Beyond Rick Sanchez: Who should Jon Stewart fight with next?

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Host Jon Stewart has hated on a lot of people since he took over ‘The Daily Show,’ and most of the time the outcome for many victims who attempt comebacks has not turned out well.

Rick Sanchez, the Twitter-happy CNN anchor, was fired last week most likely because, after getting lobbed with ‘Daily Show’ jeers for some time, he lashed out at Stewart, calling him a ‘bigot’ and implying that Jews run CNN and ‘all other networks.’ Stewart, who is of Jewish descent, fired back over the weekend at a charity event — ‘all he has to do is apologize to us, and we’ll hire him back — and via his TV show. If Sanchez’s wife’s Facebook page is to be believed, the anchor has since apologized.

But he’s not alone. Way back when, Tucker Carlson also left CNN after a bout with Stewart on ‘Crossfire’ and eventually appeared on ‘Dancing With the Stars’; Carlson now blogs for the Daily Beast, where he’s poked this bear some more. Meanwhile, CNBC’s ‘Mad Money’ host Jim Cramer was simply made to look like a fool when he appeared on ‘The Daily Show.’ (In Cramer’s corner after the fight: Tucker Carlson.)

Stewart, of course, is famous for skewering politicos and pundits — but what about celebrities?

Is there anyone in Hollywood you’d like to see him take on? Share in the comments.

— Whitney Friedlander