'The Daily Show' host Jon Stewart, right, and New York Mayor de Blasio talked about heavy snow in the city and the perception that last month he left the Upper East Side — which did not support de Blasio — unplowed on purpose.  Eight more inches of snow fell on the winter-weary New York City Monday — but this time Mayor de Blasio was able to joke about it.  With the city seemingly better prepared for the snow than previous storms, de Blasio appeared on “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart” on Monday night.  The city’s handling of the last snowfall, on Jan. 21 — when plows were slow to clear the Upper East Side, a neighborhood that did not support de Blasio in the election — was mined for laughs all night.  Also on the program, the comedian brought out a pie from John's Pizzeria in the Village to make fun of the ‘forkgate’ incident in which the mayor was spotted using cutlery to eat a slice. Stewart’s move prompted the mayor to produce utensils from his suit jacket pockets to jeers from the crowd.  De Blasio sat down with Stewart for the show’s final segment. “I’m feeling good. I just wish we’d done a better job getting that snow up to the Upper East Side,” the mayor joked.  RELATED: WINTER STORM HITS NYC AREA HOURS AFTER SUPER BOWL  Stewart noted that it has snowed several times since de Blasio’s Jan. 1 inauguration. “I remember Bloomberg — 12 years, it never snowed once,” Stewart said.  “I think he paid the right guy,” de Blasio quipped. “I mean, he had the money.”  “What else can we do to the Upper East Side?" Stewart asked.  “We have an experimental effort to get locusts up there,” the mayor said, adding that he would like “a snow day.”  The city’s snow-removal effort was also the subject of the show’s opening skit.  RELATED: POST-SUPER BOWL STORM STRANDS FOOTBALL FANS AT AIRPORTS  “De Blasio got an earful from the tony East Side residents used to Mayor Bloomberg carrying them individually from their apartments to the chopper,” Stewart said. “So did de Blasio handle today’s snowstorm better?”  Daily Show “correspondent” Jessica Williams then was shown in beach clothes in what was supposed to be Brooklyn, de Blasio’s home turf.  “There are no traffic problems. In fact, it’s 82 degrees and it’s sunny,” she said. “The only snow in sight is right here,” she added, enjoying a snow cone. “The man loves Brooklyn, so stay cool!”  It was a different story for correspondent Aasif Mandvi, who was supposedly on the Upper East Side buried up to his head in a snowbank.  “It seems de Blasio’s plows are actively bringing snow in," Mandvi said.  RELATED: DE BLASIO PIZZA FORK ON DISPLAY, TO BE AUCTIONED  “I can’t move my legs, Jon. But hey, that’s life in de Blasio’s New York. He’s hellbent on making the city unlivable for the rich! ”  During an early afternoon briefing, de Blasio said the city approached Monday’s snowfall differently than the Jan. 21 storm.  “The response to the last storm obviously left something to be desired,” he said. “We did a review of our efforts and we’ve come up with some initial changes that we actually were able to implement right away.”  The city made an early call to cancel trash pickup, allowing the Sanitation Department to pre-position spreaders before the snow fell. The department also had access to NYPD cameras to monitor conditions.  And unlike the Jan. 21 storm, when some traffic agents had to be pulled from their posts because poor visibility put them in “real danger,” on Monday they were expected to stay on the street.  Two more storms were forecast — one beginning overnight Tuesday, the other this weekend. A winter storm watch was posted, with 4 to 10 inches possible Tuesday night into Wednesday.
Jon Stewart gave Mayor de Blasio a lesson in eating a slice of pizza New York-style Monday night.