Comedians Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert entertained a huge crowd at the “Rally to Restore Sanity” and “Keep Fear Alive” to poking fun at the nation’s ill-tempered politics, fear-mongers and doomsayers.

Part comedy show, part pep talk, the rally drew together tens of thousands stretched across an expanse of the National Mall, a festive congregation of the goofy and the politically disenchanted.