Fourth-Place Medal, a Yahoo! Sports blog covering the Summer Olympics in Beijing

Now that six days have passed since Chicago's Olympic dreams were shattered by the spiteful IOC, we can laugh about the colossal failure of the bid. Right? Too soon? Too bad.

On Monday's show, Jon Stewart mocked Obama's "put the Olympics near my house" pitch and then hilariously demonstrated the five stages of Chicago-induced grief as exhibited by the American media. And, because it wouldn't be The Daily Show if Stewart didn't rip on conservatives, he gets in some digs at Republicans near the end of the clip. Feel free to skip the "correspondent" report which runs from the 1:40 to 5:00 mark:

And on The Tonight Show, Conan O'Brien showed an exclusive clip of Rio de Janeiro's presentation video:

David Letterman passed on telling any Olympics jokes Monday night but, for the life of me, I can't figure out why.

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