Daily Show host Jon Stewart observed on Monday that, as the Senate moves closer to declassifying a report trashing the Central Intelligence Agency’s “enhanced interrogation” techniques, the political figures behind it — including former Vice-President Dick Cheney — were resurfacing in the public eye.

“He’s like the Wilford Brimley of torture,” Stewart said of Cheney, before launching into an impression of Cheney doing a Brimley-like ad for waterboarding, gruffly calling it, “The right thing to do.”

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Stewart also showed footage of former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld from Errol Morris’ documentary The Unknown Known in which Rumsfeld parries a question about memos related to torture, blames the memos entirely on the Justice Department, then congratulates himself for, in his mind, stumping the questioner.

“Look how f*cking proud he is of having put a lot of different words in between ‘Bush administration’ and ‘torture,’ while not, in any explicit way, changing the meaning of those words or refuting the charge,” Stewart said, pointing to a picture of a smiling Rumsfeld. “But as long as you’re happy, I’m happy. And I assume that is happiness, and not his teeth trying desperately to escape his face.”

But while Cheney and Rumsfeld were engaged in defending their “twisted legacy,” their boss, then-President George W. Bush, was unveiling his private artwork collection, which seemed to be centered around the theme of, “Other people I knew who ran countries.”

“He is a somewhat confounding dude,” Stewart said of Bush.

Watch Stewart’s commentary, as posted online on Monday, below: