Jon Stewart Remembers ‘Repulsive’ Blunder Throughout First Date With His Spouse

Jon Stewart’s first date together with his spouse was almost a complete bust, however “two shots” have been all it took for issues to do a 180.

“When she gets nervous, she gets very quiet and when I get nervous, I get the opposite,” the comic stated of his spouse, Tracey McShane, on the “Strike Force Five” podcast.

Stewart recalled sharpening off “two giant burritos, hers and mine,” throughout their first date at a Mexican joint.

He stated she was so quiet that he was satisfied she “not only didn’t like me, but found me repulsive.”

“I apparently nauseated her, she would not touch her food, so I threw it all down,” he stated.

Earlier than giving up on the night, Stewart instructed they cease in at a close-by bar.

“Two shots and she relaxes,” he recalled. “Once she started talking and how funny and smart she was? Oh my god.”

Stephen Colbert, one of many podcast’s hosts, stated he’d texted McShane to get her model of occasions.

“I think when he got a few drinks in me, it got me to finally speak,” she wrote again, in accordance with Colbert.

Stewart stated he requested McShane to be his girlfriend then and there.

“I wrote her a note, as sophisticated as I was at that time,” the comic stated. “It said ‘Would you be my girlfriend?’ And I gave her only two boxes that she could check: One was ‘yes’ and the other was ‘of course.’”

Stewart has shared up to now that he and his spouse met after they have been arrange on a blind date. They’ve been married since 2000.

The “Strike Force Five” podcast is hosted by 5 late evening TV hosts whose exhibits are on hiatus because of the Hollywood writers strike: Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Fallon, Stephen Colbert, John Oliver and Seth Meyers.

The comedians began the podcast to lift cash for his or her out-of-work staffers.