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Last night, Jon Stewart appeared on The O’Reilly Factor with Bill O’Reilly for the second time. His last appearance, in 2004, was a pretty gentle back-and-forth bantering between two adult professional entertainers/pundits/broadcasters. But in the interim between the two episodes, Jon Stewart became a much larger pop culture icon, he took down CNN’s Crossfire, and he was seen as the arbiter of left-leaning truth for American men age 18-35, or whatever. (Of course, O’Reilly has been on the Daily Show a few times, but somehow this is so different. [?].) So there was much anticipation leading into last night’s face-off (not to be confused with Face/Off, which is a medial procedure). Would the sparks fly?! Would Jon Stewart detonate a FACTS bomb and destroy FOX News from the inside? Would Bill O’Reilly actually unveil a scimitar encased below his desk and behead Jon Stewart in front of the world? Would the difference between right and wrong finally be permanently delineated and immutable forever?
None of that. It turns out that both Jon Stewart and Bill O’Reilly remain professional, adult entertainers/pundits/broadcasters who are capable of talking to each other on television in mostly reasonable tones. But if you are still curious, you can see two adults being super adults after the jump:
Yeah, this seems about right. Isn’t it crazy how two famous rich people can even be in the room together?! N/N?
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I blame it on their lack of spray-tan. Pasty = BORING
Politics= boring.
Fuck IT! Well do it live with a loufa.
How you can leave out the part where Bill O’Reilly WON because the body language expert (a regular thing for the show) explained how submissive and meek Jon Stewart was in the face of O’Reilly’s awesomeness? That’s why O’Reilly is the grown-up, not because he repeated his half-a-decade old joke about TDS’s audience being only stoned slackers.
At first I thought you were dyslexic (STDs) but then I kept reading and realized I am ADD.
Is Face/Off a medial or medical procedure? Because, it seems to me having your face transplanted in a John Woo film is a lot of things; but it is certainly not average.
“I’ve wasted my entire life”
Girl who analyzes body language on the O’Reilly Factor
1978 – 2010
I know that we should all be so lucky as to find something that makes us truly happy, but…not this. Not being the Bill O’Reilly body language effort.
The United States of America, Ladies and Gentlemen.
I know this is completely antithetical to Gabe’s ideal of everyone making eloquent, well thought out, passionate statements but…I hope Dennis Miller and Bill O’Reilly share a cell in future jail.
I would like them to share a cell in Now Jail.
sooooooooooooooo….youI’ve got 2 options: you can be Nic Cage or John Travolta. What? You just want me to leave you faceless?
John Travolta now or 1974?
Go directly to 1997. Do not pass Saturday Night Fever.
Calling them adult entertainers makes them sound like strippers.
…and now I’m blind.
I think an interview between Jon Stewart and Glenn Beck would have made for much more compelling television. They can fight each other with “everyman barstools”.
Hold on a second there, Bill…. Glenn Beck is every man?!??? That means… I’M GLENN BECK!!!! Why did nobody tell me? You bastards.
O’Reilly.
Beck.
Stand-Up Comedy.
http://www.boldfreshtour.com/
Think Joe would take this one for the Team?
But I do like the part where Bill was surprised when Jon made good points… I mean, the guy’s been to college and everything, William & Mary even! I think he can use the word regulatory.
Your previous segments have all been wrong. Jon Stewart is my boyfriend.
Well, O’Reilly already has a leg up in the dirty talk arena.
ewwww.
I’m not saying O’Reilly is a festering boil covered penis, but he’s pretty much a festering boil covered penis. He’s always so hostile and combative. Jon Stewart is smart and handsome. What I like about the Daily Show is the fart jokes -no, I?m sorry- is the way Stewart has well informed conversations with his guests instead of goading them into arguments and belittling them.
I don?t often wish for real people to die so if you, Mr. O?Reilly, could have some sort of ?mouth accident? that results in your jaw being wired shut that would be great. It happened to Homer Simpson and it turns with his mouth closed he learned to open his ears. A lesson we can all take to heart. Thank you very much.
Is Face/Off gonna be covered under ObamaCare? Is that what the Teabaggers are so pissed off about?
After the interview, Stewart was uninvited from O’Reilly’s birthday party.
Unfriend! Facebook-off.
What I don’t understand is how anyone can watch O’Reilly and think what he says makes sense. Maybe humans are (d-)evolving into two sub-species, an idea supported by recent brain research (done by scientists!) that have shown the more fearful a person is, the more Conservative they are. Our brains are different, or become different through conditioning.
One group craves black and white choices, right and wrong, loves authority in all its forms (god, police, TV pundits), and fear what they don’t know or understand (neophobic). The other group is okay with nuances, shadings, complicated arguments, and reacts to new situations with calmness.
When I watch Stewart (or Colbert, or Olbermann) it’s like what they are saying is so obviously true it makes me feel like they have “won” the argument. And then I realize I don’t love the police (or Sting) and I don’t think god is going to sort everything out, and I feel happy to be a secular humanist.
TL;DR. I know.
Charming!
The editing in this interview sure was akin to “Face/Off.” Fast cuts abound. Apparently Fox spent a couple million to hire John Woo as Billo’s camera dude/loofa wringer.
I would like to go on a date with the O’Riely Factor Body Language Analysis Girl but I’d be so unbelieveably self conscious, like “Wait, I just asked you to pass the salt, that wasn’t a power gesture or anything just so you know…”
I’d give her a power gesture.
I am so sorry.
How does O’reily ask stewart if he is alienating his fans by being too harsh on obama, and then ask dennis milller if stewart is catering to what his viewers want to hear? god what an idiot
Glen Beck-The Everyman
Fuck politics.
Thanks to the inclement weather, I have much more time to prepare for my plan to bomb the venue.