Jon Stewart tearfully announces death of his dog Dipper on ‘The Daily Show’
Goodbye, old friend.
Jon Stewart got choked up on Monday’s episode of “” as he said that his family’s dog Dipper died.
The co♌median, 61, revealed that the three-legged pup passed away ℱSunday.
“He was ready. He was tired, but I wasn’t,” he said.
“And the family, we were all together,” he went on.ꦦ “Thank goodness we were all with him.”
ꩵStewart, alongside wife Tracey Stewart and their kids Maggie Rose, 18, and Nathan Thomas, 19, adopted Dipper from oꦡver 10 years ago.
His children baked cup𝐆cakes to help raise fundꦡs for the shelter when they were around 6 or 7 years old.
“S🌊o as a liꦯttle extra incentive, they brought out this 1-ish year old who —” Stewart recalled about meeting Dipper for the first time. “Got hit by a car in Brooklyn and lost his right leg.”
The talk show host added: “It was the perfect idea, they📖 put the dog in my lap. And we left that day feeling really good that we’d helped this great organization.”
“And we also left with this 1-ish year old brindle pit bull. We called him Dipper, and in a world of good boys, he was the best.”
Stewart sweetly recalled how Dipper “would wait” fo🧔r him to be finished taping his show over the years.
The New York native is back to hosting the Monday episodes of “The Daily Show,” while other celebrity guests sit behind the desk on Tuesdays to Thursdays.
He was previously the emcee of the satirical news program from 1999 unti🎃l 2015.
The “Big Daddy” actor then noted how Dipper met “actors and authors and presidents and kings” over the course of his long life.
“He did what the Taliban could not do, which is put a scare on ” he joked.
When the Pakistani activist, 26, “ she got a little scared of Dipper and ran away to backstage.
Yousafzai was shot by the Taliban in 2012 after she opposed their strict rules regarding female educat♈ion.
In his tear-filled closing remarks, Stewart told the audience of Dipper: “My wish for you is one day you find that dog, that one dog that just is the best.”
