10 years ago, at the height of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and The Colbert Report on Comedy Central, Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert held a massive rally in Washington D.C. in an attempt to mitigate hyperbolic partisan division that had festered during the George W. Bush administration. Stewart had termed it "The Rally to Restore Sanity" and hoped it would encourage a return to reasoned discussion of real issues while also being a fun comedy and music festival.
Colbert, who was still firmly in satirical character as right-wing blowhard "Stephen Colbert," responded by organizing a "March to Keep Fear Alive." Eventually, the two combined forces and it was called "The Rally to Restore Sanity And/Or Fear."
Friday night on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Stewart showed up to commemorate that event and, in light of all that's happened in the "271 years" that Trump has been president, sadly concede to Colbert that "You won. It was a shut-out. A shellacking. I had no idea fear was that strong.