TORONTO – Allegations that a video exists showing someone who could be Mayor Rob Ford smoking what could be crack cocaine are now fodder for late-night talk shows.
Jon Stewart, host of The Daily Show lambasted the mayor on Tuesday.
“You’ve got to wonder: Is this dude on crack?” Stewart said. “Don’t judge him: Maybe he’s cleaning up the city by smoking all the crack in it. You’re next, prostitution rings!”
The segment also included an appearance by the show’s so-called “senior Canadian Correspondents” Samantha Bee and Jason Jones who joked that smoking crack is the country’s “national heritage” and the “driver of the economy.”
Jimmy Kimmel also used the latest allegations as fodder on his show and interviewed an impersonator.
But it wasn’t just late-night television hosts who mocked the mayor: Infamous shock-jock Howard Stern also ridiculed Ford.
“He’s like, around Chris Christie’s size. Doesn’t look like a guy who’s been smoking crack,” Robin Quivers, Stern’s co-host said.
“I thought crack addicts were skinny?” Stern asked in reply.
Last week, the Toronto Star and Gawker both alleged that a video exists of what could be Ford smoking crack with drug dealers in Rexdale.
Global News has not viewed the video and cannot verify its authenticity.
VIDEO: Rob Ford used as fodder on American talk shows.
Ford has called the allegations “ridiculous” but that hasn’t stopped the accusations from making headlines internationally.
U.K. newspaper The Guardian wrote about the allegations on Friday.
Dan Amira, for New York magazine, wrote a long piece entitled “20 things worth knowing about Toronto’s crack-smoking mayor, Rob Ford.”
“But if you were familiar with Ford, you might not even be that surprised. For the uninitiated, here are the twenty most important things to know about Rob Ford,” Amira wrote.
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