If anyone can do this it’s Jon Stewart. I know he’s mentioned on several occasions that he doesn’t have any political ambitions whatsoever, and he’s been true to his word. But sometimes circumstances allow great men to take great leaps, and on rare occasions, do great things.
The fact that The Hill is already running a piece trying to play him off as a comedy star from an era that has all but vanished due to the corporate landscape, is all I need to know to believe what he has to say. They’re already trying to downplay and dismiss the results before they’ve occurred.
What are the terms of the interview? Will it be in person in front of an audience, via webcast, in front of the burning reichstag, etc…
Zelenskyy was also a comedian first.
People forget that popular comedians are usually incredibly intelligent. Conan graduated MCL from Harvard.
Damn I didn’t know Harvard issued medial cruciate ligaments
Yeah, frankly, its hard to be a great comedian, while also an idiot.
Which is why conservative “comedy” is just a bunch of slurs. They can’t come up with actual jokes.
To be fair, Conan is not typical, and his brain needs to be studied by scientists after he dies lol
What are the terms of the interview?
Musk just wants it to air unedited. Which means no matter what they do, he would be able to claim it was edited if things don’t go his way and he ends up looking like (an even bigger) fool.
So do a single camera and air it live.
Attach a scope to that “camera.”
Do multiple cameras, but display them all continuously, and then do all the tricks people use to try to make it obvious no editing was done and put them in the foreground and background of all the angles.
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Just shows how stupid Elon is. Stewart is an accomplished interviewer, with the backup of being a comedian. Watch Stewart keep his composure after smashing his coffee cup the other night. He assessed the cut, laughed it off, and finished the monologue instantly. Elmo doesn’t have the composure to handle a problem like that.
Was that a trick cup and fake blood, or the real deal?
Was real, they taped him up during the commercial to finish the interview. Probably just a minor cut, but at his age he’s probably on blood pressure, or heart meds, so small cuts bleed like crazy.
Maybe Jon can tucker carlson elon.
I rewatch that crossfire clip regularly. It’s my happy place.
Here’s how it’s going to go down:
- Jon will ask pointed questions.
- Elmo will respond with rhetoric, lies, half-truths, incendiary nonsense, &/or dumb jokes.
- Jon will call him out on his bullshit.
- Elmo will respond with more rhetoric, lies, half-truths, incendiary nonsense, &/or dumb jokes.
- Jon will be appalled at Musk’s lack of integrity, ethics, intelligence, or humility.
- The next day, right-wing pundits will spin it as a victory for Musk - saying he made Stewart “speechless and dumbfounded” with his amazing performance.
Exactly this! I mean, I will watch it, but I won’t expect anything meaningful to come out of this.
I can’t see Stewart doing a puff piece. But I’ve been wrong before and I will be again.
We know how Jon handles this exact situation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCuIxIJBfCY
Musk will be roasted and embarrassed.
God damn, thanks for this link. I’m not sure how I missed this year old video. I wish I could keep my cool as successfully as Stewart does in situations like this.
It’s amazing how surgical he is while you can see he is literally shaking from anger. It’s like the anger just adds fuel to the fire of his rhetorical wit.
Oh holy shit what a take down. That ending was incredible. I’d be terrified of one day meeting Jon Stewart and accidentally voicing an opinion within earshot just in case he takes issue with it.
How the heck did I miss this entire series? I’ve been pining for Jon since 2015, was overjoyed that he’d taken over Monday’s again, and had no idea that he’d been doing a program already. Oy.
Have you seen the current speaking ability of Musk? I’d be surprised if he produces a single coherent sentence.
I hope Jon Stewart really pushes him through his filler speech and reveals Musk as stupid as he actually is.
Tho I still dont think this will happen. Musk would have to be incredibly stupid to accept this, like even more stupid than he actually is.
Replace Elon’s rhetoric/lies/dumb joke non-responses with incoherent babbling and the right-wing will still say he “owned that lib”.
You forgot
- musk buys wherever the Daily Show is produced
- musk fires Jon
- “The Daily Show, with Sean Hannity”
musk fires Jon
Maybe he’ll come back and lead the resistance with Bernie and AOC
Don’t you threaten me with a good time!
I mean, Jon Stewart and maybe some of the writers are the value there. Even if you imagined that happening, he can just go do a new show.
Something like Twitter takes a lot of doing to build; network effect favors incumbents.
I think it might depend on their contacts. There’s a high potential for a non compete clause
I promise you Jon Stewart does not have a clause in any contracts stating he can’t continue working in his field (namely comedy writing).
He’s been in the game a long time and is at the very very top of his career right now. He already retired and went into advocating for 9/11 responders healthcare and veterans benefits. He’s only back to doing a show because we need him right now.
Those aren’t really a thing right now. https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2024/04/ftc-announces-rule-banning-noncompetes
Yep-- apple didn’t want Jon to talk about China (and maybe a couple of other things) on the show they were paying him for. He left, started a new show (slash podcast), and got back on the Daily Show.
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/10/20/media/jon-stewart-apple/index.html
AI. He wasn’t supposed to say anything bad about AI.
Which is funny, because Apple itself is giving one of the best takedowns of generative AI with the flagship feature on the most recent iPhone.
Popcorn gif
It will never happen.
The headline makes it sound like they were in talks with each other. Musk gave his “terms” to a random Twitter user. I seriously doubt this will happen. Stew beef would completely humiliate Musk and his mediocre white guy confidence wouldn’t save him.
Too bad there’s no SEC to force him into the interview like when he offered to buy twitter.
Can’t give a worse interview than kanye west right?
Unedited interviews are bold, but let’s see if Musk handles real scrutiny without edits.
😺😺😺😺
From the article…
Musk appeared to accept the challenge, replying Tuesday to one user, “I will do it if the show airs unedited.”
“The Daily Show” took notice, reposting the message Wednesday from its official account accepting the terms.
Unedited, streamed live.
Though this does remind me of that asshole and wife abuser Steven Crowder bailing from a debate with Sam Seder.
Seder took steps to make sure Steven was available and couldn’t just say, “oh I got a thing”, used Ethan from H3h3 to rope a dope him.
And then came the showdown and Steven bailed.
“I will do it if the show airs unedited.”
That’s the best outcome. Therefore he will be a scaredy musk and elon his way out of the show. Hopefully it will be like his attempt to elon his way out of buying shitter and we will get a full unedited interview and at least a could of people might realize he is so full of shit and a damned junkey.
Make it live to make sure everyone sees it
Jon Stewart regularly hosts chuds like Bill O’Reliy. The reason these people keep going on his show is because he hasn’t held feet to fire.
Stewart is steeped in neoliberalisim and both-sidesism, don’t be surprised if he pitches softballs.
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yes, this is how interviewers must conduct interviews in order to have guests agree to be interviewed, to some extent
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Did you see his latest interview with Bill O’Reilly though? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7qZE4C_neo
Or famously, Jon Stewart on Crossfire? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFQFB5YpDZE
EDIT Also in the Crossfire one your exact concern is addressed by Jon directly
EDIT again, also his “both-sidesism” seems to be being critical of both MAGA right wing nonsense and neoliberal capitalist nonsense, but I have not seen much criticism from him of progressives. If you have some examples, I’d watch them. So I don’t see how that he is “steeped in neoliberalism” because he is often critcal of it.
I’d point at his excellent interview with AOC not even a month ago: https://youtu.be/eeheoxWzf2o
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It seems pretty obvious that you’re putting Stewart in the same camp as Bill Maher.
I hope the security is light.
Please Lord, let this debate actually happen.
I hope he shows up blasted on ketamine and drools on himself.
cowardly mod censoring for “civility” over the call for a righteous fight against fascists.
Stewart is training his wordplay right now like a Rocky montage.
So they want to platform a fascist? Giving a nazi access to their audience which he normally wouldn’t reach? This guy is part of an ongoing coup and they want to give him primetime attention?
They must think that they are very clever.
You can’t platform the richest man in the world.
No, no, they want to embarrass a fascist.
That dude is on of the most embarrassing men on earth right now. Just look at his Twitter account. You cant really emberass him any more than he already did himself.
a top-of-his-game Jon Stewart would almost certainly make musk dance to a totally foreign (and illuminating) tune.
remember this is the man who cancelled crossfire and sent tucker carlson packing.
I think jon has more than enough left in the tank (backed by facts and razer sharp witt) to out musk for what he is. this is exactly why I will be shocked if musk actually shows up.
I shared this upthread but I think that you might enjoy knowing it also. Jon Stewart went, himself, onto Crossfire, Tucker Carlson’s show in 2004. And he just… destroyed him. Here’s a link to the wikipedia article of the incident.
