VIDEO: You need to watch Jon Stewart’s powerful monologue on the Charleston shootings

You can always rely on Jon Stewart to lay it out straight. Especially when things get serious.

Last night, the host of The Daily Show stripped away his usual biting satire and quick wit saying that in the wake of the Charleston shootings, he just couldn't summon the energy to find any humour in the situation.

"I have one job and it's a pretty simple job. I come in in the morning and we look at the news and I write jokes about it," he said.