He’ll find a way to back out. Musk is stupid, but not that stupid.
He’s also extremely overconfident and narcissistic
Well, that’s true, but the fact that he said, “I’ll only do it if they air it unedited!” makes me think he thought they would say, “no,” and he’d be able to decline while saving face. My gut tells me he’ll make up another excuse now. I’d love to be wrong, though!
Elon won’t do it. He’s a pussy. He will back out and start calling Stewart a pedo on social media.
Retarded is his new favorite word.
He could just go and say/do something that would prevent airing
Then if they take it out it’s been edited
No he won’t! He’s not a huge pussy! What about that time he fought mark zuckerberg?
Just like when he backed out of that fight with zuck
It should’ve been some kind of extreme badass death match deluxe: nobody gets out of the cage while any one of them is still breathing.
As much as I hate Musk, that would have been so beautiful.
Just keep his security goons away from the production facilities and equipment. In fact, they should hire three times the amount of security Musk has. Just remember, they have been deputized by the U.S. Marshall Service, so they have the power to arrest people.
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
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.
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.
Nah…He’d still play the it was edited bullshit. The only thing that is nearly impossible to defend is “it was edited while being played live”. There, his embarrassments are his own, and they’re very very hard to downplay to any other causes.
Attach a scope to that “camera.”
Wouldn’t it be funny if they had 2 guests. Elon Musk and Bill Burr.
I’d prefer Luigi.
The closest we ever came…
Elon comes out without his kid and the Mario Bros theme starts playing
Lol
Fucking pay per view that shit. I’d pay $49.99 to watch that.
That one should be a public service. Why limit it’s viewing rate when a lot of the country needs to view his idiocy fumbling for answers he obviously never thought of.
Stewart is smart and funny, but he’s nice. He’s going to be pleasant and welcoming, smiling and cracking jokes with one of the evilest men alive. Very good comedian against a very polished, smiling Nazi.
This is not an easy match like Stewart against two unprepared lightweights (Tucker Carlson and Paul Begala) on Crossfire. Elon Musk, for all his myriad faults, is not stupid, and will be well prepped.
I’m not excited about it. Too much could go wrong.
What about Musk makes you think he’s polished? The time he randomly accused a diver of being a pedophile because he got his feelings hurt? Or when he told his customers to go fuck themselves? When he did a Nazi salute?
The dude is the the most idiotic and unpolished famous person ever.
What about Musk makes you think he’s polished?
Hmmmm. Nothing, I guess. ‘Polished’ is probably some unwanted prejudice baked into me, thinking a rich bastard must know how to present himself as businesslike to bankers and other such bastards, but sweet jeebers maybe you’re right. I’ve certainly never seen Musk be anything but an unwiped ass.
Reminder that he got fired as CEO of one of the few companies he legitimately founded, twice.
He’s spoken live several times recently and “polished” is the last word I’d use to describe him.
That was 21 years ago! And where others might expect someone to slow down, I think Jon Stewart’s spending all the time since then writing, interviewing, producing content, and fighting in Congress will suit him well. I think we’ll see a meaner, hungrier Stewart.
I really hope we get a chance to see it.
Go listen to his recent podcast interview with Raheem Jeffries where he just let’s Jeffries gaslight him for an hour. It was embarrassing.
I’ll have to take your word for it. I struggle with podcasts.
I really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really hope you’re right.
I’ll throw in a few reallys of my own. Really really really.
And my really!
The thing I hate though is whenever someone interviews Elon it seems like they can’t help but crawl right up his ass. If you wanna see real cringe look at Bill Maher’s interview with him. Now he criticizes Elon, but when he had him on I’m pretty sure he was what that AI video of Trump and Elon was trained on.
Maybe stew beef is different, but I figure if Elon detects he can’t get the interview he wants he’ll bail.
Don lemon interview was not bad
I am so excited to tell you this.
When Tucker Carlson (right-wing shithead) was hosting a show called ‘Crossfire,’ and still wearing a stupid bow tie, he made the mistake of agreeing to have Jon Stewart on his show. Here’s a link to the wikipedia page. There is a whole page for this one incident.
Here is a line that might appeal: “Three months after the appearance, Crossfire was cancelled and Carlson was fired; commentators differ as to how impactful it actually was, but generally agree that Stewart was at least part of the reason.”
And one thing is for sure, Tucker Carlson may have kept his incredibly stupid “man just asking questions” expression… but he stopped wearing that stupid bow tie.
Bill Maher is pretty damn conservative tbh
Bill Maher is pretty damn conservative tbh
nah, he’s just an aging narcissist cunt
Agreed. I used to agree with a fair amount he had to say, but now I think he was being disagreeable so that he could appear edgy and smart, and it allowed him to talk down to people. I got tired of him a decade ago or more.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Place your bets on muskrat chickening out.
Stewart is going to rip him a structurely superfluous behind.
Yeah it’s not happening Musk will have some government looting emergecy that needs attending to. Some widow in Wisconsin might be getting her Medicaid back.
If he doesn’t chicken out, he might storm out mid interview when John absolutely stomps on every misleading or false thing he says and pushes him to actually define his role in DOGE which could open him up to legal trouble (if that term meant anything anymore)
I’d be so happy if he throws a hissy fit and storms off.
Right? I’d love this. I have $20 that says it doesn’t happen
That term doesn’t mean anything anymore.
I don’t think there’s a bookie in the world who would bet against that.
Just like the cage match he had with Zuck.
This’d be much much better. Even Joe Average can see muskrat is physically unfit, but his intellectual dishonesty is much easier to cover up.
Pigs will fly and my shit will turn to gold before he sits in front of Jon Stewart live, and or unedited
Idk. Seeing how hard he worked for the first responders in NYC, he might just shoot the guy to save the rest of us.
I doubt Musk goes in front of a lot of people at all anymore.
Musk appeared at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) last week. I assume there were a decent number of people there (but maybe not a number of decent people).
And his appearance was so incredibly cringy. I have read through the half of that transcript on verge and omg dude literally has brain damage.
I have a bunch of highly functioning k addicts around me and it’s exactly the same way they speak when binging on K a bit too much. Just stammering and these random bleeps of out of context thoughts constantly seep into their conversations.
Hopefully it’s on the podcast where he can go into detail.
Be sure to provide appropriate furniture.
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.
Musk will never wear a bow tie again.
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.
