Clip of Jon Stewart humiliating Tucker Carlson resurfaces

The comedian star told Mr Carlson that he was a “d**k” and a “failure”

A clip of comedian Jon Stewart has resurfaced in which Fox News host Tucker Carlson is humiliated for stoking controversy.

The star told Mr Carlson that he was a “d**k” and a “failure” during an episode of CNN’s Crossfire, which Carlson co-presented at the time.

The episode, which aired in 2004, resurfaced on Thursday following a string of controversies surrounding Mr Carlson in recent days.

Referencing their face-to-face encounter on Crossfire, Mr Stewart tweeted that it was “high time “I apologise…to d**ks”.

“I called Tucker Carlson a dick on National television. It’s high time I apologise...to d**ks. Never should have lumped you in with that terrible, terrible person,” the comedian wrote.

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In the clip, Mr Stewart, who was then host of the Daily Show, tells Mr Carlson that regarding “a responsibility to the public discourse,” he had had “failed miserably”.

“When you have people on for just reactionary, knee-jerk….” Mr Stewart says, before Mr Carlson interrupts “I thought you were going to be funny”.

The Crossfire co-host then adds that Mr Stewart should “get a job at a journalism school” for lecturing him.

Mr Stewart responds: “You need to go to one”.

“Do you lecture people like this when they come over to their house?,” Mr Carlson adds. “When they don’t do the right thing, they’re missing opportunities, evading responsibility?”

“If they are,” says Mr Stewart, to which his counterpart responds: “What, that’s terrible, I wouldn’t want to eat with you”.

The ex-Daily Show host goes on to tell Mr Carlson that “You’re as big a dick on your show as you are on any show.”

The clip’s resurfacing comes as members of the US military condemn Mr Carlson, now a Fox News anchor, for accusing servicewomen of being a “mockery”.

Mr Carlson has been rebuked by military officials and a spokesperson for the defence department following his comments.