Take 1 comedian, add politics, add the economy, fry an entertainment/economist TV talk guy this = ratings. Jon Stuart, the master of his own PR, faced off today with Mad Money TV host, Jim Cramer on Stuart’s Today Show.
Stuart described their feud as “the week-long feud of the century.” So grandiose of him! I thought Hilary’s & Barack’s was before Clinton conceded to Obama as the Dem’s presidential candidate. Oh Mr Stuart, how the ego is out of control! Still, brilliant TV! And props to Jon Stuart for that.
More importantly, what is Chris Matthews up to? lol! The Stuart vs Cramer face off, went down like this today….
Report by jake Coyle… thanks jack!
NEW YORK — Jon Stewart hammered Jim Cramer and his network, CNBC, in their anticipated face-off on “The Daily Show,” repeatedly chastising the “Mad Money” host for putting entertainment above journalism.
“I understand that you want to make finance entertaining, but it’s not a … game,” Stewart told Cramer, adding in an expletive during the show’s Thursday taping. The episode was scheduled to air at 11 p.m. EDT on Comedy Central.
It was perhaps the hardest lashing Stewart has given to a TV commentator since 2004 when he called Tucker Carlson and his then co-host Paul Begala “partisan hacks” on CNN’s “Crossfire,” the since canceled political commentary program.
The program opened in mock hype of the confrontation, which caught headlines through the week as each snipped at the other over the air. The show announced it as “the weeklong feud of the century.”
In his opening, Stewart announced that it was “go time.” He played a video clip of Cramer’s Thursday guest appearance on “The Martha Stewart Show” in which Cramer beat a mound of dough, pretending it was Stewart.
Said Stewart: “Mr. Cramer, don’t you destroy enough dough on your own show?”
Once Cramer came out for the interview, Stewart wondered: “How the hell did we get here?”
Cramer, his sleeves characteristically rolled up, said he was a “fan of the show.”
