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The Daily Show’s host Jon Stewart called out Elon Musk for proposing to sit down for an interview with him and backing out.
On Monday night’s (March 3) episode of The Daily Show, host Jon Stewart kicked the show off with a quip about injuring his finger the week before while critiquing tech billionaire Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) for cost-cutting attempts and wreaking havoc on the federal government. That led to Musk announcing in a post on X, formerly Twitter,

that he’d come on the Comedy Central show on one condition. “I will do it if it airs unedited.” Stewart quickly accepted. “Sure, we’d be delighted – as a matter of fact, let me sweeten the pot. The interview can be 15 minutes, it can be an hour, two hours,” he began before quipping, “’ll be honest, I don’t think this network makes any other programming, so we can do whatever the f—k we want as long as we wrap before the new season of ‘South Park,’ which comes out like May or June of 2026.”

But Stewart then mentioned seeing Musk’s follow-up posts on X where he attacked Stewart as being “very far left” and a “propagandist”,  highlighting them as he spoke on-air, concluding with Musk’s stating that he was “not bipartisan”. That led Stewart to fire back, “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 wasn’t done with his skewering of Musk. “I’m really not sure what he thinks “bipartisan” means, but it’s generally not, but it’s generally not, I support Donald Trump and also Germany’s AFD party That’s not bipartisan. That’s just the same s–t.”
The host stated that he does support more efforts toward government efficiency and that he has serious critiques of DOGE but isn’t interested in playing games. “If you want to come on and talk about it on the show, great. If you don’t want to, sure,” he said. “But 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? Because, quite frankly, that’s bull–t. You know it. I know it. Bull–t.”

Check out the entire monologue above.