Jon Stewart Mocks Conservative Backlash Over Bad Bunny’s Halftime Show

On this week’s episode of The Daily Show, host Jon Stewart took aim at the outrage from conservative commentators over Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl Halftime Show.

Stewart opened with jokes praising Bad Bunny’s performance, calling it energetic, joyful, and packed with surprises. He joked that Bad Bunny “did everything,” from hosting a wedding to stopping mid-concert like a public service announcement. Stewart said the show was fun, colorful, and full of life.

Then the mood shifted.

The show played a clip of conservative commentator Benny Johnson, who called the performance “the single worst halftime show in NFL history.”

Stewart responded with sarcasm, saying that for some Americans, everything must be judged through a strict political lens. He joked that this worldview clearly does not include knowing Spanish — or “where the biblioteca is.”

Later, Stewart showed clips from Newsmax hosts who argued that a halftime show performed mostly in Spanish was “not unifying” and even “divided” the country.

That argument didn’t sit well with Stewart.

“Why is it the Super Bowl halftime performer’s job to unify the country?” Stewart asked. He pointed out that there is already someone whose actual job is to bring Americans together — the president. Stewart then asked what that person had done to unify the nation.

The show cut to a report from NBC News showing President Donald Trump’s reaction on Truth Social. Trump called the performance “absolutely terrible” and claimed that “nobody understands a word this guy is saying.”

Stewart fired back with more jokes. He mocked the idea that no one understands Spanish and joked that Trump seemed to think Bad Bunny was the only Spanish speaker in the world. Stewart also took a jab at conservatives who criticized the show for not being “unifying,” saying many of them only recently learned that Puerto Rico is part of the United States.

Stewart ended the segment by highlighting what he sees as the real issue: cultural diversity being treated as a political threat. To him, Bad Bunny’s performance wasn’t divisive — it was simply a celebration that didn’t fit into a narrow idea of what America should look or sound like.

As Stewart made clear, sometimes a halftime show is just a halftime show — not a political test.