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For this Daily Show, Jon Stewart took on the $1.1 trillion omnibus, lampooning the clandestine way in which lawmakers inserted new laws and rolled back some regulations via a spending bill. In addition to funding government expenses for the next fiscal year, the bill included non-budgetary deals like ending the ban on incandescent light bulbs, fighting the legalization of marijuana in D.C., and the rolling back of regulatory provisions in the Dodd-Frank financial bill.

How did those, and other non-budgetary items, get into the omnibus? According to CNN's Chris Moody, lawmakers "came in, in the middle of the night, when not a lot of people are looking," to sneak in items that would not pass on their own.

"What? They just wait until nobody is looking and slip the toxic stuff in?" an incredulous Stewart said, setting up the punch line: "The Bill Cosby of legislation."