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Jon Stewart is literally speechless over Mike Huckabee's Holocaust comments

It's hard to believe that anything could leave the notoriously silver-tongued Jon Stewart with nothing to say — then again, it could be argued that it's hard to believe a lot of what's happened recently among 2016 U.S. presidential candidates.

In a biting segment on The Daily Show Monday evening — one of his last ever as the long-running TV program's host — Stewart decided to address what many have referred to as the "Trump-ification" of the upcoming election.

And he slam-dunked his message without uttering more than a single world.



"Hey!" shouted Stewart at the top of the clip, greeting viewers with a smile before rolling some news clips focused on Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee, who likened Obama's nuclear deal with Iran to the Holocaust on Sunday.

"This president's foreign policy is the most feckless in American history," Huckabee is heard saying in an audio clip from the controversial radio interview. "It is so naive that he would trust the Iranians. By doing so, he will take the Israelis and march them to the door of the oven."

Normally, this is where Stewart would dish out his usual brand of witty criticism.

What he did instead, however, was react to the clip through a series of facial expressions, noises and theatrical gestures — a shtick he kept up between clips of politicians denouncing Huckabee's "oven door" remark and of Huckabee refusing to apologize for it.

Even as footage rolled showing the former Arkansas governor dissing Beyoncé, promoting fried chicken joints, and saying he would have pretended to be transgender in high school to shower with girls after gym class, Stewart kept mum.

Aside from that one opening "Hey," in fact, the typically verbose host managed to deliver his entire segment without saying anything.

Had Huckabee's most recent headline-making comment actually left Stewart speechless?

Not really, according to the host, who explained at the end of the episode that his delivery was linked to a long-running joke among cast and crew members.

"For the past — I don't know — 15 or 16 years, we've had a running joke that I could really do the show without saying anything — that I could just make stupid faces and grunt," he said. "With two weeks to go, we thought, 'Yeah, yeah, why not?' So that's what we did. And I realized I've been working way too hard."

After 16 years on Comedy Central's The Daily Show, Stewart will host his final episode of the parody newscast Aug. 6.