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'The Daily Show' accepts Musk's terms for interview with Stewart: 'We'd be delighted'
(www.usatoday.com)
he will cancel cause of some nonsense excuse.
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Wasn't he going to cage fight Zuck at one point?
I vote to the death.
Celebrity Death Make IRL Remake.
And then call him a pedo.
That fucking pussy will back out so fucking fast it'll make Zuck wanna fight him again.
If he can't back out, he'll bring a random offspring to the taping to use as a human shield.
You are not my Daily Show host, go away!
There is absolutely no way that Musk will go ahead with this. Even if it was contractually agreed that it would be aired completely unedited--which I doubt it can be, Comedy Central network censors would almost certainly have to bleep words out--Musk would come out looking so bad, esp. with a host that wouldn't let him dodge or redirect questions, that he would skip. Muskrat might drink his own FlavorAde, but there's not way in hell that he's dumb enough to do this.
oh, he absolutely is dumb enough
He didn't follow through on his fight with Zuck, even though he swore online that he would destroy him. So no, I think that he is neither dumb enough, nor so completely unencumbered by a connection to reality, that he would actually follow through on being on the Daily Show.
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Need a Mangione in the audience.
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He'll claim it's edited and cry... If he turns up in the first place, that is.
Careful Jon, Musk and his ego are way more fragile than a coffee mug.
Jon Stewart is the kind of fucker that'd happily cut his hand to smash a mug like that... and he's handled far worse (Bill O'riely and Tucker Carlson).
Considering the agreement is to air it unedited I'd be utterly unsurprised if we get an amazing video of Elon freezing halfway through a question early into the interview and then just walking off... that alone would be worth the price of admission.
As a born and raised Bostonian, I hope this interview happens more than I have ever hoped the Red Sox would win the world series before 2004... and that's a seriously deep fucking hope.
To anyone who doesn't know, that's like a century long prayer that is a major cultural touchstone in Boston and even out to the rest of New England.
This is a make-or-break moment for Stewart, because if he ever shows any sort of complacency with Musk when he's face-to-face with the sonofabitch, when he's so passionately against him when he's not, as talk show hosts often do with controversial guests, his audience will punish him something fierce.
Make or break?
Uh, the dude already made it... He was staple viewing for college kids of my generation and a lone voice of sanity on corporate television during the Bush years
I grew up watching TDS at like 9 or 10. My family was pretty openly liberal, they found the jokes funny, and he integrated into my life on a daily basis for years, especially during the Bush years when I was a young teen.
His work with veterans and 9/11 responders solidified Jon as not just a talker but a real community builder.
Jon’s done countless hot interviews and regularly came out ahead. Jon would have no issue challenging power: he never has. That’s his charisma and charm.
Totally agree with the poster above.
“Make or break?” Jon Stewart is on what is essentially the victory tour of his career. He was so popular in his first stint at the daily show that some openly wondered whether the show could continue without him. He retired from that to work advocacy for first responders, for which he was lauded. He’s back now because even a solid decade away couldn’t make the audience forget his heyday. I’ve criticized Stewart in the past, but even I can see that if he were to flub this interview most would shrug “huh, sad how the greats start to slip as they age,” and tune back in next week.
I’m not hugely versed on American show hosts, but that would seem very out of character for Stewart who seems a bit more earnest than the usual from what little I know.
It's very common for hosts - hell, anybody - to be vitriolic with someone who isn't there in person, and then become all civil, polite and buddy-buddy-like with them when they're around. For example, Bill Maher recently invited that turd Matt Gaetz on his podcast show thing and it was the most nauseating best-friends act you never saw, considering how critical Maher has been of the guy.
Oh this disgusting scene that shows in no uncertain way that all politicians are in fact in the same club of psychopaths, and their public rivalries are just theater.
John has had some pretty direct and confrontational interviews already. This wouldn't be new for him.
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I just came to say this. There is no tolerance. Jon Stewart is going to get crucified and pushed to either quit or he will have such a disgust from the reaction that he'll end up hating the left. He's too good at what he does. Any effective communicator must be purged no exceptions
This will never happen.
John Stewart has enough sense that if Musk came on the set to shoot him for the good of humanity.
This seems like a bad idea... Anyone currently supporting Musk/Trump just believes the lies and has no issue with their behavior. It's essentially impossible for the interview to go so poorly that they'll actually see it that way. It's just giving Musk more attention and yet another platform.
I don't think he can be platformed anymore since everyone knows who he is at this point.
Y'know, due to DOGE and all that?
The existence of communities such as "leopards eating faces" disproves that. Yes, it might be really late, but people are realizing that they thought they were voting for something else.
Oh fuck yeah I am so here for this
Hes gonna cry out that it was edited regardless
I'm really surprised the left hasn't started to attack Jon Stewart for something yet. It's coming. I guarantee it.
well he has been the subject of criticism from leftists. the daily show's schtick for over two decades is pointing out hypocrisy in conservative politics, which is completely ineffective because you cannot shame a conservative politician into doing anything. also, many of jons arguments and comedy come from an incredibly centered political stance, which also wins him no favor from the left.
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