Jon Stewart, host of “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart,” slammed Fox News’ coverage of the U.S. election results on Wednesday’s episode of the Comedy Central TV show.

Fox News seemed to be having a major meltdown on election night, as Republican strategist Karl Rove questioned the network’s projection that Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney had lost Ohio and that, as a result, President Barack Obama had won the 2012 presidential race.

“I think this is premature,” said Mr. Rove, an advisor to former President George W. Bush. “I don’t know what the outcome is gonna be but we gotta be careful about calling things when we have 991 votes separating the two candidates and a quarter of the vote yet to count.”

Startled by Mr. Rove’s remark, Fox News’ Megyn Kelley asked the question tat anyone who was watching the network’s coverage of the election wanted to ask.

“Is this just math that you do as a Republican to make yourself feel better?” Ms. Kelly asked Mr. Rove.

“I believe this piece of footage will, unlike us, live forever,” Mr. Stewart said in reaction to Ms. Kelly’s question. The comedian even suggested that the network replace their old slogan, “Fair and Balanced,” with this entertaining question.

The Republican strategist’s complaint sparked an unplanned interview between Ms. Kelly and several members of Fox News’ decision desk, where number crunchers were busily analyzing election results so the network could predict the outcome of races in various states.

It should be noted that Mr. Rove had a legitimate interest in seeing Mr. Romney and other Republicans do well on election night, as his super PAC, American Crossroads, spent millions of dollars on races around the country. The Sunlight Foundation says that his super PAC poured $103.5 million into the general election and saw a success rate of less than two percent.

Mr. Rover wasn’t the only target of Mr. Stewart’s musings. Bill O’Reilly, host of Fox News’ “The O’Reilly Factor,” also made it into the comedian’s lambasting of the network’s coverage of the U.S. election results.

“The white establishment is now the minority,” Mr. O’Reilly said on Tuesday. “It’s not a traditional America anymore. There are 50 percent of the voting public who want stuff. They want things. Who is going to give them things? President Obama.”

“What an incredible story to tell yourselves: We would have won if it weren’t for the moral failings of the non-real America,” Mr. Stewart said in reaction to Mr. O’Reilly’s comments.

The host of “The Daily Show” wasn’t the only one ripping Fox News’ coverage of the U.S. election results. In a review of the TV networks’ election night coverage, Lisa De Moraes of The Washington Post wrote that Fox News was the network to flip to “if you wanted to watch political contributor Karl Rove try to hijack a network and get it to un-declare Ohio for Obama.”