Jon Stewart just eviscerated Jim Cramer.
Must-watch status, folks. It’ll be up on the Daily Show website tomorrow along with the Comedy Network site for Canadians. Other foreign types, I dunno. But I’m not kidding when I say that that was a must-watch.
Top comment: So, over the last couple of weeks I find that Jim Cramer’s show wasn’t just made up for Arrested Development. Is Bob Loblaw real too? — plus C
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I think I saw Jim Cramer cry. I’d feel bad for him, but… he kind of deserved it.
After all the hype leading up to it, I’m a little disappointed. While John did score some good points against him, it didn’t live up to what the Daily Show was pushing and what Cramer was hyping on all the NBC shows.
I was a little disappointed. As awesome as it was to watch, I think John should have let Cramer talk a little more.
And say what? He said the same thing every time he spoke. “Sorry.”
I look forward to seeing it.
Cramer and MSNBC really fucked up by falling into the same stupidity “trap” that Tucker Carlson did by trying to hold Jon Stewart up to the same level of journalistic integrity as say.. a real reporter, instead of what Jon Stewart has always been and honestly has never claimed to be anything else than.. a comedian.
I think the problem is that Jon Stewart tends to have more journalistic integrity than most of the real cable journalists out there.
Zenrage. They tried, and this interview. Holy fuck. It was the most vicious thing I have ever seen on tv. I think it was even more vicious and better than the crossfire one, because Stewart brought evidence with him this time.
Is it funny or sad when the comedy news seems to have the highest journalistic standards of the day?
Bunny: When you are running the show, that’s a whole lot easier to do. Had Tucker Carlson been on the Daily Show, then he’d have been forced to endure various clips where he had his foot in his mouth.
True enough. I’m saying that it’s more vicious because Stewart was on home turf. Oh, and on a completely unrelated note, I found at work an Archie cover that made me think of you MGK. It was Archie, Dilton, and a bowl of popcorn.
motherfucker.
So, over the last couple of weeks I find that Jim Cramer’s show wasn’t just made up for Arrested Development. Is Bob Loblaw real too?
I just saw a segment of it over at CrooksandLiars.com and I don’t know how much was cut from the beginning, but it appears that Jim might have had some idea of what was going to happen before he came out since he was in pain from the beginning of the clip.
I don’t understand the full meaning of what the clips were showing because I don’t understand the terminology. I took one business course in college and no force on earth could have kept me awake (or from snoring) for more than five minutes, but I do understand reaction and its fairly obvious that Jon Stewart pretty much put Cramer in a pink dress, bent him over a desk and made him thank Jon for doing it.
The clip says the full interview is already available at http://www.thedailyshow.com
DistantFred,
Sad. Terribly, awfully sad.
IMHO It seemed tougher than the Crossfire one since Jon is usually extremely soft and nice to the douchiest of scumbags on his show. The exception factor really made it stronger.
“Is Bob Loblaw real too?”
Best comment on a blog. Since ever. Better than “Let there be light” that God posted on cosmoblog.
I didn’t know who Jim Cramer is, so before watching the Daily Show interview I checked the wikipedia entry:
Wow, I guess it’s official then.
If you saw the show last night and were a little disappointed, make a point of looking at the clips online. From what I understand, last night’s show was cut by 8 minutes in order to fit the half-hour format.
It was another epic win for Jon Stewart.
After watching the unedited clips, I feel Cramer still comes off like a douche.
I wasn’t disappointed with the interviewed that aired last. Before the show aired I was concerned Stewart would look like he was attacking Cramer. Instead Stewart was trying to hold him and CNBC accountable for poor journalism, a lack of ethics, and sensational greed. As far as I’m concerned there should be more of that.
I was looking forward to it, but… it was kinda depressing, really. Like a 30 point lead in a BCS Championship game, you just know someone on the other team’s side is crying on the sidelines.
Can someone please draw Jon Stewart as The Comedian?
He saw the true face of twenty first century media and chose to become a reflection, a parody of it.
“Can someone please draw Jon Stewart as The Comedian?”
Seconding the call for this.
I didn’t particularly like the interview. I like Jon Stewart, but I think he was trying too hard to score points.
What I feel he should have pressed Cramer on is, “What can be done, and what will be done to improve the integrity of financial reporting?”
I listened to Cramer’s financial advice as much as I listen to Bret Michaels’ romantic advice. It is a TV show with wacky sound effects and loud noises. How could anyone really trust their money in his hands?
If you invested based solely on what that man said, you are grounded with no TV and no video games for two weeks.
“Can someone please draw Jon Stewart as The Comedian?
He saw the true face of twenty first century media and chose to become a reflection, a parody of it.”
this would be AWESOME
If Cramer knew what went on behind the scenes in the financial world and how it could have disastrous consequences, I agree that he had a duty to warn people about it. He didn’t. However, I think John was reaching a little when he talked about how CNBC knew it was coming and acted like everything was fine. I don’t see how he can get that from the Cramer clips. All that those prove is that Cramer knew there was unethical shit going on and that he’d done some of that unethical shit himself, as opposed to him and/or CNBC having the date of the market collapse marked on their calendars beforehand.
just a quick ‘shop, but at least it’ll get the ball rolling…
http://i297.photobucket.com/albums/mm211/RandomChance42/JonStewartComedian.jpg
Well done, sir.
God, did Cramer ever buckle. He practically rolled onto his back from the second he got on camera. I think Stewart was pretty much mannered and conversational, not going for any kinds of cheap shots or personal invective. Stewart just made Cramer seem trivial, insubstantial and outright hackish. Stewart just oozed gravitas when plac ed side-by-side with Cramer, man of toast.
“Stewart just made Cramer seem trivial, insubstantial and outright hackish. Stewart just oozed gravitas when plac ed side-by-side with Cramer, man of toast”
which really says something about modern reporting, that the comedian has more graitas than the reporters
Finally jon brought that loud mouth down a notch.
Huh. Stewart actually looks more like a brunette version of movie-Ozymandias in that picture.
Now, I loved watching this very much because it was the same kind of Truth to Power that I’ve come to associate with Jon Stewart, and with Stephen Colbert when he’s not being unwatchably silly.
But can someone explain to me how the interview isn’t basically Jon Stewart crucifying Jim Cramer for the shenanighans of the entire finance industry? I mean yes, he’s a putz and the charge that everyone’s pensions are funding his adventure is a level one; but at some point you get this unpleasant feeling like Cramer’s bearing the brunt of a torrent of ire actually directed at a much larger institution of which he is not so much any kind of overlord as a mere unfortunately-timed mascot.
I remember a while ago a guest on the show pointed out to Jon that all the anger at Big Auto was that they’d dare to fly private to their bailout hearing, and that this was getting mad at the symbol instead of constructively attacking the problem; I feel like intellectually beating the shit out of Jim Cramer runs the risk of that same sort of effigy-burning.
But I really want to stress that I’m far from the smartest guy on this comments board, so if someone wants to explain to me why Jim Cramer deserved all that Jim Cramer got and how giving Jim Cramer his beans is going to go some small but vital way toward finding a solution to all our global maliases, I really am all ears.
Reminded me of Colbert’s eviseration of Dinesh D’Sousa (where he forced that “liberal-basher” to acknowledge he was essentially in agreement with Al-Qaida on most issues!)It’ll probably discourage even MORE of the punditry from coming on the show; after all, Rush is still afraid to go back on Letterman!
Skemono, you’re right. He does kinda look like movie Ozy. I think it’s because I didn’t give him the honkin’ huge Magnum PI mustache…
Some blame has to be put on audiences. There’s lots of sound financial advice out there but so long as we would rather watch Mad Money than read the Wall Street Journal or watch the BBC we get what we deserve.
And the reason Stewart the comedian seems like a serious journalist is no one is watching the serious journalism shows on BBC and CNN. They want infotainment.
“Wow,” is right. Cramer tried to be contrite, but he just went down in flames. Stewart was really preachy, but this is the sort of interview that somebody needed to do, and nobody else is doing it.
Tom: Cramer didn’t deserve the entirety of the assault, and Stewart acknowledged that at times.
He was offered up as a sacrifice to Stewart by CNBC in a vain attempt to save themselves from his biting satire.
Also, he foolishly tried to clear up confusion from that “Bear Stearns’ Liquidity is fine!” clip, which ended up becoming a story… and making him a bigger target.
A lot of the venting Stewart broke out during the interview was probably stuff he had leftover from the cancelled Rick Santelli interview.
Oh, snapple!
Sorry, just got around to watching it. Jon is my hero.