In his second show back from a long summer off, Jon Stewart took on the “Groundhog Deja Clusterf@#k” that is the debate over military action in Syria. Stewart had a particularly good time ribbing Sen. John McCain for his unabashed iPhone poker play during yesterday’s Senate hearings.

“Hey, man, is this possible global conflagration interrupting your video poker time?” Stewart asked McCain. “You know what, Senator? Go. There’s a rascal scooter and a bucket of quarters with your name on it over at the Golden Nugget… Instead of playing pretend poker in the actual Senate, go to an actual casino and pretend you know what the government should do.”

Moving on to the pressing issues at hand, Stewart said “it’s like even though we’re a superpower we haven’t figured out yet we don’t actually have superpowers.” He said the real problems started hundreds of years ago with some British man “drawing a map of a place he never had been to filled with people he never met, forming new countries with no attention paid to ethnic or religious tensions.” This, of course, led to the return of John Oliver as “Sir Archibald Map-a-Lot III.”

Oliver proceeded to redraw the map of the Middle East in order to fix the problems facing Syria. When Jon Stewart questioned his “cavalier” decisions, Oliver shot back, “This is imperialism, boy! First rule is don’t over think it. Second rule: don’t think at all!” Things only got more outrageous from there, with Oliver clearly relishing his chance to step out of the straight-man role and go back to being the ridiculous Brit.

By the end of the bit, Oliver began playing poker on his phone, “because you are boring me, Jon Stewart. And this is what real gentlemen do. They play poker on their iPhones whenever they become inexplicably bored by something incredibly important.”