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    Jon Stewart flabbergasted by ‘out-of-context nonsense’ over his ‘Harry Potter’ jokes

    by Nardine Saad, Los Angeles Times Jan 05, 2022 3 minutes

    Jon Stewart just gave social media a shake of the Time-Turner, calling out news coverage of his recent “Harry Potter” jokes about goblins in the film franchise as “ridiculously out-of-context nonsense.”

    The former “Daily Show” host took to Twitter — and his podcast — Wednesday to shut down rampant reports about his December remarks on the financially savvy goblins of “Harry Potter” and J.K. Rowling’s Wizarding World.

    “We went off on a ‘Harry Potter’ thing,” Stewart explained in a new episode of his “The Problem With Jon Stewart” podcast. “There is no reasonable person that could have watched

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