Jon Stewart on Monday formally accepted Elon Musk’s provide to look on “The Daily Show,” although he couldn’t resist a jab on the billionaire’s characterization of him as partisan.
Musk had provided to look “if the show airs unedited.”
That made it a no brainer for Stewart.
“After thinking about his offer, I thought, ‘You know, hey, that’s actually how the in-studio interviews normally air. Unedited,’ ” Stewart mentioned. “So, sure. We’d be delighted.”
Then Stewart identified one other snag as Musk threw shade, claiming on X that he wasn’t reliable and is “much more a propagandist than it would seem.”
An interview with Elon Musk? Jon Stewart can be delighted! pic.twitter.com/0Ougl2Hv5E
But it surely was the billionaire’s subsequent remark that basically raised an eyebrow.
“John is too set in his ways,” Musk tweeted. “He used to be more bipartisan.”
The host was fast to level out the hypocrisy.
“Again. The guy who custom-made his own dark MAGA hat that he wears to opine in the Oval Office with the president who he spent $270 million to elect thinks I’m just too partisan,” Stewart quipped. “I’m really not sure what he thinks bipartisan means, but it’s generally not, ‘I support Donald Trump, and also Germany’s [right-wing] AfD party.”
That led Stewart to situation a caveat of his personal, no matter what Musk decides to do.
“Can we just drop the pretense that you won’t do it because I don’t measure up to the standards of neutral discourse that you demand and display at all times?” Stewart mentioned. “Because quite frankly, that’s bulls–t. You know it, I know it, it’s bulls–t.”
Stewart additionally up to date viewers on the earlier week’s damage, displaying a pinprick-sized purple dot on his once-bloody finger as he introduced out a plastic sippy cup as a substitute of a espresso mug just like the one he’d shattered.
“I am not allowed to have big boy mugs anymore,” he mentioned, including that the community’s “safety committee” had decreed, “No more ceramic for Mr. Stewart.”
