In a recent New York Times profile, TV stock-shouter Jim Cramer admitted he still harbors a lot of resentment over Jon Stewart for pwning the hell out of him on Comedy Central’s The Daily Show.

Cramer took a tremendous amount of heat after Stewart called him on the carpet to answer for a series of recommendations that seemed to back about-to-fail firms like Bear Stearns. Cramer tried to defend his original assertions, but Stewart relentlessly pummeled him. To refresh your memory, Stewart scathingly accused back in 2009:

I understand you want to make finance entertaining, but it’s not a fucking game… and I … when I watch that… I can’t tell you how angry that makes me. Because what it says to me that “You all know.” You all know what’s going on. From those shenanigans to the stuff that was being pulled at Bear and at AIG and all this derivative market stuff — that is this weird Wall Street side bet… You knew what the banks were doing and yet you were touting it for months and months. The entire network was. And so now to pretend that this was some sort of crazy once in a lifetime tsunami that nobody could have seen coming is disingenuous at best and criminal at worst.

Stewart continued:

These guys at these companies were on a Sherman’s March through their companies financed by our 401ks and all the incentives of their companies were for short term profit. They burned the fucking house down with our money and walked away rich as hell and you guys knew that that was going on.

Pretty harsh. And it turns out that Cramer hasn’t really personally recovered from the hit his reputation took on TDS that night, and feels as if he somehow became the face of the corruption and criminality that precipitated the 2008 crash. Cramer laments:

“It’s unbelievable, I know, but I never saw it coming… The night before Stewart, a bartender in Brooklyn wished me luck, and I didn’t get what he was talking about. I expected a cordial discussion. They promised they wouldn’t use any clips, and they lied…”

Cramer admits he caught on pretty quickly, though:

“As soon as he started, I realized Stewart was on a mission to make me look like a clown. I didn’t defend myself because I wasn’t prepared. What was I supposed to do, talk about how often I had been right? Praise myself? Get mad? I was mad, but I didn’t want to give the audience any blood. The national media said I got crushed, which I did, and made me into a buffoon…. Stewart was the prosecutor, and I was Exhibit A. But what was the crime? What did I do wrong? I wasn’t running Fannie or Freddie. I wasn’t in charge at Countrywide. CNBC was completely good. Better than the Department of Justice. What I did every night was call these bad actors out. I sat there with Stewart and thought: He’s never even seen my show. He doesn’t even know what I do.” He paused for a moment. “Obviously I didn’t know what he does, either.”

It’s like you could almost feel bad for him until you remember all the people that lost their pensions and stuff.

[NYT via Gawker]

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Jon Stewart took a break from ragging on Goldman Sachs and Sarah Palin last night and did a lengthy bit on the recent iPhone hullabaloo that ended up with police breaking down Gizmodo editor Jason Chen’s door and raiding his house while he was out at dinner. (After the phone had been returned.)

In the clip below, Stewart asks the hard hitting questions, such as why the hell we can’t get a signal when we’re cruising down the West Side Highway here in New York:

I mean, if you wanna break down someone’s door, why don’t you start with AT&T, for Godsakes? They make your amazing phone unusable as a phone! I mean, seriously! How do you drop four calls in a one-mile stretch of the West Side Highway? There are no buildings around! What, does the open space confuse AT&T’s signal?

Heh. Heh, heh heh. Appholes.

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Last night’s The Daily Show did a great bit explaining Chatroulette in a segment featuring a Katie Couric, Diane Sawyer, Keith Olbermann, TDS staffers Wyatt Cynac and Jason Jones, and most hilariously, a sheepish Brian Williams.

Stewart basically informed the six people who might not know that Chatroulette is roughly 98% penis and 2% hilarity. Clip below:

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The Daily Show host Jon Stewart finished up a two-part series of interviews on Bill O’Reilly’s The O’Reilly Factor last night, and it made for some great, laugh-trackless watching as the two sparred over Iran, climate change, Khaled Sheik Mohammed does New York, and Sarah Palin.

O’Reilly starts off the interview under the premise that he’s vetting Stewart as a presidential running mate, opening a dialogue about climate change before the conversation turns to Iran. Stewart, thanking Fox News for “racheting up the fear” on the issue of Iran, calmly and consisely downplays fears of Iranian nuclear proliferation, and points out that overthrowing governments to stop tiny terrorist cells from attacking is a misguided strategy. As much as I love O’Reilly too, and I do- it’s really striking how Stewart knocks down all the Fox News talking points like so many straw men. O’Reilly’s gracious about the whole thing, trading barbs with Stewart in the way most New Yorkers knock each other in casual conversation, but Stewart really gets bitchy at points. He’s mostly right, though, so he gets away with it.

O’Reilly moves on to Khaled Sheik Mohammed and whether the 9/11 trials should be located in downtown Manhattan. O’Reilly cites the expense, to which Stewart replies that he’s glad O’Reilly’s “suddenly concerned about cost.” Stewart veers over towards the massive expense of the Iraq war (and ostensibly, the relatively minor worth of the invasion), and O’Reilly gamely apologizes for his earlier warmongering and the whole WMD thing. Back on KSM, Stewart dismisses concerns that the trial exposes NYC to a larger terrorist threat. The interview finishes up on the issue of Sarah Palin, and whether TDS has been unfair to Palin since her rise to notoriety. Instead of making an obvious joke, Stewart calls her out on her insistence that there are two Americas- her ‘real’ one and the rest of us, adroitly pointing out in a few words what it is that makes Palin a target for her many detractors. The video below is part two of the Stewart-O’Reilly showdown in its entirety.

On his own show last night, Stewart ragged on blogs a bit for their hyperbolic headlines in a segment called, “The Blogs Must Be Crazy.”

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“I’m not saying this is a plot by Hitler to steal Glenn Beck from all of us internal organ by internal organ by internal organ and then reprogram him to use as a weapon. But isn’t it fascinating that I’m the only one with the courage to ask these questions?”

(Note: Clip is long, but hilarious.)

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The interview, which went over 3 segments, confirmed Stewart as perhaps one of the few serious interviewers of our times. The irony in that statement is rich, but you have to watch it to understand.

To Jim Cramer’s credit, he took it mostly well, given some of the dummy spits he’s had this week on other shows, including Today.

Here’s the Jon Stewart Jim Cramer interview on The Daily Show over three parts.

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Jon Stewart had Rupert Murdoch biographer Michael Wolff on The Daily Show last night, and he didn’t hold back in letting the jokes fly in Murdoch’s direction.

Stewart called Murdoch humdrum and hormonal, a letdown from the Citizen Kane figure he’d been expecting and better still, a 14 year old girl.

The Jon Stewart Rupert Murdoch biographer Michael Wolff video below:

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Stephen Colbert appeared on Good Morning America this morning to talk A Colbert Christmas: The Greatest Gift of All and to offer a first look at his Christmas special.

Diane Sawyer played clips of the special, including one clip with Jon Stewart singing, and surprisingly Stewart can actually hold a note.

The special airs this Sunday November 23 on Comedy Central and the DVD goes on sale November 25. Full interview as follows:

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