On Thursday night's episode of "The Daily Show," Jon Stewart turned off the humor and took on a different tone in relation to the mass-murder in Charleston, South Carolina, at a church during bible study and prayer.

The incident Stewart was talking about took place Wednesday evening at the historic Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, according to The Huffington Post. The suspected gunman walked into the church and stayed about an hour before he opened fire on the church and killed nine people, including the church's pastor.

Stewart took on a somber tone for his opening monologue, which he usually uses to dish out jokes about current events and political maneuvering for the day.

Instead, he used the entire opening monologue to address the situation, calling the incident a terrorist attack and chiding citizens and lawmakers alike for doing nothing to prevent such tragedies.

"I honestly have nothing other than sadness that once again we have to peer into the abyss of the depraved violence that we do to each other and the nexus of a just gaping racial wound that will not heal yet we pretend doesn't exist. I'm confident though that by acknowledging it -- by staring into it -- we still won't do jack s**t," Stewart said in the segment.

He strongly made key acknowledgments that the hate crime is a perpetual illness in America that its own people choose not to believe exists.

"Nine people were shot in a black church by a white guy who hated them, who wanted to start some sort of civil war," Stewart said. "The confederate flag flies over South Carolina. And the roads are named for confederate generals."

It was a commanding monologue that concluded with a strong comparison of known terror organizations and our own homegrown terrorism.

"And that's the thing -- al Qaeda, ISIS, they're not s**t compared to the damage we can do to ourselves on a regular basis," Stewart said.

See the video below of his monologue.