Video: Jon Stewart Delivers Jokeless Monologue in the Wake of Charleston Shooting
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The 'Daily Show' host gets serious as he reacts to the shooting at a church in South Carolina that killed nine people, calling it 'a terrorist attack.'

AceShowbiz - Jon Stewart was not in the mood for making jokes when hosting "The Daily Show" on Thursday night, June 18 in the wake of the deadly shooting in Charleston, South Carolina on Wednesday. "I didn't do my job today. I apologize," he told his audience before explaining how the tragedy left him humorless.

"I've got nothing for you in terms of jokes and sounds, because of what happened in South Carolina. Maybe if I wasn't nearing the end of the run or this wasn't such a common occurrence, maybe I could have pulled out of the spiral. But I didn't. And so I honestly have nothing other than just sadness once again that we have to peer into the abyss of the depraved violence we do to each other and the nexus of a gaping racial wound that will not heal but we pretend doesn't exist."

He continued, "I'm confident though that by acknowledging it - by staring into that and seeing it for what it is - we still won't do jacksh**t. Yeah. That's us. That's the part that blows my mind. I don't want to get into the political argument. ... What blows my mind is the disparity of response between when we think people that are foreign are going to kill us and us killing ourselves."

He pointed out how ironic it was that in the country, which has spent "trillions of dollars and thousands of American lives" to keep its citizens safe, nine people were shot in a church. "What are you going to do about that? 'Hey, what are you going to do. Crazy is crazy is, right?' That's the part I cannot for the life of me wrap my head around. And you know it. You know it's going to go down the same path," he added.

He went on expressing his thought, "I heard someone on the news say, 'Tragedy has visited the church.' This wasn't a tornado. This was racist. I hate to use the pun, but this one was black and white. There's no nuance here. But we're going to keep pretending. We are steeped in that culture in this country and we refuse to recognize it." Calling it "a terrorist attack," Stewart said, "Al Qaeda, ISIS, they're not s**t compared to the damage we can do to ourselves on a regular basis."

On Wednesday, a white man believed to be 21-year-old Dylann Roof entered the historical Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston during a weekly bible study class and opened fire. Nine were killed in the incident, including one who died at the hospital. According to a relative of the church's pastor, state Sen. Clementa Pinckney, Roof told his victims, "I have to do it. You rape our women and you're taking over our country. And you have to go."

Stars have taken to social media to react to the shocking news, including Taylor Swift who tweeted, "My heart dropped to the floor. Charleston... This is an unbearable loss of lives and innocence." Others like Kerry Washington, Mandy Moore and Zendaya Coleman asked people to pray for the victims' families.

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