'The disease is the same name as the lab!'

The Late Show With Stephen Colbert made its triumphant return to the Ed Sullivan Theater Monday, in entrance of a full-capacity, absolutely vaccinated viewers, welcoming former host of The Daily Show, Jon Stewart as the first visitor in the iconic theater in 15 months. While it made sense to debate the pandemic that stored the theater empty all that point, Colbert appeared stunned when Stewart revealed that he believes COVID-19 got here from a lab in Wuhan, China, a well-liked speaking level in conservative media.

“I think we owe a great debt of gratitude to science,” Stewart stated. “Science has, in many ways, helped ease the suffering of this pandemic, which was more than likely caused by science.”

“Do you mean perhaps there’s a chance that this was created in a lab?” Colbert requested. “A chance?” Stewart replied. “There’s a novel respiratory coronavirus overtaking Wuhan, China, what do we do? Oh, you know, who we could ask? The Wuhan novel respiratory coronavirus lab. The disease is the same name as the lab! That’s just a little too weird!”

Stewart went on to repeat this line of considering a number of instances all through the interview.

Chinese authorities have lengthy rejected the lab leak principle, standing by the declare that the coronavirus got here from bats. But Stewart isn’t shopping for it.

“There’s a coronavirus loose in Wuhan, how did that happen?” Stewart requested. “Maybe a bat flew into the cloaca of a Turkey and then it sneezed into my chili and now we all have coronavirus. Like, come on.”

But Colbert pushed again, providing a distinct standpoint.

“It could be possible that they have the lab in Wuhan to study the novel coronavirus diseases,” Colbert stated, “because in Wuhan there are a lot of novel coronavirus diseases because of the bat population there.”

Stewart later spoke about scientists, saying that they only don’t know when to give up. In truth, Stewart believes scientists will probably be liable for the finish of humanity.

“Here’s how I believe the world ends,” Stewart stated. “I say this to you in sincerity… the world ends, the last words man utters are somewhere in a lab, a guy goes, ‘Huh huh, it worked!’”

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