Video: Jon Stewart Gives Pepper Spray Cop Anthony Bologna His Own TV Show

"Melogna IS Bologna In The Vigilogna"

Jon Stewart turned his attention to the Occupy Wall Street protests on The Daily Show last night, homing in on infamous pepper spray officer Anthony Bologna, who was caught spraying demonstrators in two videos. After showing the first video, Stewart tried to give the high-ranking officer the benefit of the doubt, speculating that perhaps, since it was a hot day, he was "reaching for his canister of cooling, cucumber mist spray—and grabbed the pepper spray by accident."

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But after the second pepper spray video surfaced, Stewart "starts to think this guy doesn't even HAVE cucumber mist spray!" And once the officer's name is revealed, the jokes just write themselves. "Anthony Bologna? You and I both know that guy's name is Tony Baloney. Favorite pasta? Rigatoni. Favorite island? Coney. Favorite southern buffet restaurant? Shoney's." And so on and so forth. But the segment really catches fire when Stewart decides Bologna deserves his own crime drama, about a rogue cop who loses his badge and spray cans but brings justice to the streets his own way—one spray at a time.

The "show," called The Vigilogna, stars Fear and Loathing scene-stealer Chris Meloni, who will forever be Law and Order: SVU's Eliot Stabler. "In a city gone mad," the narrator declares, "Tony Bologna was the fine mist of the law. But then... he went too far. This fall, justice has a first name. It's spelled T-O-N-Y. And it's gonna burn. Chris Melogna (played by Chris Meloni) IS Tony Balgona in The Vigilogna."

"Crime doesn't spray," Melogna intoneys. "But I do."

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By John Del Signore in Arts & Entertainment on September 30, 2011 9:25 AM

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Arunas Rudy Avizius

You have to feel sorry for Tony Baloney. With a name like that you know he was picked on and bullied when he was a kid, so he grew up and also became a bully. So the NYPD will investigate him and excuse his behavior because he had a difficult childhood. It's really very scary that we give people like him a gun. Then we compound the error by giving him a badge. Then we compound the error even more by making him a deputy inspector. Who the hell is in charge of vetting NYPD candidates before they become cops?

Christopher Vargo

they need tazers as well

Christopher Vargo

id like to see mace donated to the protestors and orange fencing too! mace for mace and nets for nets. go get em 99rs

Stjulien Lepauvre

I hope he's now so unpopular he quits & goes to hide, I mean retire, on some far-away island.

Inkognita

Favorite island: Coney? Nah, Staten Island.

Charles

"That's bad news, no matter how you slice it"

ROFL

D Moon

With respect, to some of us Chris Meloni will always be Chris Keller from Oz.

SpideySense

The thing about all this is that if we didn't have video clips going viral natiowide confirming Bologna was pepper spraying innocent people, nobody on the force would be calling him out on his acts.

milkham

is anyone on the force calling him out now?

Sara G

HA HA HA "Human Crop duster"! LMFAO

colonelcasey

Nice to see Stabler back as a white shirt!

delicats

I lol'd

GalBklyn

it's over baloney. you made it to the big time ... but alas it's all downhill from here.

arrivederci tony. sorry - but ray just can't take it when the spotlight shifts.

FreeDumb1

ahhahahaha

Trustafarian

Meloni rules

BrassMonkeyBallz

Meloni, Baloney - look it rhymes!

ganghiscon

"I guess that is what democracy looks like. Although, to be fair, it's also what Bonnaroo looks like."

randomtransplant

I was gonna quote that!

Spirit of 76

You should be proud, Tony. It's a rare privilege to become a national laughingstock. Most people go their whole lives without ever coming close. Even Pat Pogan and the Moreno/Mata tag team couldn't get on Stewart. Kudos!

Investigate-NWO-globalists

Funny, but the job of police is to PROTECT & SERVE, not spray hot pepper in innocent people's faces on behalf of banksters, Wall Street manipulators, & other corporatist!!!