a roll as he continued saying "Maybe a bat flew in the cloaca of the turkey and then it sneezed into my chili and now we all have coronavirus."...<<<Read More>>>....
